Paper Play: A Collage Exhibition Featuring Zanahoy, John Catron, Sarah Grant Duff, Torea Frey,
Jack Procter, Evie Osborn, Seema Shah, Chris Short, and Geoff Wonnacott
November 4 - 25, 2023
Reception: November 4 from 4-6pm. Free and open to the public.
Artist talk: November 18 at 2pm. Free and open to the public.
We recommend you reserve a seat via email at outsidersandothers@gmail.com
Collage is often thought of as a modern artistic technique. The word collage – from the French verb coller, meaning “to stick” – was first used to describe the Cubist innovations of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who began to stick newspaper cuttings and other materials onto their canvases in 1912.
This exhibition features artists from both Canada and the US which came from a call for artists we posted 6months ago. We do this on occasion so we could bring some new artists to our gallery and to share the perspective of these artists in our City.
And even though we live in an age of advanced technology and AI, all the artists featured in this exhibitioncut paper and use glue to make their artwork.
Please note that prices do not include shipping and handling costs.
For a quote email us at outsidersandothers@gmail.com
John Catron is a self-taught multimedia artist who works and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
John Catron
Untitled #27
9” x 6.5”
Collage
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John Catron
Untitled #6
9” x 6”
Collage
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Sarah Grant Duff is a self-taught artist.
"Collage can be a deeply personal exploration.
I battle depression as many people do, and Collage is my favourite weapon of choice.
I am lucky to live and work on the stolen lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh. "
Sarah Grant Duff
At first a ghostly shape will surprise,
startle, and most of all, inspire
14” x 14”
Collage
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Sarah Grant Duff
Untitled
11.5“ x 14”
Collage
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Torea Frey is a self-taught mixed-media collage artist based in Clackamas, Oregon. She's been working with found papers, glue, and paint since the early 2000s, exploring the transformative potential of mundane materials. Her work has been shown in the US and abroad, including at the Bristol Art Museum and Kolkata's Academy of Fine Arts, and has garnered awards from the Northwest Collage Society and the National Collage Society.
Torea Frey
Finding My Voice
12" x 9"
Collage
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Torea Frey
In Good Faith
5" x 6.5"
Collage
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Born and raised in East Vancouver, 75 year old Jack Procter has been making art for over 50 years. He is
well known for his eye catching public display of art that is continuously rotated 365 days a year at his
centrally located Vancouver home. A self-taught artist, Procter has been developing and honing his art making skills throughout his life. Often unable to afford the luxury of traditional paint and other art making materials, he employs salvaged objects, found materials, and industrial products in his inventive art making.
Procter has lived a blue collar life, doing what needs to be done to get by, however his real passion is
creating masterful collages, mobiles, and paintings. Procter reclusively operates at the margins of culture and the Vancouver art scene. His artwork is directly informed by his trade knowledge and life experiences. He resists the capitalist logic of consumer culture and, whatever the materials may be, Procter’s finished work is made with impeccable details and craftsmanship.
Evie Osborn is a self-taught mixed media abstract collage artist. "My process is intuitive, fun and forgiving. Creating art for me is a way to let go of the control that we often feel the need to have in our everyday lives. It is one of the only spaces I have found that is truly free from pressure or expectation, as the outcomes are completely unknown.
The work is created over days, months and sometimes years. Each piece of work is connected to many others yet impossible to replicate due to the spontaneity of the process. I liken this to the process of nature, which is complex and interconnected with truly unique outcomes."
Evie Osborn
Sun Through Water
21 cm x 15 cm
Collage
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Evie Osborn
Peace on Earth
12.5 cm x 14 cm
Collage
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Seema Shah "I am a mixed media collage artist and writer, often combining image and text in my work. Guided by the subconscious, my creative process is one of self-discovery. I work intuitively, piecing together narratives that are dark and questioning. Hinting at something deeper, meaning is expressed obliquely in my art through the use of metaphor – and, at times, even humour – creating distance and allowing the viewer to find their own connection to it.
Seema Shah
IF
10.25” x 7.5” unframed / comes framed 12" x 9"
Mixed media collage on vintage book cover
SOLD
Seema Shah
Untitled
6.9” x 4.2”
Mixed media collage on vintage book cover
SOLD
Chris Short. "I am equally inspired by the look and feel of 1960s/70s pop culture and our digital, algorithmic age. Mid-century modern aesthetics, pinup and fashion photography, news magazine ads are integrated with digital photography of my local surroundings into my 2D mixed media collage work. I take an analytical approach – carefully selecting colors and a clean, modern layout. Then applying layers through A/B experimentation, I realize the data is messy and allow deviations to enter. These random surprises become essential to the piece.
This love of integrating past and present means my art stirs nostalgia and familiarity. But the slicing-and-dicing of images brings in humor and awareness of the absurd. Color and shape obscure to allow your imagination to fill in the blanks (or not) and create your own story. Imperfections exist and bring their own identity, just like we experience in life.
In the late 80s/early 90s, I created zines and chapbooks. In many ways, the zines were multi-page collages of text and images. Over the past 5 years, I have re-discovered the joys of zines and collage. I published two issues of my zine Red Heifer Offering in 2020-21. I collaborated with indie-rock band, Starflyer59, on a zine to accompany the release of their 2021 record, In Search of Vanity (Velvet Blue Music). In the zine, I included three of my pieces inspired by the band’s music. It was during the time working on the project that I got focused and serious about my collage work. Since then, I have created over 20 pieces with more in progress.
My education is in business (master’s degree in accounting) and my day job is in retail analytics where I lead various measurement initiatives. I don’t have any formal training in art, but I absolutely love art in all its forms. I have never exhibited my art (other than in the basement of my home).
Chris Short
Last Beach in Satansville
Collage
12.25” x 12.25” framed
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Chris Short
The Girl From Tape Op Hill
Collage, paper, digital photography
11” x 11”
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Geoff Wonnacott lives in Ontario and has a BA in Psychology and additional studies in art history. He also worked as a construction worker for farm structures, as a labourer on great lakes freighters and other survival related activities.
"My exhibition history is not extensive but my first public exposure was at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery in 1977 for the group exhibition Artforms 77. Both of my works for this show were collage. Big gap since then for exhibited collage work but I have had some exposure in the last five years. All group shows.
All my recently exhibited work is collage but in the past I have documented performance pieces and created sculpture. I explored time, distance, space and scale. A 4,500 mile trans Canada walk from St, John's to Victoria, a 30 day solitary confinement in Gallery 101, Ottawa, a non-stop 100 mile walk, a 36 hour period of lying still on a platform at SAW Gallery, Ottawa. These projects were completed 40 plus years ago."
Geoff Wonnacott
Nigel
24" x 20" unframed
Collage
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Geoff Wonnacott
Fools Epiphany
24" x 20" unframed
Collage
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Zanahoy. "I am born and bound to the Maritimes, centered around Halifax. I am a high school grad, then I took a couple years in trades school to become a Red Seal Carpenter.
I specialize on sustainable and eco-friendly projects and create surreal scenes harvested responsibly from all sorts of vintage paper sources. I have been creating collages for 10 years."
Zanahoy
It’s Fun
6-3/8” x 6-3/4”
Collage
SOLD
Zanahoy
Public Domain and Vase
7.25” x 7.25”
Collage
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