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Unexpected Realities

Comics, Culture and Society in Contemporary Art at Figureworks in Brooklyn, New York, USA through 15 April 2018. Curated by Bruce Weber, the exhibition features the work of seven artists who engage in fascinating ways with the iconography of comic book superheroes and touch on our fixation and embrace of pop culture. Susan Newmark’s mixed media works integrate collage, paint, photo imagery, found objects and fragments from popular culture to explore narratives and storytelling, place, memory, nature, and the human body. MORE

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Surface/Depth

The Decorative after Miriam Schapiro at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York City, 22 March-9 September 2018. The exhibition showcases twenty-nine collage paintings by the pioneering feminist artist Miriam Schapiro in conversation with twenty-eight works by nine contemporary artists. Bringing into focus the key, but unheralded, role Schapiro played in the reframing of craft and decoration in the American art world, this juxtaposition of historic and contemporary work highlights ways in which the decorative continues to be utilized as a critical tool in art today. MORE

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THIS WEEK AT KOLAJ MAGAZINE

Cosmos, Constructions, and Rainbows

COLLAGE ON VIEW Bipartite Constructions: Scott Treleaven at Invisible-Exports in New York City

COLLAGE ON VIEW Rainbows & Butterflies: Jamie Rawlings at That Art Gallery in Bristol, England

COLLAGE ON VIEW Surface/Depth: The Decorative after Miriam Schapiro at the Museum of Arts & Design in New York

COLLAGE ON VIEW Any Instant Is the Cosmos: Jacqueline Dee Parker at the Baton Rouge Gallery in Louisiana

COLLAGE BOOKS Happiness to Go by Susanna Lakner from Redfoxpress  (image)

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Kolaj Magazine is the world’s only internationally-oriented art magazine dedicated to contemporary collage. Subscribe, order a copy, or collect back issues HERE

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Get with the Program

At Roman Fine Art in East Hampton, New York through 28 January 2018. Brooklyn Collage Collective member Lizzie Gill is part of this annual holiday group show which features works by nine artists. Gill's collage explores themes of retro Americana in a contemporary context. Through a variety of mediums she illustrates a time warp, composed of everyday life, human agency and "post feminist" contemporary society. MORE