Simone Pipek

A true New Yorker with all the good, the bad, and the inbetween for almost 20years. Thus born and bred in Germany, where Recycling is ingrained in your veins from birth, I take great joy and pride in using and re-using materials that have led a life before they fell into my hands. I enjoy skimming antique stores for frames, flea markets for vintage photographs, art books, dictionaries, and often select tear sheets from current magazines bound to be thrown into the trash.

I love to be part of that cycle, by enhancing each item’s life expectancy – and as a side effect, help the environment just a little bit.

In the stream of life we connect and disconnect as humans with each other, often coincidental, by chance - and my harmoniously pairing this vintage map with that bold gold fish on a two-dimensional surface resembles this process of building unexpected relations - In short, my collages imitate life.

To me, working on a collage is a beautiful journey in which i learned to dive deep into my emotions and can get lost in love and life.

I am thriving to assemble these positive emotions on paper and hope that the beholder of my art works feels a little – or a lot – of this life embracing happiness, discovers the uniqueness o...

Living and breathing the air in pulsating New York City since 1999