Travis Egedy, operating under the moniker PICTUREPLANE, has emerged as a distinguished figure within the creative scene. His practice transcends auditory boundaries to encompass visual art and fashion design, notably through his innovative Alien Body brand. Egedy's work critically engages with the appropriation of fashion brands, integrating these elements into his broader artistic discourse. He envisions a forward-facing landscape for collage, mirroring the dynamic interplay between music, art, and fashion.
Collage to me is alchemy. Combining unrelated elements, colors, emotions, images, sonic textures, and holographic shards of the past to create something entirely new.
I think a lot of my work touches on different layers of human consciousness. And of time, history, deterioration and dismantling of power structures and organized belief systems, optimism, spirituality, popular culture vs subculture and underground communities. It speaks about what is hidden.
Some of my recent series for my "prismatic goth" exhibition were all based on images I was collecting on my iPhone from the various decaying crypts and graveyards around Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The ideas of Genesis P Orridge on collage and sampling in music definitely reinforced my deep fascination with the practice.
Travis Egedy was born in 1985 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He is currently based in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
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Linder Sterling, commonly known as Linder, is a British artist known for her photography, radical feminist photomontage and confrontational performance art. She was also the former front-woman of Manchester based post-punk group Ludus. In 2017, Sterling was honored with the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Award.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge was an English singer-songwriter, musician, poet, performance artist, visual artist, and occultist who rose to notoriety as the founder of the COUM Transmissions artistic collective and lead vocalist of seminal industrial band Throbbing Gristle.
Astral Eyes, formerly known as owleyes, is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work is deeply rooted in ritual and mysticism, serving as a conduit for the divine. His process involves meditative divination and the channeling of positive energies, imbuing his collages with a subtle essence of the unseen. This unique approach not only distinguishes his art but also seeks to bridge the gap between the viewer and the divine consciousness.
Collage by Brion Gysin and William S. Burroughs. Brion Gysin was a British-Canadian painter, writer, sound poet, performance artist and inventor of experimental devices. He is best known for his use of the cut-up technique, alongside his close friend, the novelist William S. Burroughs.
Though informally related to the Dada and Surrealist movements, the American artist Man Ray contributed impressively to avant-garde, fashion and portrait photography, in particular with his solarised and isomorphic portraits of Lee Miller. Ray’s photomontages play with femininity and form, as in his multiple exposures of Alice Prin, better known as Kiki de Montparnasse, and Dora Maar.
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What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
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Rediscovering Hisae Imai’s Otherworldly Vision
Hisae Imai’s life and work embodied a kind of imaginative ambiguity. Her story reveals the most intimate seams between artifice and longing, ecstasy and tragedy. Throughout the late 1950s and the 1960s, she produced a staggering array of experimental imagery, for both personal projects and fashion commissions, establishing herself as the young darling of Japan’s avant-garde photography scene.
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Carol Armstrong on the art of Ellen Gallagher
Within “All of No Man’s Land Is Ours,” the vivid pinkness of Gallagher’s two most recent works suggests a different kind of antithesis to the monochrome blackness of the black paintings: Among other things, it acts as a strong refutation of modernist “chromophobia.”
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Pictureplane - Circles
Travis Egedy, under the moniker Pictureplane, blends light and dark, chaos and melody in his music, embodying resilience and hope amidst a complex world. His work encourages perseverance through its emotional and narrative depth.