collage
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It offers a somewhat surreal vision of the Western U.S. and the many contradictions it contains—fame and loneliness, rural and urban, traditional and contemporary—in a sumptuous if disjointed collage.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
In the center of this collage is a giant, stern-faced Chávez.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 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
And two ballpoint pens—the top halves filled with water in which a cut-out collage of a London streetscape was suspended.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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Through the 1970s and early 80s, her work depicted uncharacteristically dark series' of collages in which she embraced the imagery of natural life cycles.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
In the 1970s, he became intrigued by the Polaroid camera, making hundreds of collages which played with space and perspective.
From BBC ● 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
And Shane Keisuke Berkery addresses his Irish-Japanese heritage with a painting that collages exaggerated images drawn from westerns, Irish photographic history, and his own family’s snapshots.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
He likes to cut out the cartoons and make collages.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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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
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
Formats include thickly bound volumes, individual collaged sheets and framed grids that repeat the same image 20 or 30 times.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
“Armstrong archives and recontextualizes his public life by hand, to be layered and collaged onto the walls of his private life,” she said.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2023
Their floors were always collaged with stray bits of paper, and trapped flies waved for help from the gummy killing fields of their tabletops.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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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
Questions of what people own, and control are increasingly supplanted by questions of who or what people are, replacing clashes of classes with the collaging of identities and morals.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 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
So I was painting on the walls, I was collaging.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2022
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