Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 179 (Novato)

Finally getting around to posting the last of the four collages I made while co-teaching a class with Suzanne Jacquot at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art back in April.

This is Untitled Collage No. 179 (Novato), April 22, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 34.8 x 26.7cm (13.2 x 10.5in). Matted to 24 x 20 inches. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 178 (Novato)

Here is the third of the four collages I made using material I printed at a recent class I co-taught with Suzanne Jacquot at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. All four use the pattern of circles as a basic element.

This is Untitled Collage No. 178 (Novato). April 22, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image dive 23.7 x 31.9cm (9.2 x 12.5 inches). Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 177 (Novato)

I co-taught a class with Suzanne Jacquot at the Marin Museum of Contemporary Art back in April. My role was mostly showing how I make the monoprints that become raw material for my abstract collages. This is the second of four collages I made from monoprints that came out of demonstrating for the class. Suzanne had brought a pile of cardboard sheets with circular cutouts and these made interesting prints. All four of the collages from Novato use images made using the cutouts.

This is Untitled Collage No. 177 (Novato), April 22, 2017, Acrylic on paper (acrylic monoprint), collage. Image size: 35.8 x 25.2cm (14.1 x 9.9in), matted to 20 x 16 inches. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 175 (Santa Rosa)

Having just written a brief post about one of my recent collages (Untitled Collage No. 176 (Santa Rosa)), I realize that I skipped posting one I wanted to show here. This is Untitled Collage No. 175 (Santa Rosa). Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. April 16, 2017. Image size: 27.8 x 17.3cm (10.9 x 6.8in). Matted to 20 x 16in. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 176 (Novato)

The first of four collages I made recently from monoprints I did while co-teaching a class at The Marin Museum of Contemporary Art. This is Untitled Collage No. 176 (Novato). April 22, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 23.6 x 32.8cm (9.3 x 12.9in). Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 174 (Santa Rosa)

A while back fellow collage artist and friend Sherry Parker gave me a stack of handwritten music (mostly done in fountain pen, some in pencil) that had been heavily revised in red pencil, sometimes in blue pencil. I love the stuff. It's seductive. I keep using it despite my usual reluctance to incorporate found paper into my collages. This is my latest (and perhaps last) composition using a fragment of one of these sheets. I've since given the remainder of the paper to other collage artists. Much as I like the music for its gestural qualities and the subtle color accents it offers, I don't want to use too much of it.

Pictured is Untitled Collage No. 174 (Santa Rosa). Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, found paper, collage. April 16, 2017. Image size: 33.1 x 23.9cm (13.0 x 9.4in). Matted to 20 x 16in. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 173 (Santa Rosa)

A recent collage. This is Untitled Collage No. 173 (Santa Rosa), a small piece (7.5 x 7.0cm or 3.0 x 2.8 inches). April 14, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, found paper. It uses various scraps of monoprints I've made, a fragment of a doodling robot drawing (the orange and black linear element at the center of the composition), and bits of hand-written music. Matted to 11x 14 inches. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 172 (Santa Rosa)

A new collage. This one combines a bit of calligraphic gesture with a geometric array—a self-contained diptych of sorts. Untitled Collage No. 172 (Santa Rosa). April 4, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. 32.2 x 22.0cm (12.7 x 8.7inches). Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 171 (Santa Rosa)

A new collage. A small one (4.4 x 4.1 inches) using some smoky-looking bluish black papers I recently made. This is Untitled Collage No. 171 (Santa Rosa). March 31, 2017. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 170 (Santa Rosa)

A recent piece. Untitled Collage No. 170 (Santa Rosa). February 15, 2017. A comparatively large collage for me, this one measures 25.5 x 35.2cm (or 10.0 x 13.9in). Matted to 20 x 24 inches. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, fragment of a doodling robot drawing. Signed on the mat. Signed and dated on the reverse.

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Art I'm Making : Untitled Collage No. 134 (Santa Rosa)

And yet another collage from February, again using some recently made monoprinted papers mostly in warm tones.

This is Untitled Collage No. 134 (Santa Rosa). February 23, 2016. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 16.1 x 18.0cm. Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated on reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 133 (Santa Rosa)

A recent collage using some of the pink, brown, yellow, black, and white papers I monoprinted a few weeks back. This is Untitled Collage No. 133 (Santa Rosa). February 20, 2016. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 20.0 x 26.0cm. Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated on reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 132 (Santa Rosa)

Another new collage—one of a group from the past few weeks using new papers I've made—mostly in yellows, browns, oranges, and pink—although I've made some all-black and all-white sheets as well, these variously tainted with other colors, an effect achieved by deliberately not washing the glass plate they were printed from.

February 17, 2016—Untitled Collage No. 132 (Santa Rosa), using monoprinted papers. Image size: 18.8 x 26.0cm. Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 131 (Santa Rosa)

Another new collage—one of a group I've made rapidly in the past two weeks , inspired by new papers I've made—mostly in yellow, brown, orange, and pink, but I've made some all-black and all-white sheets as well. This piece, more about form than color, uses the black sheets almost exclusively.

February 16, 2016—Untitled Collage No. 131 (Santa Rosa), using monoprinted papers. Image size: 10.8 x 19.5cm. Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 130 (Santa Rosa)

A new collage—one of a group I've made rapidly in the past 10 days or so, inspired by a set of new papers I've made—mostly in yellow, brown, orange, and pink, but I've made some all-black and all-white sheets as well.

February 16, 2016—Untitled Collage No. 130 (Santa Rosa), using monoprinted papers. Image size: 14.2 x 15.6cm. Matted to 20 x 16 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 129 (Santa Rosa)

New collage, February 15, 2016—Untitled Collage No. 129 (Santa Rosa), using monoprinted papers. Image size: 14.3 x 13.2cm. Matted to 20 x 16 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 128 (Santa Rosa)

I finished a new collage on February 14—Untitled Collage No. 128 (Santa Rosa), this one using both monoprinted and painted papers. Image size: 17.6 x 12.1cm. Matted to 20 x 16 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

[Update: This image was subsequently sold to Imagery Estate Winery and is in the winery's permanent collection. It appeared in 2017 on the label of their 2016 Muscat de Canelli.]

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 127 (Santa Rosa)

My most recent collage. A small piece.

Untitled Collage No. 127 (Santa Rosa). January 30, 2016. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 10.5 x 13.8cm. Matted to 11 x 14 inches. Signed and dated on reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: Untitled Collage No. 126 (Santa Rosa)

Yet another new collage from the past week.... I'm trying to keep to the disciplined pace I set for myself two years ago--on average, one finished piece a week.

Untitled Collage No. 126 (Santa Rosa). January 23, 2016. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, found paper (sandpaper), collage. Image size: 23.6 x 11.4cm. Matted to 20 x 16 inches. Signed and dated on reverse. Signed on the mat.

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Art I'm Making: New Collage (January 25, 2016)

A new collage piece—Untitled Collage No. 124 (Santa Rosa). Finished January 21, 2016. Acrylic on paper, acrylic monoprint, collage. Image size: 17.3 x 16.0cm. Matted to 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated on the reverse. Signed on the mat.

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