Wilder Collage x Courtney Minor—
Join artist Courtney Minor in the Wilder Membership as she presents an Artist Talk from a residency she’s at in France!
Tuesday, March 5th | 9am PST, 12pm EST
I’m so excited to welcome Courtney and I can't wait to hear all about her and her work. I hope you can join us!
Join us! -> https://www.patreon.com/wildercollage
Courtney Minor is Multidisciplinary artist specializing in collage, photography/film, assemblage and product design. Her work is rooted in her emotions, psychology/mental health, memories, travels, and love of science fiction.
Minor was born in Houston, Texas, USA, in 1984 and is a self taught Collagist at her core. Though taught the basics of art in elementary school & winning art awards at her private school, Minor took the long way around to becoming a professional artist. Early art mentor Kelvin Coney encouraged her to pursue her art, convincing her to do her first collage commission as an adult in 2007. However, between grammar school and that one off commission, Minor created no artworks until the winter of 2018. Working in her corporate job, she was unhappy and looked for an outlet for her creative musings. In an attempt to get away from it all, she flew to Vietnam for a break and began photographing herself, the locals and her surroundings. There she got her first idea to adhere her photographs to a canvas… to create a more thoughtful collage than what she had done prior. Upon returning to the USA, she delved head first into creating her collage works, first by printing her photographs to canvas paper then pasting images at varied scales onto the base canvas photograph. She began exploring incorporating other mediums such as acrylic paint and found object into her initial works. Her friends and mentor encouraged her to begin showing her work in the summer of 2019. Minor went on to an Instagram account, show her work Kell’s the Warrior Part 2 at Hang Night at the Heath Gallery in Harlem, NYC and allow a friend share her work with the art curator of Red Rooster Harlem. After that, as the saying goes, the rest was history.