Miniature Collages - at Bryant Gallery East Nashville
4.75"x4.75" on dark varnished wood
Fairytale Collages
These started as a challenge; I had just received a 1924 "The Illustrated London News" and started playing with some of its exquisite drawings. Though I'm not usually attracted to ephemera, I wanted to see what could be done. I continue to dwell on these pieces and really enjoy the mythical stories suggested by the characters while trying to make them work with all of my other usual elements. "In her Fairytale Series, Haddad’s masterful precision with whites is a different approach to translucence, giving an airy, ethereal interpretation ..." Art Now Nashville, reviews
The Art of Collage
All things can be connected - with subtle intimacy, remote open space or suffocating closeness - as artists, we can contrive relationships between even the most disparate objects. This is the mystique that draws me to collage and I am as likely to add found paper to a painting as apply paint to fix a collage.
Collage liberates words and objects from their original intention. How else might the page of an anatomy textbook or a scrap of chair caning end up on the walls of an art museum? More than just an assemblage of disparate pieces, collage takes things that were never meant to be art and turns them into just that. Lisa Haddad’s artwork incorporates images from all facets of life — from office papers to word search puzzles — as reference to the overabundance of information and imagery in our daily lives. The resulting work incorporates reality without duplicating it.
— Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene
— Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene
An "In Situ" Collage for Nashville Arts Magazine -
When given back-issues of Nashville Arts and the mission to come up with a collage for our magazine, artist Lisa Haddad dug through office recycling bins and shipping boxes to come up with this custom piece. She envisioned a finished product that would reflect not only our vivid and colorful magazine, but the layers of white paper through which it’s born. Lisa’s fine art collage has most recently been described as “reference to the overabundance of information and imagery in our daily lives... incorporating reality without duplicating it.” - Laura Hutson, Nashville Scene. Indeed, though limited to the materials of this magazine, the finished product was also a visual journey which has ultimately taken on a life of its own. Each of her pieces, which are most often a combination of prepared and found papers integrated with applications of paint, crayon, graphite - becomes an environment, and many of Haddad’s collages are named for places, real and imagined.
Collage has surfaced again and again in the fine art world form Braque and Picasso’s still-life assemblages using wallpaper and cafe menus, to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock who cut up and reassembled their own abstract canvases. All seem to be driven by the need to compose with and integrate the materials at hand. Present day collagists have more imagery readily available than ever before and the juxtaposition of potential elements is limitless.
Collage has enjoyed a renewed popularity and Lisa has been involved with international collage groups and most recently as a founding member of the Nashville Collage Collective, local artists who have come together to explore this exciting branch of fine art.
Collage has surfaced again and again in the fine art world form Braque and Picasso’s still-life assemblages using wallpaper and cafe menus, to Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock who cut up and reassembled their own abstract canvases. All seem to be driven by the need to compose with and integrate the materials at hand. Present day collagists have more imagery readily available than ever before and the juxtaposition of potential elements is limitless.
Collage has enjoyed a renewed popularity and Lisa has been involved with international collage groups and most recently as a founding member of the Nashville Collage Collective, local artists who have come together to explore this exciting branch of fine art.
The Nashville Collage Collective
To view collaborative and individual works and find out about upcoming events, please go to: nashvillecollagecollective.com
The International Collage Exchange
These are 12 of my submissions to the International Collage Exchange. One piece from each of the hundreds of artists who have taken part in previous International Collage Exhibitions/Exchanges (previously called Bakers Dozen) can be found on: outofsight.co.nz.
