Collages

Ms. Afrika Abney has had the opportunity to exhibit some of her collages in the past at a wide variety of venues. Additionally, she has donated some of her collages to Esther Productions, Inc. 

When she creates her collages, Ms. Abney focuses on technique, texture, color, shape, form, line and other important visual art elements. Additionally, she firsts paint the background using acrylic paint in some of her collages. While in other collages, she uses her old abstract paintings on plain paper to create her collages and then uses oil pastels. She has not had the opportunity to share her collages with the public in many years nor she had the opportunity to exhibit her collages since 2006. 

"Collage within art was first coined by Cubist artists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, who were the first pioneers of this movement. Existing as the first two artists who worked with different mediums in an attempt to make art, Braque and Picasso began their cutting-edge assemblages around 1910.The overall purpose of using collages in the design process is to bring together visual elements to explore their commonalities. The term collage derives from the French term papiers collés (or découpage), used to describe techniques of pasting paper cut-outs onto various surfaces. It was first used as an artists' technique in the early twentieth century."

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Ms. Abney is currently working on creating several new collages.