San Francisco Collage Collective art opening tomorrow::

Month Year WestSide Art House & Jazz Club Art Opening & Live Jazz Party Friday Oct 21st 5pm-10pm Exhibit by S.F. Collage Collective "Ekstasis" Live Music With WestSide Jazz Club Free Admission Drinks by Donation Show Title "Ekstasis" The San Francisco Collage Collective is a group of local collage artists who have been working together since 2006. It is a loose knit group of artists from a variety of disciplines and varying degrees of formal art training, who gather together to make collage works. The primary idea is to democratize art by inviting anyone to participate. Since 2006, over 50 artists have worked with the collective. This current show at the WestSide Art House is the collective's first show in San Francisco in 2 years. This show includes works by artists who have previously exhibited with the collective including Gustavo Rivera, Rob Reger, Kathryn Kain, Aimee Friberg, Aung Aung Taik, Chuck Gonzalez, Matt Sullivan, Matt Springman, Rod Ciferri, and Matt Gonzalez. Artists showing with the collective for the first time include Karen Imperial, Danielle Rathbun, Tony Hall, Gary Birnbaum, Mark van Proyen, Roberta Scott, and Joe Engler. Some of the artists work with figurative elements, while others work purely abstractly. There are a variety of different methods employed to construct each piece. Some of the artists utilize magazines, album covers, found materials, and cardboard. Others use textile samples, paint chips, and painted pieces they themselves have created. Exhibition invites, original photographs, and colored paper are among the varied sources these artists employ. To learn more visit our website at http://sfcollagecollective.wordpress.com/ Aimee Friberg Gustavo Rivera Rob Reger Danielle Rathbun Karen Imperial Matt Springman Matt Sullivan Mark Van Proyen Kathryn Kain Matt Gonzalez Aung Aung Taik Roberta Scott Chuck Gonzalez Gary Birnbaum Jim Dorenkott Rod Ciferri Tony Hall Joe Engler Stephanie Vernier -------------------------------