Each annual release capsule features cover artworks by a single artist.
Lara Rouse (2023)
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From Lara: "I find images from books and magazines, cut or rip out the pages and make a new image with what I’ve found. The collages I make are surreal, and sometimes abstract. My subject matter varies greatly. In a way I’m at the mercy of the source material; it’s very difficult for me to make a collage with a specific vision or subject in mind and this constraint has freed me to make so much more than I could ever have imagined. With these pieces of paper I can control everything, I can forget about the rest of the world for a moment and be peaceful. I don’t know what inspires me. I definitely am fascinated with music and it’s ability to transport the listener to a different time and space, and I feel transported when I see a beautiful collage. Collage is beautiful. There would probably be no collages without music.
The main things I allow myself to consider are colour palette and balance. The fun and accessibility of collage making keeps me making new art. Before I collaged I painted, before I painted I drew pictures and was into acting. I always knew, it was more of a matter of declaring myself to be an artist. Sometimes I forget and my daughter will tell me “You’re an artist!” And I’m like “yes! Yes I am!” I never wanted to do anything else." |
Rachel Mulder (2022)
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Rachel lives in Portland, Oregon, with her two cats, Opal and Tomasina. She was born in rural Wisconsin and when she was small she spent a lot of time sitting in the grass staring, obsessing about animals, drooling over the nastiness of cartoons, and peeling her skin off. She vacillates between obsessive and loosey-goosey ways of working but refers to it all as Drawing. She explores many types of media, including water-soluble graphite, pen and ink, cyanotype, and her wet hair on the shower wall. She earned her BFA in printmaking at the Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design in 2009, and though she indulges in the one-of-a-kind-ness of drawings, the images she makes are often tinged with a longing for printmaking in texture and feeling.
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Sara Swoboda (2020)
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Sara has been drawing everyday since June 17, 2008 and is currently creating a mile-long drawing. Check out her work on Instagram.
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Hellsea (2019)
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Hellsea is an Asian American multidisciplinary artist in Portland, OR. Her work centers around romantic existentialism: expressing the love within the reality of simply living, and how to create in art the moments and sentiments she finds about life that are intimate, joyous, and magical.
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