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Masters: Collage book release.

I am excited to announce that I am one of the artists is a newly published art book. The book, called "Collage: Masters", is a compilation of the leading collage artists around the world. The official release date is June 1, 2010 and here is the link to buy it from Amazon.com.

I was approached a few years back by Randel Plowman, a collage artist and curator of this book. He invited me to be one of the featured artists. It has been a long process but seeing the end results one can tell why. The layout and format of the book is beautiful and the talent level of the artists is inspiring. It gives me a whole new batch of artists to feature on my blog!

Some of the other featured artists include Cecil Touchon, Jonathan Talbot, Lynn Whipple, and Stephanie Dalton Cowan.

Here is a link to Randel Plowman's blog.

The collage artwork of Randel Plowman.

I was approached last year about being involved in a book about collage artists. The curator behind the book is Randel Plowman and he has an interesting blog titled "a collage a day" in which he has a new collage everyday of the year. They are all for sale and most of them are sold out.

As everyone keeps reminding us of the bad economy and that art is a great investment here is a perfect example to get original artwork at a great price.

I handed in all of my work for the book in early January of this year and it has a release date of late Spring 2010. I will post more information as it gets closer to the release date.

I am very excited to see the different artists that will be involved. So far I know that Cecil Touchon is involved. He is in an earlier post on my blog that you can see here.

For more of Randel's work please go here or here.


"Windy Day"


"Toss"


"Till Then"


"The Town"


"Strike Zone"


"Secret Box"


"Fielder"


"Doubleheader"


"Crown Of Love"


"Come To Be"

The collage artwork of Cecil Touchon.

I will be published in an upcoming book titled "Collage" Masters" that will be released in early 2010 from Lark Books. In my research I found that Cecil Touchon will also be in that book. I am a huge fan of his work. Touchon makes abstract, non objective collage and paintings. His work references type from old advertising posters but is transformed into abstract geometric planes. I am attracted to his bold, stark color and strong compositions.

Touchon is also the director of the Ontological Museum in Texas.

You can see more of his work here and here.