CAA the Cutting Edge Newsletter May 2011
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The Cutting Edge Collage Artists of America Newsletter May 2011 Volume II, Issue 5 The Traveling Collagist, Part III: Supplies, Dry and Flat by Karen Robbins his segment will focus on dry supplies. These should be the major- ity of supplies you carry on a plane, simply because of the limited Tliquids rules. For flat materials designed to be glued onto a support, you might con- established 1988 sider traveling with paper, fabric, wood, metal, yarn, string, thread, plas- tic (flat), tapes, stickers or decals, and mats. For ease of use in cramped travel quarters, keep very small pieces to a minimum--they’ll just disap- Gerald Brommer pear in the cracks between seat cushions or hit that nasty corridor floor. Large pieces should be no bigger than letter size; if you think about it, 1-day workshop your airplane or train seat is barely wider than a laptop! see page 5 Larger Flat Materials For materials from about three by five inches up to letter size, try a Profolio binder kept inside a poly zip envelope. You can organize flat items in the different page pockets by color, texture, size, shape, etc. CALENDAR Everything is all in one storage device, and they won’t bend because the May 27 General Meeting stiff polypropylene cover protects the pages inside. The book’s slim spine makes it less bulky for travel than a traditional notebook. Black backing June 24 Principles of Design sheets set off the colored materials; switch one out for a white backer on Workshop with a page with darker pieces. The book’s components are acid-free and Gerald Brommer archival safe. Although the pockets stay nicely flat, the poly envelope will Jul 15 Encino Terrace help corral materials should the book be upended accidentally. exhibit closes Smaller Flat Materials Jul 16 Artwork Pick-up For smaller papers and flat items, try coupon holders, string-tie en- TBD Fall Juried Exhibition velopes in smaller sizes, zippered cosmetic pouches, or zippered plastic bags. Clear plastic allows you to see materials before you dive in. Add a Sep 23 General Meeting sheet of stiff cardboard to help stabilize and avoid bending the contents. Dec 2 General Meeting Another solution is a CD holder that zips closed. The pages may have a deep center opening to facilitate CD removal, which makes them suitable for papers at least three inches wide. Hard-sided business card cases and IN THIS ISSUE continued page 7 President’s Point . 2 Welcome New Members . 2 Member Spotlight . 2 Meeting & Program . 3 MAY 27 MEETING Exhibitions & Competitions . 4 GUEST ARTIST: MARITTA TAPANAINEN Workshops . 5 amazing detail and precision in a quiet palette Resource Outlet . 6 Exhibits . 7 See page 3 for meeting and program details. Board Members . 8 page 2 May 2011 The Cutting Edge Welcome New President’s Point: Members See You in September Melinda Warren by Jeanne Zinniker Hidden Hills CA ay 27 is our last meeting until September, and I wanted to give you, as members, a chance to send us your suggestions for our Mfuture meetings. The board has been concerned over and disap- e-mail change: pointed in general meeting attendance, which seems to have dropped Harriett Lahana dramatically over the last few years. We know that the program presentations are a hit with members who Barbara Schwartz do attend. Stellar presentations by artists such as Katherine Chang Liu, Kaoru Mansour, Franklyn Liegel, Gerald Brommer, Blair Martin Cahill, and May presenter Maritta Tapanainen open up new worlds of thought to members, and offer the ability to have creative exchanges with the Member artists directly. These presentations are just one benefit of CAA member- Spotlight ship; meetings themselves are free for members and just $5 for guests. Each meeting’s raffle also gives members a chance to donate to the Rea Nagel’s mixed-media CAA Scholarship Fund and come away with an intriguing or entertain- painting “The Road to Cortez” is ing prize—sometimes an original artwork by that day’s presenting artist! included in North Light Books’ And the second-chance table offers unusual and useful art supplies at Splash showcase. Splash 12 The yard-sale prices. Best of Watercolor: Celebrating Artistic At our board meetings, we are continually trying to think of ways to Vision publishes in June and show- improve the quality and functions of CAA. Is there more that a general meeting could include? Something else that cases the work of 100 artists. might be done differently? We are open to any Members: Send notice of your suggestions members might have to add value collage art appearing in current and creativity to meetings and other events. If and upcoming exhibits to the any of you have suggestions for future speakers, editor or ideas for activities you would like to take place, please send them to me or another