Utopia Parkway

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

Wednesday, July 9, 2014

Recent Acquisition! After bidding and not winning about a half dozen times at a half dozen different auction houses. ...

Sunday, March 16, 2014

Homage to Joseph Cornell - Nicole Repack (aka Jocelyn Superstar)

New Acquisition, March 2014. Homage to Joseph Cornell , 2008 by Nicole Repack, aka Jocelyn Superstar. Mixed media assemblage: cut pap...

Saturday, February 8, 2014

I want to call your attention to a recent acquisition, which I consider remarkable. And the picture will not do it justice. An artist n...

Monday, May 27, 2013

New acquisition: Exhibition poster for Joseph Cornell: Boxes and Collages. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Fall 1989. 18 1/8" x 23 1...

Monday, December 3, 2012

Joseph Cornell BBC Documentary Available on YouTube

The full 44-minute version of Robert McNab's 1991 long, hard-to-find BBC documentary on Joseph Cornell is finally available on YouTube. ...

Monday, April 16, 2012

Alternate Cornell Catalog from the PEM Show

Since Lynda Roscoe Hartigan's lovely and comprehensive book/catalog Navigating the Imagination was not ready in time for the Washingto...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Cornell-Nathan

An entertaining, educational, and thoughtful post from my new friend, Anita Muse in good ol' New Hampshire, USA http://anitanh.blogspo...

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About Me

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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