Filed under: ART, PAPER, SCULPTURE | Tags: 22, angeles, california, hurtado, Lorenzo, los, magazine, paper, segovia, the, weaving
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“Falling Away” Poem by Andrew Daul “Go Back” Music by Shayna Dulberger Video by Shayna Dulberger and Andrew Daul July 2011 www.shaynadulberger.com
The Blindness of the Woods from amautalab on Vimeo.
amautalab.com Amautalab is a multidisciplinary creative studio based in Los Angeles, Seattle and Buenos Aires.
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Formerly called the Discovery/The Nation poetry contest, the Joan Leiman Jacobson Poetry Prizes are, for the fourth year, presented by Boston Review poetry editor Timothy Donnelly.
The four winners of the 2011 “Discovery”/Boston Review Poetry Contest are: Ansel Elkins, of Greensboro, NC; Angelo Nikolopoulos of New York, NY; Adam Roberts, of Iowa City, IA; and Solmaz Sharif, of Los Angeles, CA.
The three runners-up for 2011 are Xavier Cavazos of Ames, IA; Rebecca Lehmann of Tallahassee, FL; and Megan Williams of Boise, ID.
At their reading on May 9, the winners will be introduced by Timothy Donnelly, Cornelius Eady and D. A. Powell (subject to change).
Filed under: INTERVIEWS | Tags: 22, 35mm, angeles, art, Ba-ra-kei: Ordeal by Roses, barcelon, BFA, bike, blue, Bovary, brooklyn, Canada, center, cereal, chong, colalge, collage, college, color, cutting, department, DESIGN, Eikoh, ephmera, ethan, film, Flaubert, form, Fritz, Frome, gallery, Gothic churches, green, Guido Reni, Hosoe, howtosplitanatom.com, hunt, illustration, ink, KCET, knif, letterpress, letters, local, los, madame, magazine, new, ny, nyc, of, of paper, old, ophelia, Orson Welles, painting, paper, Paul Rand, photography, press, presses, pressing, rep, Sauter, series, slide work, slides, slips, st. louis, station, surreal, the, three-speed, toronto, TV, typography, university, vandercook, webster, Wharton, work, x-acto, york, [Richard] Neutra
22: First the background questions, where did you grow up and how did you get involved with art?
OPHELIA CHONG:I grew up in the wilds of Canada, in the city of Toronto. I remember my first collage, in grade five; it was a collage made of magazine bits and it was blue and green. During my formative years I was an explorer, I would ride my bike from mid-town to the lake and back; I would disappear for a whole day, exploring the city on my three-speed bike. I quickly outgrew Toronto and packed up and left for Los Angeles. I went to the Art Center College of Design and graduated with a BFA in Painting. I am an adjunct professor there in the Photography Dept.
OPHELIA CHONG: I love seeing the possibilities of color. Of using the pieces of paper as paint, my X-acto knife the brush.
22: What about the fusion of collage and design appeals to you? Are they really just versions of the same thing?
OPHELIA CHONG: It’s all the same thing, I see it all as color and form, no matter what medium it is.
22: You also seem to have a penchant for typography and presses where did that start?
OPHELIA CHONG: Shapes, I love the curves of typography. When I was younger I would sit in class sketching serif fonts. I loved the thin with the thick, the swoosh and staccato of forms in typography. When I first used a Vandercook Press six years ago, I was hooked. I love the ink pressing into the paper, the randomness of where the letters fell onto pieces of ephemera that I put through the press. How each piece was a singular piece of art. Never to be repeated twice. I use only vintage magazines to print on, therefore each piece is non-repeatable.
22: Can you explain your 35mm slide work (surreal cereal) process a little? What inspired working with collage this way? Any specific artists?
22:Who are some of your favorite designers or artists in general?
OPHELIA CHONG:All art from the 16th – 18th century. Fritz Sauter ( a Swiss printmaker), 15th century Gothic churches, Orson Welles, Paul Rand, [Richard] Neutra, music for the clavichord, the flavor of the week and anything that makes me want to grab an X-acto knife.
22: How did you start working on the slips of paper series? What was your first collage for that?
OPHELIA CHONG: I started in 1999, but if I had to trace it back, since I could use scissors. I picked up a small Moleskine sketch book in 1999 and started sticking bits of paper in it to relieve the stress I was going through at my job as a Creative Director. I filled books and books with “slips of paper”, not really going towards an end goal, just to keep myself from the digital world. All my work is non-digital.
22: How do you balance your professional life with your artistic career, do the two ever clash? Or do they enhance each other?
OPHELIA CHONG: I melded both into one. I have a rep in NYC for my illustration, and I now have a studio that I sit in all day working. I love it. Work = Love = Happiness
22:What are you currently working on? Any upcoming projects?
OPHELIA CHONG: I am writing more, I write commentary for KCET ( a local TV station in Los Angeles) and for howtosplitanatom.com . I have work traveling from Barcelona to NYC, it will take 2 years to finish my travels. My letterpress work is at the Hunt Gallery at Webster University in St.Louis. My project now is to keep cutting paper and I know I will never tire of it; the only time I get into trouble is when I cut up something someone was still reading. Never leave anything you want to read around me, it just might end up in a collage.
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Filed under: ART, THE WEEK/THE WEEKEND | Tags: 22, 303, 303 Gallery, abstract, and Jane and Louise Wilson., angeles, Anne Chu, art, Art Museum of the University of Houston, Art21, Aus, avenue, Öresund sound, Österjon, Blaffer Gallery, blue ocean, Brea, brooklyn, CA, california, Ceal Floyer, clear skies, Collier Schorr, Contemporary, cousins, Der, Djordje Ozbolt, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Doug Aitken, drawing, Eva Rothschild, fertile fields, FLAG Art Foundation, Florian, Florian Maier-Aichen, from, gallery, Germany and Los Angeles, Hammer Museum Los Angeles, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Hven, in, Inka Essenhigh, Jeppe Hein, Karel Funk, Karen Kilimnik, Kenneth, Kristin Oppenheim, la, landscapes, Laylah Ali, London UK and others. Maier-Aichen lives and works in Cologne, los, magazine, Maier-Aichen, Mary Heilmann, Maureen Gallace, Mike Nelson, minimalism, mountain, movie, Museo, Museum, nature's, new, New York, Nick Mauss, Noland, ny, nyc, ocean, of, otherwordly, painting, paintings, Parrish and Grey Gallery, peak, photography, photoshop, rainbow, Rodney Graham, Saatchi Gallery / Royal Academy of Arts, set-like western, snow, Spaziergang, Stephen Shore, Sue Williams, surreal, texas, the, Thyseen-Bornemisza, Tim Gardner, transcendence, transcendent, Valentin Carron, Ven, york
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