board member. We would love to hear from you. Treasurer’s Have a wonderfully creative summer. Report —Jeanne m by Marian Devney Re-use and Recycle Art Materials Cash balance as of April 25, and Go Green 2010: $12,870.39. Turn your unwanted art materials “green”—bring them to the second- chance table. Repurpose your handpainted and printed paper, wallpaper, Color is my day-long travel materials, paint and art supplies (both new and used), frames, col- lage and assemblage materials, magazines, foreign newspapers, and art- obsession, joy, and or culture-related books. CAA resells your cast-offs at flea-market prices, torment. and all proceeds go to the Scholarship Fund. Questions? Contact Sandy Rooney, 818-249-9006 —Claude Monet The Cutting Edge May 2011 page 3 MAY PROGRAM Maritta Tapanainen: Meticulous Movement aritta Tapanainen was born in Finland, work is organic and biomorphic, with elements seem- raised in Canada, and has since lived in Eu- ing to undulate or dance through the collage—all the Mrope, Central America, and in the harsh, ex- while managing to be so with a restrained palette of pansive beauty of the Mojave black, gray, and off-white. Her desert. She travels when possi- work is meticulously crafted, to ble—journeys to South East the extent that it is often diffi- Asia, Cuba, Japan, Sri Lanka, cult to determine whether the and most recently South Amer- image is built from glued mate- ica. These encounters have in- rials or drawn with ink. Many fused an awareness and respect of her images are dense with for a variety of cultural experi- energetic and geometric ele- ences and contribute to her ments that morph and float approach to collage. through the piece. Tapanainen’s works are an Since the 1990s, Tapanainen accumulation of excised forms has shown internationally and recontextualized to create new extensively in the U.S., includ- worlds. Material is sourced ing solo shows at the Fresno from used scientific textbooks and various industrial Art Museum and the Pasadena Armory Center for books. The choice of aged, worn paper, and an inter- the Arts (with Patrick Percy). She is a two-time recipi- est in printing aberrations, illustrated fragments, and ent of Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants. Her work engraved optical eccentricities found in the pre-1960s is in numerous private collections and in the collection volumes, combine to imbue the work with a sense of of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. She is repre- immediacy, history, and a detached timelessness. Her sented by Pavel Zoubok Gallery in New York, and by Couturier Gallery in Los Angeles where her most re- cent exhibition, Paper Works with Echiko Ohira and Alan Valencia, was fea- tured in the February 2011 issue of ArtScene. Her work also appeared in the recent Borders and Frontiers: Collage and Appropriation in the Con- temporary Image exhibit at Oakland University Art Gallery in Rochester, Michigan. Tapanainen currently lives and works in Santa Monica. UPCOMING MEETING: Friday, May 27 Friday, May 27, 2011, 11 a.m.–1 p.m., Bernard Parking reminder: Once you leave the meeting, Milken Jewish Community Campus Audito- JCC security policy requires that you move rium, 22622 Vanowen St., West Hills, 91307, your car out of the JCC parking lot. Thank you 818-464-3300. Membership renewal forms for for your cooperation. 2011-12 will be available. Next meeting: September 23, 2011 page 4 May 2011 The Cutting Edge Galleries Exhibitions and Competitions Exhibition opportunities are listed as a service and do not represent CAA endorsement or recom- Wanted mendation unless specifically noted. If you know of an exhibition opportunity, please send sponsor and website information to the editor With the loss of VIVA’s gallery, CAA is on the hunt for more Mix It Up! Mixed-Media Deadline: May 20, 2011 exhibit spaces. Are you aware of Exhibition: August 5–September 4, 2011, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA a great venue where we can Awards: $1,000 in cash prizes mount exhibits? If you do, please Juror: Tobin Keller let us know! Send venue name, Open to: All U.S. residents, 2D or 3D works. location, and any other informa- Submit: 300 dpi JPEG file on CD, submission form. tion you know to Exhibits Chair Entry fee: $40 for one to three artworks. Lois Ramirez at 818-848-3502 Prospectus: www.scal.org/assets/OnlineMixItUp.pdf Contact: Santa Cruz Art League, Cindy Liebenthal, 831-426-5787, [email protected] 13th Annual Collage, Digital & Mixed Media Juried Online International Art Join a Committee Exhibition and Help Exhibits Deadline: May 24, 2011 Exhibition: June 1, 2011–May 31, 2012, Upstream People Gallery, Omaha, NE Run Smoothly Awards: Unspecified cash awards of excellence and special recognitions. Juror: Laurence Bradshaw Would you like to get more in- Open to: All artists worldwide.