Gather In with Donny Phan: Uncanny Collage – Blend the familiar with the unfamiliar!
Join us for our monthly Art and Craft Night, featuring one of our artists-in-residence, Donny Phan / @planttecture!
Come explore uncanny collage with Donny, blending the familiar with the unfamiliar as he guides you through your own collage project. Whether your vision is minimalist, maximalist, or total chaos, there’s room for it here. Supplies are provided, but we encourage you to bring any found and printed materials that speak to you.
Donny Phan is an ARTogether artist-in-residence and collagist based in Oakland. His project, plant-tecture, is his experimental playground to arrange, edit, add, subtract, cut, paste, and illustrate an otherworldly utopia with a little dystopia.
Wednesday, Nov 11th
Between 5 – 8pm
ARTogether Center
1200 Harrison Street, Oakland, CA
ARTogether will provide all necessary materials. Please RSVP so we can make sure we have enough supplies!
Gather In: Art and Craft Community Nights are casual, drop-in, creative hangouts that take place every 2nd Wednesday of the month from 5 – 8 PM.
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Bring your own found and printed materials to make it yours!
Optional: Bring a snack to share
Featured Artist:
Donny Phan’s craft is a love letter to his nonhumans: past and present. The dried plant is central to his practice as it holds memory, transformation, and temporality. He is influenced by the concepts of otherness and universal impermanence. He was a comic-loving kid who dreamt of becoming a mutant with superpowers. The X-Men narrative was an allegory to his own experience of being different and marginalized. To stay out of trouble, his parents gave him tools to create his own superheroes. Imagination is a superpower. plant-tecture is his experimental playground to arrange, edit, add, subtract, cut, paste, and illustrate an otherworldly utopia of metamorphosed flora and fauna. Freed from anthropocentrism, they reclaim agency over their environments. His work explores a reversal of power (not as revenge but as rebalancing) and process is through play, unexpected materials, juxtapositions, and subtle absurdity.