Wild Flowers at Collage-O-Rama 2025 in Seattle

Written By tf
A brick wall interior, with a window to another building at the upper righthand side of the photo. On the brick wall, an installation of exuberant, 3-D flowers in abstract shapes, freely painted in blues, greens, reds, and yellows.

Wild Flowers, Torea Frey, 2025, installed at Seattle’s Slip Gallery

Pleased to have installed a vibrant, blooming garden of oversize Wild Flowers for Collage-O-Rama—a monthlong celebration of the compulsion to cut, paste, create, and remix—at Seattle’s Slip Gallery. The show runs May 9 to June 7, 2025, and is put on by Special Agent Collage Collective, an artist project created by Andrea Lewicki. Opening weekend, which coincided with both the Belltown Art Walk and World Collage Day, was positively electric, and I hope you’ll visit if you’re in the area. Events, open collage time, and so much amazing collage artwork … what more can you ask for?

I originally developed this series of flat works on paper, while a fellow at VCCA. They grew from seeds of thinking about pathways: those we walk, those others show us, the things we gather along the way, the way these wanderings reshape our own neural pathways. It was a crucial period, one that emboldened me to take new risks and think about my practice in new ways; what better way to pay tribute than by going big with this free, abstract bouquet, a synthesis of where I’ve been, as well as where I’m going.

Interested collectors: Please inquire for more details.

Collage-O-Rama
May 9-June 7
Hours: 10a-5p Fridays and Saturdays; 1-6p Sundays
@ Slip Gallery, 2301 1st Avenue, Seattle, WA

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