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C.R. artist combines puzzles to create collages & so can you
https://www.thegazette.com/art/c-r-artist-combines-puzzles-to-create-collages-so-can-you/
C.R. artist combines puzzles to create collages & so can you
Diana Nollen
Apr. 13, 2020 8:00 am, Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 10:08 am
When Mel Andringa empties a jigsaw puzzle box, he doesn't see a pile of pieces, he sees a pile of possibilities.
And you can, too, if you know what to look for.
Like so many others, his earliest puzzle memories reach back to childhood. Unlike almost anyone else, his puzzle creations hang in corporate offices, in private collections and in museums, including the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.
They begin like ordinary, everyday puzzles, but by the time he's through with them, they emerge as works of art holding delightful surprises for viewers. Like 'Big Rac,” where raccoons peer out of a multilayered fast-food burger; or several variations on 'American Gothic”; and 'Floating Pieta,” where Michelangelo's masterpiece sculpture of the slain Christ cradled in his mother's lap creates a waterfall in the midst of an autumn river reverie.
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Diana Nollen
Apr. 13, 2020 8:00 am, Updated: Dec. 12, 2022 10:08 am
When Mel Andringa empties a jigsaw puzzle box, he doesn't see a pile of pieces, he sees a pile of possibilities.
And you can, too, if you know what to look for.
Like so many others, his earliest puzzle memories reach back to childhood. Unlike almost anyone else, his puzzle creations hang in corporate offices, in private collections and in museums, including the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art and the University of Iowa Stanley Museum of Art.
They begin like ordinary, everyday puzzles, but by the time he's through with them, they emerge as works of art holding delightful surprises for viewers. Like 'Big Rac,” where raccoons peer out of a multilayered fast-food burger; or several variations on 'American Gothic”; and 'Floating Pieta,” where Michelangelo's masterpiece sculpture of the slain Christ cradled in his mother's lap creates a waterfall in the midst of an autumn river reverie.
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