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Laurie Bergren
@afinestory.bsky.social
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Retired lawyer, now an artist like I wanted to be in the first place. Painting, collage, and handmade books. Fiercely liberal, stubbornly optimistic, working to win hearts & minds one conversation at a time.
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“Pundit,” a work of conceptual art consisting of multiple martinis duct taped to panel. Comes with Certificate of Authenticity. Inspired by that stupid banana, the official title of which is “Comedian.” Call me, Sothebys. I can make one for you as soon as I’m done drinking this one. #AYearForArt
A black panel with a large white circle in the center. In the center of the circle, a bottle of gin, a bottle of dry vermouth, a martini glass, and three pimento-stuffed olives are affixed with rainbow duct tape.
November 24, 2024 at 8:33 PM
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“Redefining Gotcha Journalism,” 13x19 inches (33x48 cm) #mixedmedia #collage on paper. #artoftheday #AYearForArt
A collage depicting Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski lying on their backs on a crumpled American flag under a platform which they hold up with their feet. The platform supports a twisted podium with a large “X” on the front from which Donald Trump is spewing a vile green torrent of gloating rhetoric. Mika is asking, “What are we doing here, Joe?” to which Scarbourough replies, “We’re afraid of the tiny man, Mika. Don’t make me explain this to you again.” Above it all is a large cumulus cloud from which Mika’s father, former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezenski, looks down on what is happening below and thinks, “Gotta say we expected better of her.”
November 22, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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#mixedmedia #alteredbook #collage titled “In the Dawn, Armed with a Burning Patience, We Shall Enter the Splendid Cities (Artur Rimbaud Calls the 2020 Election),” joyfully created the day after Election Day four years. Now it’s aspirational. #resist
Panoramic (8.5x21 inches) mixed media collage art. In the background, a brilliant orange sunrise is coming up over a rough, mountainous landscape, and expanding into a purple sky on which hand lettered text reads: “In the dawn, armed with a burning patient, we shall enter the splendid cities.” Just above the top of a low hill in the center, a tagline is written: “Artur Rimbaud calls the 2020 Election.” The foreground, in shades of light to very dark green, over which is stenciled a translucent texture of small, pale rectangles of varying sizes, suggests an ancient urban environment, damaged but resilient.
November 20, 2024 at 7:01 PM
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The complete book. #AYearForArt #Bookbinding #MixedMedia #Collage
Collage art in the form of an accordion book—full piece unfolded and pictured standing upright on a red table.
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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"The Chief Feature of My Entertainment," a mixed media collage work in the form of an accordion book. The text reads: "The chief feature of my entertainment is that it contains so many things that have nothing to do with it. —Artemus Ward" #AYearForArt #Bookbinding #MixedMedia #Collage
Collage art (part 1 of 4) showing a fisherman wearing a tall crown against a brightly painted red, green, and yellow background with a large fish about to swim past him. Is the fisherman underwater? Or is the fish swimming through the air? The answer is unclear. Block text reads: "THE CHIEF FEATURE OF MY ENTERTAINMENT"—this is the beginning of an Artemus Ward quote that continues through the rest of the work. Collage art (part 2 of 4) showing what appears to be a rice bowl made of a large tea wrapper. The bowl contains a pair of chopsticks, a round pink and blue shape reminiscent of a fish cake, a Chinese language shipping label, and a small image of an old Rolling Stone magazine cover with a black & white photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono holding hands and not wearing any clothes. Block text reads: "IS THAT IT CONTAINS"—this is the second part of the Artemus Ward quote that continues through the rest of the work. Collage art (part 3 of 4) showing a colored pencil drawing of a woman's face and neck. She is wearing a giant green and black butterfly on her head. Block text reads: "SO MANY THINGS"—this is the third part of an Artemus Ward quote that continues through the work. Collage art (part 4 of 4) showing a man and woman swing dancing against a brightly painted red and yellow/green background under a giant black and white houndstooth spike heeled shoe that serves as a canopy. Block text reads: "THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH IT"—this is the final part of an Artemus Ward quote that continues through the work.
November 19, 2024 at 11:34 PM
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Thank you! It’s so satisfying, isn’t it? Here, have some Gingerbread!
November 18, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Every holiday season I make about 50 pounds of chocolates. The rest of the year they live on my lock screen.
November 18, 2024 at 5:10 AM
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This Robert Frost poem, written in 1928, feels eerily appropriate. Lines 10-12 in particular.
Once By The Pacific, by Robert Frost The shattered water made a misty din. Great waves looked over others coming in, And thought of doing something to the shore That water never did to land before. The clouds were low and hairy in the skies, Like locks blown forward in the gleam of eyes. You could not tell, and yet it looked as if The shore was lucky in being backed by cliff, The cliff in being backed by continent; It looked as if a night of dark intent Was coming, and not only a night, an age. Someone had better be prepared for rage. There would be more than ocean-water broken Before God's last Put out the Light was spoken.
November 17, 2024 at 6:00 AM
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A collage piece I made a while back. Thanks for asking! I'd love to connect with other artists here who work in traditional media.
Collage art titled "Masters of Deception: a Predictably Dull Film Starring Tawdry Heartburn and What's-His-Name," showing a woman, her husband, and the husband's girlfriend. On the right is a lunch counter at which five people with their backs to the viewer, all engaged in a conversation about whether or not to tell the woman that her husband is cheating on her with someone who's been pretending to be her friend.
November 17, 2024 at 5:17 AM
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Troll wants to be blocked. Let's all grant his wish.
November 17, 2024 at 4:17 AM