Artist: Jamie Kovacs
Title: Placebo
Year created: 2019
Medium: Collage on Prebuilt Canvas
Height (inches): 18
Width (inches): 24
Depth (inches): 1
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
Description of piece:
Placebo is one of my favorite UK pop bands. I have been listening to them since the 90's. Their music puts me in a happy place. Each individually hand ripped piece of paper is a piece of my happiness glued down in to that piece. It's a part of my soul.
Artist bio:
Jamie Kovács is a passionate collage and mixed media artist, originally from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Inspired by her love of pop icons and the unique beauty she sees in everything, her highly textural abstract works often evoke the iconic joy brought to us by the cinema or musicians and sometimes just nature in general.
Kovács has concentrated on pop art through collage. Her collages explore a unique technique of using hand ripped magazine paper and glue. "I absolutely love music and movies and comic books and well; anything geeky, so a lot of these pieces are based on musicians, actors, and iconic people. I continue to build my portfolio by working as large as I can and for as long as I can do it. I am constantly evolving these collages into different styles. Just recently my new style involves 3-D collage, which involves sculpting Styrofoam, and hand ripped recycled magazine paper."
Jamie is getting away from pop icons and will be focusing on a new 6-piece series with 3D sculpted collage. Jamie has been labeled as the Andy Warhol of Collages. Her collages explore themes such as the symbolism and the significance of life and different belief systems. Her large-scale abstract works often include recycled reminders of her love and interests in bits of paper, or eco-friendly / organic materials. Manipulating the texture with many layers of paint and glue and Styrofoam, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering, scraping, piling up textures to give added dimension, creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer in for closer inspection.