Kari Souders

Blue Kyoto : mixed media collage on paper

2023

Contemporary collage by Kari Souders. Kari Souders is best known for her ritualistic physical and structural approach to artwork that interweaves texture, form, line and color. Her ...

Collage work of art by Susan Hensel. Hensel created this work ruminating on the climate change and its influence on our planet. This topic often becomes apparent in her works on pap...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium combined with dry pigments, oil paint, and embedded fragments of burlap. The surfaces eventually build up into a dense, rugged terrain." --Thaddeus Radell

Kiki Smith For Leslie Gore, Mo Tucker, Laura Nyro and Mama Cass: What Girls Know About Grids (signed twice), 2000 Eight etching and relief etchings on handm...