Collage Workshop: Surreal Realities
Join multi-media artist + co-director of Super Secret Projects, Diana Vidal for a unique Collage Workshop using Vintage National Geographic magazines and images giving participants the opportunity to create truly one of a kind art with rare collage materials provided.
Workshop info
2 Hour Hands-on Workshop covering:
Sourcing materials and overview of tools
Overview of techniques + tips
Prompts & inspiration
Ability to make 1 or several collages throughout the workshop with materials provided
Materials to prep your collage to frame. A mat, backing and archival bag will provided for your work.
Feel free to bring anything you’d like to work with!
At the end of this workshop, everyone will have created at least one totally unique, fine art collage piece, and learn how to preserve their artwork.
Collage Workshop: Surreal Realities
Join multi-media artist + co-director of Super Secret Projects, Diana Vidal for a unique Collage Workshop using Vintage National Geographic magazines and images giving participants the opportunity to create truly one of a kind art with rare collage materials provided.
Workshop info
2 Hour Hands-on Workshop covering:
Sourcing materials and overview of tools
Overview of techniques + tips
Prompts & inspiration
Ability to make 1 or several collages throughout the workshop with materials provided
Materials to prep your collage to frame. A mat, backing and archival bag will provided for your work.
Feel free to bring anything you’d like to work with!
At the end of this workshop, everyone will have created at least one totally unique, fine art collage piece, and learn how to preserve their artwork.
Solo Show Closing - Diana Vidal
Closing: October 8th
Forgetting
Exhibition Statement:
Step into my world after an epileptic episode, where memory dances on the edge of illusion and a warped reality seems true. These experiences have brought me face to face with the delicate threads of time and how memory can unravel or disappear altogether.
These experiences leave me questioning: What is existence if you can’t remember it? Where do those lost memories go?
In "Forgetting," I explore the transient nature of time, memory and existence. Through videos, collaged imagery, and an artist book, I offer the viewer an opportunity to experience a distorted reality that I often visit. With each episode, there are large holes in my memory with flashes of images or memories surfacing weeks later.
Along with video and imagery pieces, this show’s accompanying book stands as a tangible embodiment of my experience—a collection of textures, gaps, and imprints that echo the very essence of memory's ephemerality. As memory intertwines the past and present, my work weaves a narrative that asks viewers to confront the mysterious and ethereal nature of memory and the distorted experiences that create a person.
Solo Show Opening - Diana Vidal
Opening Reception: September 9th, 6-9pm
Forgetting
Exhibition Statement:
Step into my world after an epileptic episode, where memory dances on the edge of illusion and a warped reality seems true. These experiences have brought me face to face with the delicate threads of time and how memory can unravel or disappear altogether.
These experiences leave me questioning: What is existence if you can’t remember it? Where do those lost memories go?
In "Forgetting," I explore the transient nature of time, memory and existence. Through videos, collaged imagery, and an artist book, I offer the viewer an opportunity to experience a distorted reality that I often visit. With each episode, there are large holes in my memory with flashes of images or memories surfacing weeks later.
Along with video and imagery pieces, this show’s accompanying book stands as a tangible embodiment of my experience—a collection of textures, gaps, and imprints that echo the very essence of memory's ephemerality. As memory intertwines the past and present, my work weaves a narrative that asks viewers to confront the mysterious and ethereal nature of memory and the distorted experiences that create a person.
Solo Show Opening - Alyssa Follansbee
Alyssa Follansbee’s Solo Show - Opening reception July 8 from 6-9pm
Show title: Interior
Exhibition Statement:
This show is about traveling inward to find inspiration. I am at a phase in my life where I tend to be home a lot, either with my young children or working on my art. I’ve really valued the peace, privacy, and solitude, and this work draws on the beauty I have discovered in this interior life. Consisting of various self portraits, these paintings explore the profound connection between the intellectual pursuit of knowledge and the sanctuary of personal space.
As a woman relatively confined to my domestic space the past few years, I’ve spent alot of time imagining those who have come before me- particularly women who have an urge to create art. The urge is not eclipsed by the relentless responsibilities. Instead, my imagination has shifted to fill and expand the space I inhibit. Intellectual pursuit does not need a passport, and seclusion has allowed me mental growth and stimulation in a way I would not have anticipated. What do we decide to share with the outside world? What do we keep just for ourselves, and why?
All of the work here was created from photos of myself and my family in my actual home. These paintings serve as a visual metaphor for my interior life- my daydreams, my observations, my boundaries, my cycling thoughts. My tribute to the countless artist mothers of the past who never stopped creating and intellectually exploring.
Perspective
A Super Secret Projects group exhibition. Opening reception April 8 from 6-9pm.