Disneyland art world

I have long been interested in collage art and have found very few artists with the style I love. Now that I came across Greg Gossel, an American graphic designer who is also into old-school collage, can't but include it in my sirdab's.

A charming kaleidoscope of colour with pop vivid comic flavoured images--in the spirit of Roy Lichtenstein --cascading in all directions, defying reason and challenging the viewer to make sense of this sparkling and fresh world that is Gossel's own.
Spontaneous, bright, positive & surreal; so irreverent that it becomes madly beautiful.

Gossel on his work:

"My work is about life, the struggle, and the beauty. I try to accomplish this through the interplay of many diverse words, images, and gestures. I’m interested in process – building up a surface and layering a variety of mediums; spraying, printing, splashing, erasing, dripping, and writing in a very loose and spontaneous way. When a piece is finished, I want it to illustrate a visual history of change, process, and expression."

There is horror in my work...

"There is horror in my work, a kind of cinematic narrative where the good guy always loses. There is a duplicity where cuteness and evil coexist behind the saccharine façade of a comic-book character or a much loved fast food restaurant. I am reflecting a world in trouble, a heaving dying fur-seal of an earth that is being repeatedly clubbed with baton-sized television remote controls. The drips that melt down the canvas are nods to an immense self-destructing machine made up of endless icons, logos and expressions that are the infected medical waste of the 20 th century.

At first it is a feeling of wanting to express this consumerist, pop-culture Armageddon that we are a part of, but I realize I have no choice, as, like you I have been given the responsibility of its maintenance and I never flipped through the instruction book (if there ever was one).

Any second now, any second now – we’ll all wake up."

-Ben Frost

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Ben Frost's work fuses logos, comic book characters and corporate mascots together into sometimes irreverent yet always playful statements on the nature of today's society.
He has worked and exhibited in Japan, Europe and across the USA. Frost's work has appeared in many magazines such as Vogue, Australian Art Collector and Harper's Bazar; and his commissioned work includes Nokia, Mambo, Tiger Beer, Livid and Warner Records

Wakystuff collage art

Love these creative & imaginative collage artwork by Wakystuff, from the Flickr platform.

Re-Play War

Mixed-media collage art by Lebanese multi-disciplinary artist Tarek Chémaly

Kuwait print arena

The featured collage image is ArabAd illustration cover for its December issue covering Kuwait media scene. It is inspired from the mushrooming of local dailies/ newspapers in Kuwait; a handmade collage from real newspapers to format the map of Kuwait. There is no Photoshop work here; it is back to basics, hand work made image by Waleed Shaalan (Architect, Principal Designer & Managing Partner) of BrainStorm agency in Kuwait for ArabAd magazine.

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