Cutting and Collage: The Artist Profile of Hope Kroll
Cutting: My images are dissected with cuticle scissors and an exacto knife. I find the act of cutting and separating the image from its original context to be very satisfying and challenging at times. It satisfies me as much as any brushstroke or line. Line used to be very important to me. It was in […]
Transforming Vintage Books: A Journey into Three-Dimensional Collage Art
The medium of collage has interested me since college, I would rip up my etchings and proofs in order incorporate them into my oil paintings. At the same time I was creating compositions for my etchings by tearing up and rearranging my drawings. Later on, in graduate school, I began working with old hardcover books […]