Twilight Artist Collective presents Cryogenic Nude
America: A group collage show by The Collagemonauts ~ Marty Gordon, Tim
Manthey, and Craig van den Bosch.
ABOUT THE SHOW
Marty
Gordon, Tim Manthey and Craig van den Bosch began their friendship and
artistic collaboration in the summer of 2011. Their passion for the
medium of collage brought them together for Contemplations on the
Dialectical Utopian Vision, a collage exhibition at Fremont Abbey
curated by van den Bosch. Manthey and Gordon created their first
collaborative art works for that show. After the show, they began to
meet together for conversation and, on occasion, creating and trading
art with one another.
In
August of 2011, the three artists began work on three collaborative
collage journals in the Exquisite Corpse style. Each artist started a
journal and then passed it to the next artist. The artists agreed that
no image would be sacred and gave each other the freedom to do anything
they like, even if that meant covering over or destroying one another’s
work. The journals were finished in February of 2012.
The
next phase of the project began soon after when the artists secured a
September 2012 show at Twilight Artist Collective. Dubbed the
Collagemonauts by an artist friend, the three began work on larger works
of art for the show.
Themes
and motifs emerged naturally as the Collagemonauts continued their
collaborations. Space, religion, indigenous people, and medical science
became important themes to explore.The title, Cryogenic Nude America
comes from combining the incidental titles of the three collaborative
journals, and speaks to some of the abstractions presented in their
artwork.
OPENS: Thursday, Sept. 13th 6-9pm during West Seattle Art Walk
CLOSES: Friday, Oct. 5th
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