paper collage Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 04 Feb 2020 07:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour https://mobispirit.com/maria-rivans-collage-art-is-homage-to-old-hollywood-glamour/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:35:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=20941 Maria Rivans’ collage art stems from a love of vintage ephemera. Having collected over the years an impressive collection of antique books and retro magazines, she cuts out fragments and scraps which form the basis of her work. The work itself, she admits, is not unlike piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle. As such, it […]

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]]> Maria Rivans’ collage art stems from a love of vintage ephemera. Having collected over the years an impressive collection of antique books and retro magazines, she cuts out fragments and scraps which form the basis of her work. The work itself, she admits, is not unlike piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

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]]> Hollie Chastain’s Collages Use Old Photos and Book Pages https://mobispirit.com/hollie-chastains-collages-use-old-photos-and-book-pages/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:39:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=20833 Hollie Chastain, a paper artist and illustrator from Chattanooga, Tennessee, comes from a graphic design and classical art background. She says that texture is very important in her work, so her creations start with an “analog foundation.” Since 2008 she has been using pieces of vintage photographs and book pages to create her creative collages. […]

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]]> Hollie Chastain, a paper artist and illustrator from Chattanooga, Tennessee, comes from a graphic design and classical art background. She says that texture is very important in her work, so her creations start with an “analog foundation.” Since 2008 she has been using pieces of vintage photographs and book pages to create her creative collages.

“Vintage book covers became a favorite substrate. I fell in love with the scribbles, stamps, library and school identification, water and ink marks and all the other visual history and how that added to and sometimes altered the composition of the piece,” the artist told Colossal and added that during her career she has been working with well-known brands and clients.

Her artwork is inspired by folklore, music and “the unknown.” Chastain has also published a book titled If You Can Cut You Can Collage which was released back in 2017.

If you want to see her work, just keep on scrolling, or follow her on Instagram for more.

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Hello, all! And welcome, new friends. Over the last few days I've had a lot of questions come in about my paper weaving process so I went back into the very official studio documentation archives (random stuff on my phone) and found a few early images. This was the first woven piece that I put together and it wasn't planned out in advance. I was just antsy and bored from winter days and wanted to settle into a tedious process and started weaving together all the scraps and clippings on my desktop at the time. The textures are fun to build up and patterns and shapes reveal themselves in surprising ways as you go. I'll be teaching a series of workshops this coming year and this process will be a large part of that including a whole week at @arrowmont_school in July. Registration is open now and you can find that link through their website or it's also linked on the workshop page on my site in my profile. I'll keep all upcoming dates there and if you have a favorite space that offers classes in your area and want me to check it out let me know and we'll see if we can get it set up!

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]]> ersion="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> paper collage Archives - MobiSpirit MobiSpirit Tue, 04 Feb 2020 07:03:38 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Maria Rivans’ Collage Art is Homage to Old Hollywood Glamour https://mobispirit.com/maria-rivans-collage-art-is-homage-to-old-hollywood-glamour/ Thu, 06 Feb 2020 16:35:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=20941 Maria Rivans’ collage art stems from a love of vintage ephemera. Having collected over the years an impressive collection of antique books and retro magazines, she cuts out fragments and scraps which form the basis of her work. The work itself, she admits, is not unlike piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle. As such, it […]

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]]> Maria Rivans’ collage art stems from a love of vintage ephemera. Having collected over the years an impressive collection of antique books and retro magazines, she cuts out fragments and scraps which form the basis of her work. The work itself, she admits, is not unlike piecing together an unruly jigsaw puzzle.

As such, it requires much time and patience, assembling the pieces together until a collage begins to take shape. With attention to beauty and to the harmony of composition, her works allow for an optimistic understanding of a world in which different shapes and forms come together as one.

Intertwining different film and TV genres, from vintage Hollywood to 1970s sci-fi, B-movies, and TV trash, Rivans’ work is in a constant dialogue with cultures of the past, reinventing existing film plots and narratives while spinning bizarre and dreamlike tales. The result is a sort of hybrid between Surrealism and Pop-Art—a reflection of Rivans’ sources of inspiration and natural inclination to the quirky and the unusual.

Her creations range in sizes, from large-scale originals to smaller, limited edition prints. Each is the product of months of careful deliberations and decisions—all aimed at creating that delicate balance of composition.

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]]> Hollie Chastain’s Collages Use Old Photos and Book Pages https://mobispirit.com/hollie-chastains-collages-use-old-photos-and-book-pages/ Tue, 04 Feb 2020 11:39:00 +0000 https://mobispirit.com/?p=20833 Hollie Chastain, a paper artist and illustrator from Chattanooga, Tennessee, comes from a graphic design and classical art background. She says that texture is very important in her work, so her creations start with an “analog foundation.” Since 2008 she has been using pieces of vintage photographs and book pages to create her creative collages. […]

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]]> Hollie Chastain, a paper artist and illustrator from Chattanooga, Tennessee, comes from a graphic design and classical art background. She says that texture is very important in her work, so her creations start with an “analog foundation.” Since 2008 she has been using pieces of vintage photographs and book pages to create her creative collages.

“Vintage book covers became a favorite substrate. I fell in love with the scribbles, stamps, library and school identification, water and ink marks and all the other visual history and how that added to and sometimes altered the composition of the piece,” the artist told Colossal and added that during her career she has been working with well-known brands and clients.

Her artwork is inspired by folklore, music and “the unknown.” Chastain has also published a book titled If You Can Cut You Can Collage which was released back in 2017.

If you want to see her work, just keep on scrolling, or follow her on Instagram for more.

View this post on Instagram

Hello, all! And welcome, new friends. Over the last few days I've had a lot of questions come in about my paper weaving process so I went back into the very official studio documentation archives (random stuff on my phone) and found a few early images. This was the first woven piece that I put together and it wasn't planned out in advance. I was just antsy and bored from winter days and wanted to settle into a tedious process and started weaving together all the scraps and clippings on my desktop at the time. The textures are fun to build up and patterns and shapes reveal themselves in surprising ways as you go. I'll be teaching a series of workshops this coming year and this process will be a large part of that including a whole week at @arrowmont_school in July. Registration is open now and you can find that link through their website or it's also linked on the workshop page on my site in my profile. I'll keep all upcoming dates there and if you have a favorite space that offers classes in your area and want me to check it out let me know and we'll see if we can get it set up!

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