Surreal images form the landscape of the collagiste works from Hope Kroll.
Begin by dissecting old books, gleaning from them their pictures of birds and insects, obsolete machinery and outdated surgical procedures. Collagiste Hope Kroll combines these images to create a nightmarish world inspired by the likes of Hieronymus Bosch, Peter Bruegel, Henry Darger, Joseph Cornell and Terry Gilliam all permeated by the ghoulish humor of Edward Gorey and still you will not come close to describing this first internet exhibition from Hope Kroll.
Her work is almost a new genre. Stories with images are brought to a higher form as they disturb and delight while they invoke fond memories and awaken dark fears.
Photograph of Hope Kroll
courtesy of Vincent Versace.
Current Publications available
on-line featuring Hope's work
The Collage Art of Hope Kroll
By Cecil Touchon
Paperback, 100 pages
available from Lulu.com
"Kroll's work explores the nature of the heart and mind in a way that is playful and yet insightful calling up tenderness as well as terror and equal parts of rapture and repulsion."
by Cecil Touchon
The Collage Art of Hope Kroll
By Cecil Touchon
Paperback, 100 pages
available from Lulu.com
"Kroll's work explores the nature of the heart and mind in a way that is playful and yet insightful calling up tenderness as well as terror and equal parts of rapture and repulsion."
by Cecil Touchon