Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
In Jake Dombroski's collages, discarded products are juxtaposed against natural backdrops, highlighting consumerism's impact on the environment. A Hennessy label in a desert, a Coca-Cola can among sunflowers, a crumbled pack of Newport cigarettes over suburban homes, and an iPhone against a fiery terrain prompt reflection on our ecological footprint. Dombroski's art questions the sustainability of our 21st-century consumer habits.
Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
My work is centered around collage, assemblage, and painting, through which I explore the intersection of Dadaism and commercialism. I am fascinated by the ways in which commercialism permeates every aspect of modern life, and I seek to comment on this through my work, often with irony and irreverence.
Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
Working as a professional in creative advertising, I exist in a never-ending cycle creating contemporary work to push a specific product by day, only to come home and reassemble vintage ads at night. Just as I am finding new meaning in the work through the recontextualizing of images, I am finding new meaning within myself.
Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
I tend to work in series with their own specific themes; the last one I produced was called Legacy. Legacy explores the cycle of life and the traces that we leave behind as human beings. This body of work is about the remnants of our existence — the discarded materials that often outlast us, and how they were born from and return to the natural world. Every discarded piece of refuse has such a long life — from its production in some manufacturing warehouse across the seas, to the overflowing shelves of a convenience store, to the mouths of a consumer, and finally to the gutter. However, the pieces of garbage that are affixed to the landscapes in Legacy are memorialized.
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Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
I'm in love with imagery from the late 30s to early 70s. I find that the print processes then offer a particular aesthetic that I try to embody. In the Legacy series particularly, I was acquiring found objects for months before pairing them with the perfect landscapes.
Found object collage, resin, artist frame, 8 x 10 in.
Jake Dombroski was born in 1993 in New Jersey and is currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
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Aleksandra Kasuba’s Spaces for Senses - Mousse
Inesa Brašiškė pens an essay on the work of Lithuanian-born sculptor Aleksandra Kasuba (1923–2019) who believed in an interdependency between the spaces we inhabit and the way we feel, and who sought to find strategies for an alternative sensorial activation of the subject.
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Februllage
Februllage is a collaboration between Edinburgh Collage Collective and the Scandinavian Collage Museum. This is an initiative which invites collage artists to make a ‘collage a day’ throughout the month of February.
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Cloudward by Mary Halvorson
Mary Halvorson, a versatile guitarist, ensemble leader, and composer, transcends conventional musical boundaries. Her unique instrumental style and evolving aesthetic blend deep jazz roots with experimental rock and folk, showcasing a broad spectrum of stylistic influences in her work.
