Collaged album covers mounted to wood panel, 7 x 5 in.
Travis Medford's collages materialize through the intuitive rearrangement of ephemera into abstract formations. These compositions embrace the element of chance while adhering to a purposefully formal organization. Steeped in notions of entropy, his artworks serve as visual poetry, fostering a meditative examination of how identity and experience are reconstructed through collage.
Collage and acrylic on paper, 5.5 x 3.5 in.
"My collage practice concerns reordering ephemera into small abstractions. The process invites chance and intuitive choices while still being mindful of a formal composition. I am interested in themes such as scale, entropy and language. Each of my works can be considered visual poems."
Collage and acrylic on paper, 5.5 x 3.5 in.
"Most sessions begin with a review of available source materials. Sorting through boxes of scraps until a particular image, color or shape catches my attention. Books and magazines are also available for cutting and sourcing. Sometimes a collage is done in one session. At other times I arrange elements and sit with them before committing to a permanent arrangement. I try to harness what intuitive energy is available during each session."
paper collage 4.5 x 6.5 in.
Collaged album covers mounted to wood panel, 7 x 5 in.
"Entropy is a theme I’m most often thinking about. Collage embodies the idea of a destruction of forms to create new ones. This transformation of forms is ever-present when I collage. The reordering of the familiar into the unfamiliar. I’m always seeking the mysteries of the unfamiliar."
Collage and acrylic on paper, 5.5 x 3.5 in.
"As technology advances, I think collage will be in the conversation. Certain AI applications allow for the combining of various sources into a seamless image for better or for worse. However, I think as long as printed images are still a part of our landscape there will be artists using them for analog collage."
Paper collage 4.5” x 6.5"
Travis Medford was born in 1973. He is currently based in Asheville, North Carolina, USA.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Kim Beck is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose work explores the everydayness of disaster. Moving fluidly between weaving, photography, print, drawing, sculpture, and installation, she employs a wry humor and curiosity to ask questions about our place in the everyday landscape.
Matias Faldbakken (b. 1973, Hobro, Denmark) sources and re-contextualizes images from advertising, literature, art history, and pop culture, and manipulates mass-produced objects to examine how visual information is endlessly multiplied, transmuted and undermined in the digital age.
Evariste Richer constantly invents new standards for measurement which are mostly objects to prompt the spectator's potential investigations: avalanche probes, a meter drawn from memory, a meter with no measurements… Meteorology, science, magic, mineralogy, photography, optics are his preferred terrains.
Scott Myles is a Scottish artist based in Glasgow, UK. His practice is strongly gestural and consists of sculpture, painting, printmaking, artist’s books, photography and performance-based projects: a kind of reactivation of ideas relating to the value of art and social reality by means of reusing already established codes.
Olaf Metzel, born in 1952, ranks among the most distinguished artists in contemporary Germany. His diverse body of work spans large-scale public sculptures, drawings, and reliefs consisting of contorted silkscreen prints on delicate metal plates. Additionally, Metzel's work includes a variety of interventions, demonstrating his complex artistic narrative and engagement with space.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Artist Rooms: Jannis Kounellis
Jannis Kounellis was a pioneering figure of the Italian arte povera movement, which emphasized using everyday materials to bridge art with daily life. His works often juxtaposed contrasting materials like wood and steel or glass and coal, reflecting the tensions between tradition and innovation during Italy’s period of rapid change.
VISIT
Punctum by Anselm Kiefer
April 25 – July 3
Gagosian presents "Punctum," the first U.S. exhibition dedicated solely to Anselm Kiefer's photography. Since 1968, Kiefer has utilized photography to influence his paintings and books, though this aspect of his work has often been overlooked.
LISTEN
Sen Am by Duval Timothy
This recording interweaves tones of jazz piano with WhatsApp voice notes, encapsulating Timothy's bicultural journey between Sierra Leone and the United Kingdom. The album meditates on the function of technology in sustaining global relationships, providing a distinctive perspective on contemporary modes of connection.
