Orion Kugel

Iʼve been cut open a few times and put back together with new parts. I grew up having surgeries; here and there getting a tune up like a car. Though, I always had to
smile. It seemed like the right thing to do. I suppose I know this had a direct connection to me creating collage art. Like a life of odd omens it gave me the inspiration to
translate realities though cutting and pasting.
I like to think of myself as a surgeon working with pieces of paper, cutting out around the edges to make new combinations. Itʼs within these new combinations that I
get to make backdrops to dreams or other scenes. These paper places sometimes have flowers with faces or mushrooms that are bigger than stars.
I try not to take myself too seriously. I like to see people smile when they look at my art. I find it fun to take apart the staged realities of fashion magazines and the
repetitions that pass between them all and put them back together in strange juxtapositions. Itʼs this fun that I like to pass on to the viewers; a little silliness in a serious world, a surreal view of the familiar.

University of New Hampshire- Bachelor's of Arts

November 2017- WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, NH- "Launch- Cohort Show"

August 2017- Local Grocer, North Conway, NH- Contributing artist

July 2017- Revolution Records, Conway, NH- Contributing artist

May 2017- The Fabulous Cold Meat Exquisite Corpse, Barcelona, Spain- Collaborative artist

March 2017- Artist Residence in Chapala, Mexico

March 2017- Frontside Grind, North Conway, NH- Contributing artist

February 2017- Denmark Art Center, Denmark, ME- Contributing artist

January 2017- Ellis River Art Gallery, Jackson, NH- "Winter Tales"

December 2016- WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, NH- Small Works Show

December 2016- Poster Art for Way of the Headband Show at Top of the Ninth- Fryburg, ME

June 2016- Poster art for Way of the Headband show at Top of the Ninth- Fryburg, ME

December 2015- WREN Gallery, Bethlehem, NH- Small Works Show

November 2015- Ellis River Art Gallery, Jackson, NH- Small Works Show

July 2015- Facilitator of "Painted Paper Places" WREN Gallery- Workshop mixing painting with collage

July 2015- Photographer for Femme Fatales of the North- Art in Place: Water- Painting on Conway Lake, NH

July 2015- Photographer for Femme Fatales of the North- Art in Place: Tundra- Painting on Mount Washin...