Utopia Parkway

Connecting fans of the American collage and assemblage artist Joseph Cornell to share and appreciate his contributions to the world of art.

Friday, April 1, 2011

Cover of House & Garden magazine by Joseph Cornell
May 1945

Utopia Parkway - Fans of Joseph Cornell: I am an artist, fan and collector of assemblage art, especially Joseph Cornell. I create “poem objects” with visual poetics: analogy, metaphor, rhyme and alliteration of color and shape, juxtaposition, and things left unsaid. I am self-taught and self-represented. I am happy to be considered an “outsider artist” or part of the “art brut” genre. These are terms used to label artists to help with marketing or to aid in Internet search results. If it helps us connect, I’m fine using them. In the end connecting with art and artists is a personal journey immune to and from labels. I believe that art either affects us or it doesn’t. Our reaction to art needs no defense or explanation. Not liking a work of art is perfectly acceptable. We explore. We discover. We winnow. A poem or a piece of art needs to hit us somehow. To make us windmill an arm like Pete Townshend. It's what drives us to create and to collect. I believe that any form of art is only successful if the work turns a common item or idea into an uncommon one, creating not only the poem or poem-object, but some form of emotional power chord. Or sometimes just the sense—or possibility—of that kind of alchemy.

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