David Lavine, Sploosh!, hand-cut paper collage, 6 1/4” x 6 1/4”

Join us for the opening reception of David Lavine: Collage on Friday, February 6th, 7 to 10 PM.

The exhibition has been extended through Sunday, March 29!

Artist’s Statement:

All works are one-of-a-kind paper collages, hand-cut with scissors and assembled with archival tape and glue. There is no scanning, reprinting or photocopying, or any type of digital manipulation. All printed matter is fair game: textbooks, posters, magazines, catalogs, coloring books, maps, comic books, art books, etc. Working from a quarry of several thousand cut elements, form and color relationships serve as a starting point for each collage; eventually narrative threads appear as disparate elements begin to relate. Sometimes the finished collages are explosions of shape and color in hyper-dynamic compositions and seamless spatial interplay, other times they are minimal landscapes or seascapes resulting from the simple pairing of two cut pieces.

Selected group exhibitions:

“Art From The Boros II,” Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York)
“Art From The Boros,” Denise Bibro Fine Art (New York)
“Green Acres & Simple Pleasures,” Piermont Straus (Piermont, NY)
Dealers’ Lounge, PS Project Space (New York)
“A Minor Inconvenience,” Pierro Gallery of South Orange / Montclair Art Museum Young Curators (South Orange, NJ)
“Scapes,” Brooklyn Artists Gym (Brooklyn)
“Intimate: Small Works,” Brooklyn Artists Gym (Brooklyn)

Publication/Web:

“New Works by David Lavine,” aarting (aarting.com)
“David Lavine”, aarting (aarting.com)
Featured work, Indiewalls (indiewalls.com)
Featured work, The Atomy (theatomy.com)
Featured work, Zealous (www.zealous.co)

Education:

University of Pennsylvania, BA Fine Arts

davidlavinecollage.com