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COLLAGE

Valerie Deas
Birds in Paradise
Collage, 12x16

Tasked with producing animal-theme works for an art show, Deas created several pieces with birds and took the opportunity to reflect on our coexistence with nature. This piece includes pen, graphite, marker, painted paper collage, and organza imposed on top for a silky finish.

Valerie Deas
Magical Birds in a Forest
Collage, 12x16

Birds, and other animals, are magical by nature. They can camouflage, move as a group, protect one another, and fly. This piece asks us to consider what other kind of magic exists in nature and how we can be part of it.

Valerie Deas
Untitled
Collage, 12x16

This collage includes discarded paper and acrylic paint. It was built on the image of the smaller woman, and the eye near the center top—a clipping from a photograph—pulls the viewer in. There is a contrast between overlapping colors and fine lines: the collage uses these shapes and movements to explore portraiture and figurative representation.

Valerie Deas
Untitled
Collage, 12x16

This abstract piece made of layers of cut, painted paper asks the viewer: What do you see? The indefinite forms might suggest a still life, a portrait, a landscape, or something less definite. Anything can emerge from these forms, and Deas seeks complexity in textures and depth that can give rise to a conversation rather than dictate a single story or narrative.

Valerie Deas
Duplicity
Collage, 12x16

Deas created this mixed-media collage using discarded paper from an art class. Here, the Cubistic man and woman are more abstract than some of the figures in her other pieces. The light background concentrates our attention on the dark colors in the foreground, encouraging us to look carefully at this mass of shapes and find the figures and shapes overlapping there.

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