Collaborations

CHROMA 2.0

Chroma 2.0, Mixed media pieces on 6 x 6 x .75 inch plywood.

Blue, Orange and Green installed at the Art Gallery at Glendale Community College, 2019.

As Jessica Hough says, in her essay “In The Spirit Of Collaboration”, “The stereotype of the solitary artist working away in private has dominated the recent history of Western art, but in the end we are social beings. The truth is that artists feed off their relationships with other creative people”.

Hana Kark intends to create transformative art experiences for the viewer, and for the artists who make the pieces, through a collaborative process that is at once prescribed and spontaneous. For the first time, in this collaboration, each artist worked separately on their twenty-five panels for each color. The collaborative element comes in the hanging of the work, which can be configured by color, arranged by artist, or randomly placed in a mosaic of color, texture, and text. This concept allows for maximum curatorial flexibility as each artist’s 25 panels are a complete 30” x 30” work by themselves. The artwork may be separated and rearranged in unlimited configurations – and may be presented in a formal grid, or an organic series snaking around the gallery walls.

To date, we have exhibited the collection three times. Each exhibit was curated by different people, twice by the artists, and once by an independent curator. Beyond the exhibitions, interior designers and Individual collectors who have purchased the work have made their own curatorial decisions, sometimes combining the work of multiple artists, and sometimes narrowing it to a single artist.

FACIAL RECOGNITION

Description: This project is about how we see ourselves, and then how others may take our images and modify them, combining their own aesthetic styles and media with the choices of the original artist. Each image was deconstructed and then reconstructed, giving it a different reality.

Collaboration System: Each participating artist created a self-portrait in digital format, which they then emailed to the other artists. Separately, every artist printed out all the self-portraits and worked on them in their own studios. When finished, everyone mailed or delivered their work for the sho

Rut/Route/Lane 2018

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NOTES FROM THE MAELSTROM

Like inter-dimensional cross sections, these works sample disparate elements and arrange them into a cohesive visual message. They offer a front row seat into the chaos which is at once a product of and metaphor for the birthing of Hana Kark.

From April 2017 to January 2018 S. Portico Bowman, Nancy Kay Turner, Luke Reichle, Caryl St. Ama and Carlyn Clark participated in a collaborative mixed media collage project initiated by Nancy and Portico. To purchase one of these pieces, please email us at [email protected].