Décollage and plastic slide mounts, 4.5” x 4.5”
Katie Wolf's work is an exploration of creation through destruction, using techniques like ripping and cutting to form unique relationships between materials. Her collage approach highlights the decay of found objects, urging viewers to forge connections and narratives. With nods to art history and archival practices, Wolf questions the reliability of memory and the human urge to preserve individual experiences.
Analog collage and plastic slide mounts, 4.5” x 2”
To me, nostalgia and sentimentality connect my body of work. These themes show up, especially in the slide collages, which are carefully composed inside archival slide frames — some of which have my great-grandfather’s handwriting on them. He died long before I was born, yet I often feel nostalgic for the imagery and energy of the memories from his photographs. I’m fascinated by how and why he, and others, so meticulously organized and cataloged images.
Analog collage and cardboard slide mounts, 4.5” x 2”
I envy artists with a specific rhythm to their art-making practice. I typically make work in unpredictable bursts — usually late at night when I’m alone in my studio space. I spend a lot of time just flipping through materials I’ve collected and enjoying the visuals. Connections between materials tend to form naturally, and I try not to force the process from there.
Analog collage and cardboard slide mounts, 2" x 7"
Analog collage and cardboard slide mounts, 2.5" x 4.5"
The materials I use come from three distinct places: archival materials like slide frames, art history references, and décollage - layer after layer of posters and wheat paste from city streets. In all cases, I’m interested in decay and how nostalgia fuels our efforts to preserve our memories.
Analog collage and cardboard slide mounts, 2" x 7"
Paul Bright, a collage artist and mentor, gave me my first impression of collage. His work and dedication to the medium has had a significant impact on my work and creative process. I’ve also been encouraged and inspired by the work of Vensa Pavlović. Vensa’s work inspired my interest in archival materials, memory, and nostalgia.
Analog collage and cardboard slide mounts, 7" x 2"
Katie Wolf was born in 1991 in North Carolina, USA where she is still based.
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Deborah Turbeville (1932-2013) was a trailblazing American artist and photographer, credited with revolutionizing fashion imagery in the 1970s from its roots in the staid commercial to avant-garde art. Her work is collected by esteemed institutions including the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Centre Pompidou, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, the National Portrait Gallery in London and the Victoria & Albert Museum, among many others.
Tavares Strachan’s artistic practice activates the intersections of art, science, and politics, offering uniquely synthesized points of view on the cultural dynamics of scientific knowledge. Aeronautics, astronomy, deep-sea exploration, and extreme climatology are but some of the thematic arenas out of which Strachan creates monumental allegories that tell of cultural displacement, human aspiration, and mortal limitation.
Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She grew up in the Dominican Republic, earning Associate’s Degrees from La Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in Santo Domingo in 2009 and Altos de Chavón School of Design in 2011 before returning to NYC for her BFA from Parsons New School for Design in 2013. Through photography, video, installation, and performance, Minaya interrogates tropical motifs found in popular culture and reveals how such motifs have been used to exotify Caribbean women.
Aikaterini Gegisian is a visual artist and researcher. Her expanded photographic and moving image practice examines the role of diverse image histories in the production of gender and cultural identities. In 2015, she was one of the exhibiting artists at the Armenian Pavilion, 56th Biennale di Venezia, which received the Golden Lion for best national participation.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
READ
Deborah Roberts: Twenty Years of Art/Work
Deborah Roberts: 20 Years of Art/Work provides the definitive look at the artist’s practice over the past two decades. With newly commissioned texts and a thorough dive into Roberts’ archive, this monograph offers a comprehensive view of one of today’s most significant artists and social observers.
WATCH
Sara Cwynar Transforms the Lady Dior into an Encyclopedic Object
Witness the Dior Lady Art creations of Sara Cwynar come to life in this video tracing the inspirations behind the bags, namely the visual politics of popular images. The New York-based Canadian artist for this seventh edition of the project revisits the Lady Dior as an encyclopedic object covered in patches of images sourced from museum archives and art history books.
LISTEN
Mod Prog Sic by Black Dice
Black Dice is an American experimental noise music band based in Brooklyn, consisting of brothers Bjorn and Eric Copeland along with Aaron Warren. Formed in 1997, the group was initially inspired by hardcore and noise rock, but subsequently shifted toward the extensive use of signal processing, effects units, and electronic instrumentation.
