Re-BOP! COLLAGE as Obstructions & Disruptions
July 11, 2025-August 22, 2025
Re-Bop! is the third iteration of Bop!, the celebrated collage exhibition series that showcases the parallel ideas of flow in music and flow in collage—where intuition, playful abandon, and spur-of-the-moment change and happenstance are embraced with artistic fervor and verve. Excepted work for Cut Me Up #15 Obstructions and Disruptions will be considered for the 2025 exhibition Re-Bop! at the Simmerling Gallery of the Beverly Arts Center in Chicago https://thebeverlyartscenter.com
“For me, the essence of BOP! is movement and rhythm, the intangible that happens in between looking and feeling. It is something that happens in the process of making a collage and talking to the forms and colors.
If I can hear the picture, I’ve got bop.”
- Paloma Trecka aka Paloma Shaloma
Curators Todd Bartel and Paloma Trecka
Todd Bartel is a visual artist, teacher, writer, and independent curator. He teaches drawing, painting, collage, and conceptual art at the Cambridge School of Weston (MA). He is the founder of the school’s Thompson Gallery, where he mounted 50 exhibitions between 2007-2020.
Instagram: @collagehead | Web: toddbartel.com
Paloma Trecka is an artist and educator based in Chicago. She studied studio art and design for the Theater in Montreal at Concordia University (BFA). She currently teaches about the history of animation at Columbia College Chicago and DePaul University.
Instagram: @paloma_shaloma_xicago | palomashaloma.com
BOP! Chicago at the Dime Gallery 2023 curated by Ray Borchers and Paloma Trecka
BOP! Adventures in Collage 2023.
A group exhibition of 27 artists exploring the medium of collage by way of improvisation and intuition with intention. The show is the second iteration in a series of group shows envisioned and shepherded by Tony Fitzpatrick. BOP! Is curated by Ray Borchers and Paloma Trecka, with the vision of presenting a disparate body of work that carries kinetic energy.
BOP! is the title of the show and a word on loan from the lexicon of Jazz— bebop, a staccato double time rhythm with complex progressions and improvisations. In this next iteration of BOP!, the call is for pieces that expand on the definition of collage while narrowing the focus to a visual push-pull that immerses viewers in the rhythm of the artform. BOP! artists are asked to engage with the medium in an approach steeped in other American artforms. Mainly Jazz, Rock ‘n’ roll, modern dance and film.
BOP! will show us the collage masterworks of those cutting and sticking with verve
⏰OPENS Friday July 7th 5-9pm
It runs from July 7 to September 3
📍The Dime/ T.F. Projects.
1513 N Western Ave, Chicago.
