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Pushing 40: an Exhibition of Collage Artworks
Chicago artist and Andersonville resident Kelly Boner will present “Pushing 40,” an exhibition of 40 collage pieces created between 2019-2026 at the Clark Street Trading Post beginning March 27.
The exhibition, held in partnership with the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce, features paper collages constructed using materials from magazines including fashion, nature, and adult publications dating back to 1945. At a time when the nature of art is being reexamined due to the proliferation of generative Artificial Intelligence, this collection embodies the antithesis of prompt-based creation. The pieces in “Pushing 40” evoke the sensations of paging through decades old magazines, taking scissors to paper, shuffling the scraps on the page to form a composition, and the physical process of art-making.
The frames holding the pieces were sourced from estate sales and thrift stores. These elements are specifically paired, collage to frame, as an extension of the nature of art itself: bringing together the disparate and discarded to form new and beautiful wholes. In this collection, Boner threads color, form, image, and text to evoke recontextualized surreality.
An Opening Reception will take place from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. on Friday, March 17 at Clark Street Trading Post, 5706 N. Clark Street, Chicago. The exhibition runs through July 31.
Boner began her work in the collage medium at age 12, and this particular collection of works reflects her path and practice as an artist in the decades that followed.
