Paige Ledom is an artist based in Kansas City. Once a painter, she traded in her paint brush for scissors to create intricately arranged collages using everyday materials, like paint swatches, cardboard, aluminum foil, painted paper, cut up photographs, product packaging and whatever else she finds interesting to envision new possibilities for these materials we interact with on a daily basis. Many initially mistake her work for a painting when walking by, but upon closer inspection are in for a surprise when they begin to recognize some of the materials used to create the art.

She believes that making art is a continuously shifting practice and a place marker for the artist’s life when the work was made, holding time through object. Scraps from her life, that may otherwise be discarded, find their way into the work and become the anatomy of the image, exploring personal narrative not only through subject matter, but physical media too. Memories and scraps are similar in that we ultimately decide what is important with what we choose to hang onto and throw out.

She focuses on subjects and scenes from everyday life, depicting each one in great detail feels like a meditation on each one. Slowly building up the surface, reflecting on what brings us joy and what we are inexplicably drawn to. 

Paige is currently represented by Liz Lidgett Gallery in Des Moines, Iowa.