Digital collage, 13 x 13 in.
Cristina Lavilla's collage compositions are meticulously crafted from geometric forms and fragmented visual elements, harmoniously blending abstraction with the principles of color theory. By teasing apart objects, people, and words, she draws viewers into her dreamlike world. Each piece is a well-crafted invitation into her imaginative universe.
Digital collage, 13 x 13 in.
"Collage is a way of free exploration, which allows me to deploy and rethink new scenarios and meanings. By combining elements and images that apparently do not match, it is possible to generate new and infinite realities."
Digital collage, 13 x 13 in.
"I always work based on some concept, both when creating more personal collages and when working on design commissions. I start by analyzing the proposal and conducting initial research and image selection from my visual archive. I love this part of the process and analog composition, flipping through pages and tearing them out in search of images that will help shape my ideas. Once I have all the materials, I make a second selection to narrow down the choices, and then I scan them to work on the collage digitally. Typically, I like to play with one or two main figures combined with flat and geometric elements that repeat. As I develop the composition, the color palette that will encompass the final piece also emerges very intuitively."
Digital collage, 13 x 13 in.
Digital collage, 10 x 13 in.
"I mainly work with second-hand materials, both books and magazines. I enjoy acquiring publications of various topics, ranging from fashion, science and history magazines to animal sticker albums or graphic design and photography manuals. Although a large part of my material is in paper form, I also like to capture textures I find on the street with my mobile phone, such as torn posters or graphic elements and typographies."
Digital collage, 10 x 13 in.
As a collagist, she creates orderly and geometric compositions, straddling the line between analog and digital work, generating small universes where figurative elements, textures, and graphic registers coexist amidst voids and solids. All of this is embraced by a carefully crafted color palette, which is the great protagonist of her works. Throughout the creative process, she likes to experiment with different concepts using just the right amount of material, exploring all the possibilities that come with the limitation and repetition of a few elements combined.
Courtesy of Cristina Lavilla
Paper collage, 10 x 15 cm
Cristina Lavilla was in born Tarragona, Spain in 1990, where she continues to work today.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Andrea Mortson is a Canadian collage artist and painter. Her practice, in both mediums, is a careful process of worrying about the future. This involves questioning the role of images and artists in the complex relationship between individual and collective experience, the inherent hubris of passive consumption and the promotion of nostalgia and escapism for power.
Jen Klinedinst is a mixed media and collage artist based out of Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up in a small town in Pennsylvania they spent a lot of time enveloped by nature, daydreaming and creating lots of different forms of art. With their experimental collage approach they like to play with abstract shapes, color, texture and composition to create something of a dream like stream of consciousness. Working primarily with vintage magazine scraps, oil pastels and other found materials they hope to connect with others through the visual emotions present in their work.
Joseph Coniff received an MFA from the University of Delaware, Newark and a BFA from Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design. His work has been included in New American Paintings, Creative Quarterly, Studio Visit Magazine, and Vogue Espana among others. Coniff has been called one of Denver’s most notable emerging artists and has received numerous awards and recognition in the Denver press.
Eli Craven is an artist based in Lafayette, Indiana where he is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Purdue University. Craven’s research resides in the critical investigation of the image and its relationship to ideologies of sexuality, desire, and death. His work is exhibited nationally and internationally, most recently at KlompChing Gallery in Brooklyn, New York, at the South Bend Museum of Art's 31st Biennial, and at Feinkunst Krüger Gallery in Hamburg, Germany.
Vanessa Woods' collages utilize disparate associations to re-imagine and re-contextualize contemporary and historical narratives. In each piece that she creates, the original image is decontextualized through the act of cutting and it’s meaning re-contextualized through new associations. In her current body of work, titled Vestiges, Woods uses the birth of her children as the genesis for an expansive project exploring the maternal body and the conditions of motherhood.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Vitamin C+: Collage in Contemporary Art
"Over 100 global artists working with collage, as chosen by a team of art experts – an indispensable who's who of the most exciting and innovative names working in the medium."
A must have in the library of any collage artist. Includes an introductory essay by Yuval Etgar.
WATCH
How to make collage | IN THE STUDIO
An overview of fundamental collage techniques, key for any beginner and valuable reminders for any expert.
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LISTEN
Allah-Las — Could Be You (2016)
"A great example of what audiences the world over have discovered about the unique powers the Allah-Las hold over the craft of wistful, golden-hour guitar pop."
Multimedia collage cover art by Matt Correira and Robbie Simon.
