My Invisible Friends

“two brothers surrounded by water” matchbook collage - Minneapolis/St Paul - How about an iPhone shot of one of my latest collage pieces?

David Bowie

20 x 20 - 168 Matchbook collage

See this collage at Black Sheep Pizza - 512 N Robert St St Paul MN 55102. I am so excited to share this collage made up of Bowie images pulled from magazines, books and the web. I worked really hard to find a balance to please everyone from the casual listener to the diehard fan. Let me know how I did.

Matchbook Scrapbook Collage

Looking for a way to display all those images stuck inside your Computer or gathering dust in a shoebox? I take your favorite images - scan, print, hand-cut and mount those images on a back ground color of your choice. 

The above piece I created for a Husband to surprise his wife on his wedding day. He provided a list of her favorites from music and movies (she loves the horror genre), restaurants, vacation spots and other places the couple enjoyed themselves. We surrounded her with these images and here’s the end result.

I would love to create a piece for you. Get in touch and we can get your collage ready for the holidays.  

afraid adjust 

364 matchbook collage - Dec 2009 

What scares you changes throughout your life. Monsters under the bed, horror movie characters give way to loneliness, war, injury, illness and death. I worked very hard to visualize that change. 

we run better when we run together

20 x 20
collage 168 matchbooks
nov 2010

when they asked to live among us we sent them away out of fear.

they returned to defeat our attacking enemies and asked for nothing.

20 x 20
collage 168 matchbooks
nov 2010

the dream came true when we dreamed together - 2010 - matchbooks - mixed media assemblage  

i finally found a home - 2010 - 30 matchbooks - mixed media

“we run better when we run together.” 

20 x 20
collage 168 matchbooks
nov 2010

Here’s a little sneak peek of one of the two pieces i’ll be debuting on Saturday Dec 12th at Fox Tax Gallery as part of the Salon style group show.  

The Gallery at Fox Tax is proud to announce a new exhibit entitled These are a Few of Our Favorite Things. For this holiday exhibit, owners Mark and Alyssa Fox, along with regular curator Emma Berg of MPLSART.com, each pick 10 of their favorite artists and create their own salon style collage that highlights both the depth and variety of local artistic talent as well as their own personal tastes as curators and collectors. The show will be on exhibit from Dec 3rd to Jan 7th, 2011. Holiday Reception will be Saturday December 11th from 6 to 10 pm. 

Occurring on December 11th as part of the Holiday reception artists have also donated a work of art that will be sold gift-wrapped and sight unseen for $100 each. Proceeds of purchased gift wrapped pieces will be going directly to a charity of the artists’ choosing, creating both a way to give back to the community and to further a main mission of the Gallery at Fox Tax: to encourage art collecting and ensure it is viewed as something attainable and affordable to anyone with an interest in art.

siouxie sioux # 2 - this collage consists of over 260 matchbooks.  it resides at “black sheep pizza” in the Warehouse District of Minneapolis.  Stop in for a taste of the only coal fire pizza in the midwest.  tell’em corey sent ya !