For commissions, project inquiries, or to purchase original collages, please contact me via email:
kcb@breakingbabb.com
ARTIST STATEMENT
I am a collage artist working with cut paper, photocopy, and mixed media. Inspired by toys and horror movies of the '80s and '90s, my work features mutants, monsters, and demons- while touching on themes of mass production, degradation, reiteration, and advertising.
Education
2017: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio Art, Cum Laude, emphasis in illustration and printmaking at University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, MO.
Selected Exhibitions
2026: OFF-PRINSTE, The People’s Building - Aurora, Colorado
2023: 4th Annual Open Theme Exhibition, The In Art Gallery - Online Exhibition
2022: Faculty Portrait Show, UCM Gallery of Art & Design – Warrensburg, Missouri
2022: 3rd Annual Open Theme Exhibition, The In Art Gallery - Online Exhibition
2020: Threshold, Nightjar Gallery - Kansas City, Missouri
2020: Subterranean Sidewalks, Artist and Craftsman Supply - Kansas City, Missouri
2018: ICON10 (Motion Commotion), College for Creative Studies - Detroit, Michigan
2017: Virtual to Physical, Manhattan Graphics Center – New York, New York
2016: Propaganda, UCM Gallery of Art & Design – Warrensburg, Missouri
2015: In Dreams, UCM Gallery of Art & Design – Warrensburg, Missouri
2015: Under the Break, UCM Gallery of Art & Design – Warrensburg, Missouri
2014: Monster in the Closet, UCM Gallery of Art & Design – Warrensburg, Missouri
Published In
Creative Quarterly no. 70, 2023
3x3 Annual no. 19, 2022
Creative Quarterly no. 67, 2022
Excuse Me Mag #6, Spring 2022
Excuse Me Mag #2, Winter 2020
Creative Quarterly no. 56, 2019
Creative Quarterly no. 54, 2018
Creative Quarterly no. 53, 2018
Brut Magazine #3, Summer 2018
ArtCultZine #5, Fall 2017
Brut Magazine, Summer 2016
Featured On
Trump le Monde, 2019-2020
Ladder & Key (interview), Summer 2018
The Postdigital Printmaker, Spring 2016
Awards / Recognition
Creative Quarterly no. 70, Winner: 2022
3x3 International no. 19, Merit: 2022
Creative Quarterly no. 67, Winner: 2022
Creative Quarterly no. 62, Runner Up: 2020
Creative Quarterly no. 57, Runner Up: 2019
Creative Quarterly no. 56, Winner: 2019
3x3 International no. 16, Honorable Mentions: 2019
Creative Quarterly no. 55, Runner Up: 2019
Creative Quarterly no. 54, Winner: 2018
Creative Quarterly no. 53, Winner: 2018
Creative Quarterly no. 52, Runner Up: 2018
3x3 International no. 14, Honorable Mentions: 2017
49th Annual Citation Exhibition Award: 2017
John W. Lynch Scholarship in Art: 2016
Clients
PB&TAT
KC Zine Con
Paragraph Line
Planet Bizarro Press
Psychedelic Horror Press
Rooster Republic Press
Strange Edge Publications
Transient Creative Group
we are the karma kids
UCM Dept. of Art and Design
Bruce Lee Review