One dark, snowy evening in a cozy cabin in Big Sky Montana, Emily McAvoy felt her inner art gremlin emerge. Without wifi or electronic entertainment, she and her roommate decided to delve deeply into crafting. That art night in 2014 connected Emily with her collaging creativity, and so started her lifelong journey into the world of all things collage art. 

As a creative with a huge heart and a love language for gift giving, collaging brought Emily profound joy. She found herself spending countless hours shaping all sorts of remixed realities with upcycled magazines and other second hand paper resources. 2022 brought tidings of good news – Emily joined the Mono Arts Council Community Arts Center and Gallery. All of her labors of love rewarded her with a first time entry to an art gallery!

Her continued crafting found her dipping her toes in mixed media, a new thread of inspiration for her art. With the addition of paint and 3-D objects, her remixed realities found a fresh perspective.

A silver lining to a rough patch in her life found her with an odd couple of the perfect timing. At a time in her life where a major injury brought her to bed rest, she found inspiration when called to set up as much art as she could create for her first time as a ‘Featured Artist.’ She poured herself into this show, finding an unstoppable need to express herself in her projects from a deep well of creativity. She found herself awakening in the wee hours of the night, struck by creative forces with an astounding yet pleasant desire to design the workings of her imagination into real life reflections.

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With nature photographs at the core of her artwork, she found herself cutting up ‘reality’ and ‘remixing’ it with her own magical, whimsical flair. 

 

Landscapes became dreamscapes. 

 

Realism became surrealism.

 

Sensibility became whimsy.

In the end, creating this show, remixing this reality, helped heal Emily.

We welcome you to enjoy this collage of her collage art. 

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This Show will open October 9th and run through January 9th.

 

Artist Reception:

Saturday, October 10th from 5 pm to 7 pm

Mono Arts Council Community Art Center & Gallery

501 Old Mammoth Road, Suite #5 (Between Second Chance Thrift Store and Mammoth Realty Group)

 

Refreshments will be served

All are Welcome