Bob Voigts Collage
“I don’t focus on the feeling of a piece. That comes after I play with ideas of chance, opposites, mundaneness, curiosity, memory, wonder, contradiction and juxtaposition.”
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This piece is built from scraps of old collages, photography, found ephemera and packaging material. It has a warm color palette contrasting with the cool pink tones.
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This piece is made of slices of found packaging, hand painted surfaces, shipping packaging, old collages and drawings. It has a lush unusual palette of dark maroon, teal, light blue and earth tones. It bristles with facets of truth and lies.
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This piece has a simple dichotomic structure with a connecting bridge of personal photography, found ephemera, an old dot matrix printout, and old collages from the 70s. It has a slate and tan color palette punctuated by brake light red highlights.
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This collage is built with a piece of an old collage from the mid 70s combined with new drawings, and scraps of digital ephemera. The geometric structure holds, while under stress from the curved back of the alligator.
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This piece has an unusual palette of rust and dark blue with pops of yellow and orange and teal. The imagery gives a feeling of 80s glam meets JFK’s space program meets the Gordian Knot.
Bob Voigts
Bob Voigts grew up near Chicago, IL. Mostly self-taught, he works in acrylic, mixed media, collage, as well as digital media.
