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For Love of Collage & Graffiti

Hello. This time around I have attempted something new with newly discovered materials. The images below reflect my passion for collage and graffiti (and music). --This is also the first time I've included text in my collage--. After my last post I had a lot of questions concerning my collages, and more specifically their meanings. I have provided an artist statement below that might provide some clarification:

Matt Sell constructs collages from found materials to reflect the overabundance of information and materials that define our modern world. Through the collection of forgotten or disregarded materials, he reformulates old ideas into new expressions. His primary sources of artistic materials are used magazines and abandoned papers. Collage artists Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, Ray Johnson, and the contemporary Agnes Montgomery, have all used paper collage as a means of expression, and remain prodigious influences in his work. Matt Sell’s current collages are based on autonomous combinations of images that form ambiguous, political, and subversive imagery. He intends that his work should reach an avant-garde audience, one that seeks to further art rather than dabble in classical means of expression.

-Jessa Heath

Opus #1. Collage. 2010.

Opus #2. Collage. 2010.

Opus #3. Collage. 2010.

Opus #4. Collage. 2010.

Fresh Paper

Between working three jobs and trying to maintain some sanity I have finally managed to get some work up. Below is a sampling of my current collage work. Enjoy.

Painting For A Friend

"Gabby"

This is a painting I did for a good friend in Atlanta on V-day.

"Nite Jewel"

Finished illustration of Nite Jewel.

Busy

"Busy Signal"

Wow...it feels like I haven't been on here in a while. All of my energy has been put into trying to land an art career (hah!). Although a lot of my time is currently invested in job-hunting, I still have managed to do a little art here-and-there. I'm currently sketching my dreams (odd for me), as well as completing a large portion of a personal texture library, and still managing to get an illustration of a musician in now-and-then. Above is an piece I completed this evening of the dancehall musician Busy Signal. Enjoy & check back soon.

Back To Court

I will be attending court and doing drawings/sketches once again for WMUR. Check back next week for posted/published work, and tune in to channel 9-NEWS (if you live in New Hampshire) on Monday, January 11th 2010, to see my drawings.