Billy Copley "Bag Fees" Opening Reception

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Saturday, Feb 12, 2022  7 PM - 10 PM

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The “BAG SERIES”

My ongoing “Bag Series” of collages, is intended to lend multiple meanings to a quotidian object. They are the flimsy, annoying yet indispensable, plastic shopping bags, seen everywhere: flying in the wind, lying in the street, stuck in a tree or being carried home by a passing shopper. A free floating form, ever morphing from container, to animal, to electric guitar, to cartoon head. In the beginning, the “Bags” were carefully painted on plastic sheeting, peeled off and transferred to a paper background. More recently they are made by layering multiple levels of “prepared” rice and mulberry papers.

These “prepared papers” have been painted and hand printed with images or bright patterns of plaids, grids, checker boards and stripes that when cut and glued make up both the background as well as the image itself. Bags not only carry our stuff but are the perfect vehicle to advertise ideas, places or organizations. Building on this, I’ve introduce images from many sources, including cartoons, graphic art, Mexican souvenirs, American folk art and stencils from the paint store.