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A Brief Bio or Personal Summary
Catapulted into world fame by deeds of indescribable daring, three men have sworn to tread the path which all people fear... the dangerous road beyond the things we know! They call themselves the Collagemonauts. In the winter of 2011, Marty Gordon, Tim Manthey and Craig van den Bosch began their friendship and artistic collaboration. Contemplations on the Dialectical Utopian Vision, a collage exhibition curated by van den Bosch at the Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle initially introduced the three artists to one another and showcased Manthey and Gordon's first collaborative works of art.Modeled after the Exquisite Corpse technique invented by the Surrealists around the early twentieth century, Gordon, Manthey and van den Bosch began work on three collaborative collage journals in August of 2011. Each artist initiated a journal, rotating it among one another at the end of each month. Full of surprise, laughter and sometimes disgust (it's Netter enough), these meetings became a source of friendship and inspiration that pushed each artist outside of their creative comfort zone. While managing to reach a collaborative compromise, the artists established a few ground rules agreeing that no image would be sacred, giving each other complete freedom to add to, cover over or even destroy one another’s work. Working within these parameters, Gordon, Manthey and van den Bosch finished the journals in February of 2012. No permanent injuries of a physical or psychological nature occurred to the artist ego, at least any that will be overtly claimed.Finishing the original journal collaboration, the three began working on larger collage pieces. During this phase, an artist friend dubbed the three with the moniker Collagemonauts which seemed fitting given the themes and motifs that emerged naturally throughout their work; space, religion, indigenous people, and medical science. The Collagemonauts consider themselves visual pop culture anthropologists, telling a new story by recontextualizing found paper artifacts
Personal Facebook URL
www.facebook.com/Collagemonauts
Publishing History
Unfortunately, not yet
Influences & Inspirations
Jack Kirby, space exploration, the films of Terry Gilliam, science and biology, Salvador Dali and surrealism in general, Mike Mignola, religion, Lynn Varley, psychodelia, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hanna Barbera, and music on vinyl. Obviously, these are just a few of our favorite things. It's impossible to name them all.
What are you currently working on?
A collage-based graphic novel presenting the adventures of the Collagemonauts.
Why should people vote for you?
We are deeply committed to this project. We have been working on it for 15 months and have just over 40 pages in various states of progress. As the Collagemonauts, we have grown from collaborating on journals to creating and exhibiting art in galleries to building actual Collagemonaut space suits which adds a performance element to our live appearances. With all that we've accomplished, we still have universes to conquer. We need your help so that we can realize the dream of publishing the first ever collage graphic novel.
Collagemonauts
