Elaine Tassy: Domestic/Repetition
February 4th - 26th, 2022
"Domestic/Repetition" combines and explores the interplay between narrative and/or representational collage, and collages that have repetition -- either several different collages with repeating themes, or one collage where a pattern is repeated. About 75% of these collages were made during the pandemic, a period of time where domesticity has become so repetitive that one bleeds into the other.
The materials for these collages come from recycled sources, including repurposed printed-on paper given to me by Remarque Gallery, colors and images cut or ripped from People and Entertainment Weekly magazine, white strips from unused Thank You cards on high quality paper, and ripped and/or reassembled pieces of some of my forays into printmaking at CNM in 2011.
The frames and mats are also recycled. They are all from local thrift stores including Thrift Town and Goodwill. I purchase, usually for $10 or less, framed posters that come with mats, sometimes done professionally. After opening the frame from the back, I discard the original poster and use the frame and mat for my own original work.
- Elaine Tassy
www.elainetassy.com
Scroll to the bottom of the page for more artist info!
All sizes listed are the framed size of the artwork.
The materials for these collages come from recycled sources, including repurposed printed-on paper given to me by Remarque Gallery, colors and images cut or ripped from People and Entertainment Weekly magazine, white strips from unused Thank You cards on high quality paper, and ripped and/or reassembled pieces of some of my forays into printmaking at CNM in 2011.
The frames and mats are also recycled. They are all from local thrift stores including Thrift Town and Goodwill. I purchase, usually for $10 or less, framed posters that come with mats, sometimes done professionally. After opening the frame from the back, I discard the original poster and use the frame and mat for my own original work.
- Elaine Tassy
www.elainetassy.com
Scroll to the bottom of the page for more artist info!
All sizes listed are the framed size of the artwork.
Chiclets
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 24"x20" (framed) |
Door to Anywhere
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 12"x10" |
Foliage
Elaine Tassy Multimedia collages 17"x12" |
Technicolor Silver Lining
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 24"x20" |
Trying to Fit In
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 22"x22" |
Balloons Aloft
Elaine Tassy
Glass tile mosaic on wooden shutter
22"x19"
Elaine Tassy
Glass tile mosaic on wooden shutter
22"x19"
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Four Wandering Eyes
Elaine Tassy
22"x12" each
Elaine Tassy
22"x12" each
SenegaLove 1
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 12"x10" |
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SenegaLove 2
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 14"x12" |
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SenegaLove 3
Elaine Tassy
Paper collage on wood
28"x22"
Elaine Tassy
Paper collage on wood
28"x22"
Looking Out the Window on the Block
Elaine Tassy Paper collage on plywood 24"x20" |
Avec la Tête
Elaine Tassy Embellished paper collage on wood 26"x26" |
Spam Burrito
Elaine Tassy Paper collage 18"x16" |
Beach Blanket Bingo
Elaine Tassy
Collage of woodcut print on wood
22"x22"
Elaine Tassy
Collage of woodcut print on wood
22"x22"
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Sit Way Down
Elaine Tassy
Three collaged & embellished prints
48"x12"
Elaine Tassy
Three collaged & embellished prints
48"x12"
Tea Picnic
Elaine Tassy Encaustic wax collage 15"x12" |
Snake Plant in Purple Planter
Elaine Tassy Tissue paper and paper collage 20"x16" |
Two-Car Crash Outside Lantern Motel
Elaine Tassy Encaustic wax collage 19"x15" |
Elaine Tassy
Elaine Tassy is a Haitian-American collage artist originally from New Jersey who first displayed her work in 1999. Her work ranges from narrative, capturing memories of life events or travel experiences, to abstract, with a focus most recently on repetition. She enjoys the meditative experience of collage making, and the way that collages, once started, take on lives and directions of their own.
Locally, she has displayed her work in traditional spaces such as Gallery 606, Jemez Springs Art Gallery, and Gallery ABQ, and in spaces where one doesn't go looking for art, including New Mexico Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Eye Clinic, Philips Chapel CME Church, Yhwh Yoga Studio, Mr. Powdrell's Barbecue, and Cien Aguas International School.
She has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and at Two Heads Institute in Bahia, Brazil, and she has studied surface design at Penland Center for the Arts, in Penland, North Carolina, textile collage at Mainline Art Center in the Philadelphia area, printmaking at Central New Mexico Community College, and encaustic and multimedia collage at New Mexico Art League.
In her professional life she is a journalist, and will be moving in February for a job as a reporter at Colorado Public Radio in Denver. In her spare time she also enjoys watching trash reality TV, thrift shopping for clothes and home furnishings, walking in the Bosque, cooking, reading, and listening to true crime podcasts.
Locally, she has displayed her work in traditional spaces such as Gallery 606, Jemez Springs Art Gallery, and Gallery ABQ, and in spaces where one doesn't go looking for art, including New Mexico Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Eye Clinic, Philips Chapel CME Church, Yhwh Yoga Studio, Mr. Powdrell's Barbecue, and Cien Aguas International School.
She has been an artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and at Two Heads Institute in Bahia, Brazil, and she has studied surface design at Penland Center for the Arts, in Penland, North Carolina, textile collage at Mainline Art Center in the Philadelphia area, printmaking at Central New Mexico Community College, and encaustic and multimedia collage at New Mexico Art League.
In her professional life she is a journalist, and will be moving in February for a job as a reporter at Colorado Public Radio in Denver. In her spare time she also enjoys watching trash reality TV, thrift shopping for clothes and home furnishings, walking in the Bosque, cooking, reading, and listening to true crime podcasts.