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Artist: Craig Howarth (Philadelphia, PA)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: Venmo @craighowarth or craigcoded@gmail.com. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Found papers, glue (yes paste & satin glazing liquid mixture) on Bristol board | Dimensions: 11 x 13 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
It seems we've been screaming about some injustice or another for as long as I can remember. In truth, this has been going on as long as humanity has organized itself into societies. Will it ever end? Is screaming enough? Will there ever be a truly fair and just society?
I don't know. But collage feels like an honest way to ask these questions.
Collages are fragments forced into relationship. Torn, layered, contradictory pieces that refuse to resolve into something clean. That's what resistance actually looks like: not a single coherent narrative, but protest signs and screaming mouths and watching eyes and weapons and rage, all occupying the same frame because they all occupy the same moment in history. I can't separate the woman's scream from the general’s fury from the hand on the gun. They're not different stories. They're the same story, told from different angles, at different volumes.
The eyes in this piece are the ones I keep coming back to. Everything else screams or threatens or marches. The eyes just watch. They are unwilling to look away, unable to forget. That's survival too. That's what collage does, it remembers everything at once, refusing the comfort of forgetting any single piece.
About the Artist
Craig Howarth is a Philadelphia-based collage artist exploring imagery, memory, and material. Working intuitively with found and repurposed materials such as vintage books, magazines, maps, and other ephemera, he creates layered, tactile compositions that examine how images shape personal and collective narratives. Guided by process rather than plan, Craig lets materials suggest meaning and form, cutting and assembling fragments into new visual relationships that bridge past and present and transform discarded remnants into objects of renewed significance.
https://craighowarth.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Craig Howarth (Philadelphia, PA)
Sold directly by the artist. Contact: Venmo @craighowarth or craigcoded@gmail.com. Please mention Pulp Stiction.
Year: 2026 | Medium: Found papers, glue (yes paste & satin glazing liquid mixture) on Bristol board | Dimensions: 11 x 13 inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
It seems we've been screaming about some injustice or another for as long as I can remember. In truth, this has been going on as long as humanity has organized itself into societies. Will it ever end? Is screaming enough? Will there ever be a truly fair and just society?
I don't know. But collage feels like an honest way to ask these questions.
Collages are fragments forced into relationship. Torn, layered, contradictory pieces that refuse to resolve into something clean. That's what resistance actually looks like: not a single coherent narrative, but protest signs and screaming mouths and watching eyes and weapons and rage, all occupying the same frame because they all occupy the same moment in history. I can't separate the woman's scream from the general’s fury from the hand on the gun. They're not different stories. They're the same story, told from different angles, at different volumes.
The eyes in this piece are the ones I keep coming back to. Everything else screams or threatens or marches. The eyes just watch. They are unwilling to look away, unable to forget. That's survival too. That's what collage does, it remembers everything at once, refusing the comfort of forgetting any single piece.
About the Artist
Craig Howarth is a Philadelphia-based collage artist exploring imagery, memory, and material. Working intuitively with found and repurposed materials such as vintage books, magazines, maps, and other ephemera, he creates layered, tactile compositions that examine how images shape personal and collective narratives. Guided by process rather than plan, Craig lets materials suggest meaning and form, cutting and assembling fragments into new visual relationships that bridge past and present and transform discarded remnants into objects of renewed significance.
https://craighowarth.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.