Helen Kauder

OPENING SUNDAY! Please join @lesfinn , @matthewgshelley and me at our joint opening reception for Building Blocks, a 3-person collage exhibition @keyesgallerywwml , Sunday May 17, 4-6pm. Show runs till June 8, open during Library Hours.

I am pleased to announce a solo exhibition of recent collages. The long curved wall at the Moira Fitzsimmons Aarons Gallery features 50 of my daily warm ups using only scraps (echoes of what’s left from earlier work); the other pieces are from a series that constructs a dialogue with famous Rennaissance portraits and sculptures— echoes of art history. Please join me at the closing reception on November 5. Thanks Caryn Azoff @ca.art for the invitation.

Why Not Ask for More? 6.5 x 8 inches. This small collage is going off to New Orleans for the exhibition “Bird On a Wire” at LeMieux Galleries where it will remain on view through KolajFest 2026. Thank you to @kasini and @kolajmagazine for including my work.

@cutmeupmagazine is one of my favorite and inspiring corners of the collage world, conceived by the indefatigable champion of collage @andreaburgay . I am beyond thrilled to be included in “Razzle Dazzle”, the next issue curated by @craigdeppenauge . I submitted 3 pieces; here are the 2 that were not chosen. Closer to publication time, I’ll share the piece that will be part of the issue. I’m really looking forward to seeing all the submissions as they trickle out across the collage community. * 1.        RD. 8.25 x 10.25 inches, Includes elements of Issue 16 by Katlin Schneider and Emily Ortman. I was thinking about camouflage, and the notion of being bamboozled. @schnei_kat @art_by_emilyjean ➡️➡️ * 2. Jewel Box. Not a collage in a conventional glue and paste sense (but when has collage ever been conventional?), but an accumulation of bits of real and paper bling given a home within a lucite grid. Work from prior issues by Antonio Ingenito, Louise De St.Jorre, and Emily Ortman (Issue 15) @metalflood @luludsj

I began my collage journey at Five Points Arts during the pandemic, with a weeklong workshop taught by Stephen Maine. It’s a thrill to return there as part of Mind, Heart, and Body. I’ll be showing a selection of my French Curve Isometric Helix works, alongside some wonderful artists. Thanks to Karl Goulet @kgoulet_art for including me. Opens May 8-June 13. Artist Talk May 29. Hope to see you in Torrington! #analogcollage #handcutcollage #frenchcurve #isometrichelix #connecticutcollages

May 1 Closing Reception for the @ctwomenartists show @artleagueofnewbritain juried by @janetmwarner . Come say hi! I’ll be there from 5:30 pm till closing. Very proud to have this collage “Sensory Jolt”, from 2025, selected for inclusion.

Body/Building HE/SHE. 4.29.26. 12 x 11 in. Blind collage process on the left (after cutting fragments, turned everything over to reassemble blind except for the minarets), then went searching for something to juxtapose. #analogcollage #collagesanctuaries #contemporarycollagemagazine #faivofficinacollage @collage_expo @visual_duuck

Mamaroneck Artists Guild Gallery, 21st Annual Open Juried Small Works Show Juror Ellen Hawley selected over 80 artworks for exhibition. This year was deemed a success with double the submissions and the design of the installation maximizing the number of works on view. Hawley presented each award and offered an overview of the show to a packed gallery, “Each award recipient demonstrates a deeply authentic voice - often part of a larger body of work - with a strong sense of materiality and clarity of expression.” 1st Place: Helen Kauder These three collage works morph, contort, and challenge perception, pushing dimensional boundaries through remarkable depth, shadow, and spatial illusion as forms appear to float. Part of her Isometric Helix Series, Kauder employs the French curve as a visual metaphor—suggesting layered perspectives, the carving of negative space, and a navigation between past and present. 2nd Place: George Kimmerling’s cloud series invites us to step back and expand our view beyond the small frames. His work attempts to capture the impossible—fleeting moments tethered to specific times and places. 3rd Place: Carole Kunstadt uses 19th-century handwritten music manuscripts and thread to “compose,” or perhaps re-compose, a new visual language. Musical notation is deconstructed, lifted from its original function, and reinterpreted through expressive mark-making. Honorable Mention: George Radwan’s small houses evoke a wabi-sabi sensibility, expressing the honesty of metal and the beauty of age—embracing imperfection, irregularity, and the quiet poetry of rust. Congratulations to all of the award winners. All works are for sale. #livewithart #giftart @mamaroneckartistsguild @ellenhawley_curates @collaging_not_aging @gfkimmerling @ckunstadt @garadwan

Thanks to Juror Ellen Hawley @ellenhawley_curates for awarding First Place to my collage “Instantiation” in the 21St Annual @mamaroneckartistsguild Juried Small Works show. I am truly honored. And I was tickled to see that a mysterious someone called the gallery to put a hold on another piece. ➡️➡️ for the 3 works on view and me & Ellen.

Deep End. 5 x 7 in, collage on board. 4.20.26. I recently discovered “Gessobord”, a luscious surface on which to glue collage paper. I can’t wait to do more—no warping or curling to combat. This little Viewing Room is headed to the @eliwhitneymuseum for their Leonardo benefit next month. Please come out and support their work on May 14.

This was one of my @cutmeupmagazine Razzle Dazzle Issue attempts, but I decided not to send this one in so am sharing it with you now….I really enjoyed learning about the history and meanings of the word. I also did some tape transfer from images in the prior issue in addition to the cut and paste. Sending good wishes to everyone getting their work in for today’s deadline! PS today’s @nytimes story on the ships in Hormuz is today’s hi tech version of Razzle Dazzle.

Viewing Rooms 54 and 55. 4.8.26. A3 sized (11.7 x 16.5 in) cut fragments on watercolor paper. This work was inspired by Emily Morgan @lovely_but_dead and the “Blind Collage” technique, cutting images, turning them over, and reassembling the pieces without knowing what is what. I modified this technique by using 3/4 of the pieces, taping them together and then turning over and adding the remaining bits.