collage
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The deceptively simple work is part sculpture, part assemblage, part collage and features a vintage wooden ironing board set beside a white sheet hung on a line with six wooden clothespins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Saar’s dear friend, artist and jeweler Neil Lane, recalls how she taught him to collage: slowly layering papers with matte medium and, of course, saving every scrap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Mr. Moore, who has created acclaimed comic books and fiction, draws on all his talents in crafting this lurid collage of English culture past, present and future.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
In the 1980s Hockney invented a kind of photo collage he dubbed "joiners" that used slightly different images to produce a patchwork akin to the cubist painting of his hero Pablo Picasso.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Wrestling with my body to assume an upward arrangement, I saw a collage of Negro, Mexican and white races outside the windows.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
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Ever since he began snapping Polaroids in the 1960s, Hockney maintained an intense relationship with photography, taking thousands of pictures and using some in collages and other works.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026
In the ’80s came his extraordinary multi-image photographic collages of friends including writer Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy and such landmarks as the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
Portraits, politically charged tabletop collages and quiet photographs that capture the simple vibrance of daily life are strewn across Regen’s 20,000 square feet of gallery space.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 17, 2026
In his later years he became bed bound and focused on creating cut paper collages.
From BBC ● Nov. 28, 2025
Ana's collages had been shown by famous galleries in San Francisco and New York and Mexico City for years, but in the last few months she'd sold work to three different museums.
From "We Are Okay" by Nina LaCour
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A collaged print by Liu Shiyuan presents a dizzying array of images—fruit, bees, jellyfish, shrouded figures, fabric samples—that is more disorienting than anything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
As a writer, he showed a distinct wit and emotional insight, and he grew into one of the band’s most prolific pens — the collaged pop-lyric conceit of “Better Than Words” was his idea.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2024
But GenAI can do more than create collaged images and help write emails -- it can also design new drugs to treat disease.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
At the diagonally opposite corner of the country, romantic notions of woodland collaged with vibrant crimson on crisp-autumn mornings are unlike almost anywhere else on earth.
From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2023
I continue to turn the pages of my mother's beauty book, devouring everything: ink drawings, rouge-stick color smudges, flower petals, and collaged petit-paintings; beauty pamphlets, spintria prices, diagrams of women's bodies.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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His collaging instincts are still present, but here his visions are laced with a mystery that draws us in.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
Certainly, if you're at home collaging a vision board for fun with your friends, that sounds like a blast.
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2024
Mixing, collaging, generating new things by constellating old things — it’s all part of the creative churn.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2023
Javadi incorporates similar techniques, collaging swaths of colorfully patterned fabric with black-and-white archival images of elegantly dressed, bareheaded women.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 24, 2022
You’re not collaging together your creativity on the road with little fragments — I’ve been able to work with a greater sense of singularity.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2022
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