Analog collage on board, 10 x 11 in.
Andrew Rice's collages, meticulously crafted from vintage comic books, fuse diverse fragments to reflect overlooked realities. Serving as a distinctive prism to our globalized age, these vibrant tapestries resonate with profound significance. Amidst the spectral presence of unrealized futures, his work becomes a pulsating echo of our cultural history. Through Rice's transformative collages, we traverse the nebulous boundary between memory and reality, led by his innovative and discerning comic-inspired lens.
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Analog collage on board, 10 x 10 in.
I have been approaching this body of work through the theme of lost futures. It reflects on the enthusiasm and hopefulness of the futures that were promised. We now find ourselves in that future and it is not the future that was assured.
Analog collage on board, 9 x 12 in.
[I typically work with] comic books from my youth. After exhausting my personal collection, I seek out comics from eBay/Etsy, local antique stores, etc. The print quality, the color palettes, and especially the paper quality are all key components of the books from this era that are critical in my work. Also, a box of Xacto #11 blades.
Analog collage on board, 8 x 10 in.
Analog collage on board, 8 x 10 in.
'I don't seek out any specific imagery in most of my work. I go through each book one by one, page by page and let the imagery find me. Find - Cut - Paste - Repeat, ad infinitum.
Analog collage on board, 8 x 10 in.
Collage is the medium for the early millennium to capture the ideas of Capital Realism and Hauntology. Just like music, cinema are re-hashing the successes of the past, collage is how contemporary artists are making sense of the world in a world of lost futures. In a neoliberal globalized world, our entire culture is a mash-up of what came before and collage is the medium to best reflect that. Images carry weight and power and over time, a history and visual information is one of the primary ways we remember the past. Collage is a way to utilize this embedded, fractured history to create new narratives. I don’t approach the blank ‘canvas’ with any idea of what the piece might look like upon creation and instead let the pieces create themselves through an unconscious and subconscious method. ‘Find, cut, paste. Find, cut, paste, find cut paste, findcutpaste…
Analog collage on board, 6 x 8 in.
Andrew Rice was in born 1982 in Aspen, Colorado. He is currently based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
Brendan Donnelly is a collector of things. Prints, news clippings and various ephemera that he has accumulated over a 30-year span, which he uses to create provocative reflections of celebrity culture. His multi-disciplinary practice often floats from writing to painting to performance and back again — always carrying a penchant for humor as he creates between the worlds of fine art and lowbrow culture.
Anna Tsouhlarakis works in sculpture, installation, video, and performance. She received her BA from Dartmouth College with degrees in Native American Studies and Studio Art. She went on to receive her MFA from Yale University in Sculpture.
Lauri Hopkins’ work crosses disciplines but primarily involves painting, collage, and the re-assembling of discarded materials. Lauri’s inspiration often comes from mid-century architecture and design, the history of abstract art, and objects that have fallen out of use. Created from an open and responsive place, bodies of work become a visual diary.
Visual artist Sarah Darlene explores the functionality of abstraction through a feminine, queer and contemporary perspective. While she primarily identifies as a painter, Darlene often uses different tools that serve as a substitute for paint, ranging from fabrics like bedsheets and clothing to more organic objects like wood, seeds, and sand.
The Club Lettera vision is the brainchild of Robert Aloe. Each work is an open letter reflecting concepts strictly of found items. The envelope is the root of all delivery of these messages and is consistent in each work. The envelope also is not seen as a piece of trash in most cases, but the messenger of this open letter to the viewer. The theme is usually derived by specific musical track and occasionally contain lyrics from those songs.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Arrangements by Carmen Winant
This book of multivalent narratives began with a simple premise: the collection of sheets of paper—ripped from books—featuring multiple photographs and inlaid narratives. Across a decade of working on other projects involving pulling images apart from one another, excising them from the page and recontextualizing them as new sets, American artist Carmen Winant (born 1983) diligently collected disparate sheets, skimming them off the top of her other ongoing collections.
WATCH
Robert Rauschenberg by MOCA
Artist Harry Dodge, USC Professor of Art History Megan R. Luke and MOCA Chief Curator Helen Molesworth discuss Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines. In these works, Rauschenberg removes the boundaries between painting and sculpture and turns his attention toward exploring the shared spaces between art and life.
LISTEN
Ralph Castelli - Bends
Ralph Castelli is a Los Angeles based singer, songwriter and producer. His disarming approach blends pop, with hip-hop and electronica to form a style uniquely his own.
Multimedia cover art by Ralph Castelli.
