One of the few places in town where you can see unconventional collage work is at Creole Gallery in Old Town. Artist Katherine Fishburn . . . presents her first show titled "In Conversation: Fragments of Myself." Her large body of work, consisting of both 3-D collage works and 2-D multimedia drawings, exhibits her eclectic use of classical art and pop culture imagery. . .

Surrounding most of the walls in the gallery are Fishburn’s 2-D collage drawings. Primarily done in ink and colored pencil, with a little miscellaneous magazine and media imagery mixed in, she juxtaposes different design elements. Her most successful pieces are the Envelope Series. She uses Japanese wrapping paper as a boarder for the drawings. In these works the texture and pattern of the paper has a beautiful presence that carries the visuals, such as a drawn Dole Pineapple label or rendering of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ "Grande Odalisque" . . . .

Lively and very approachable are two words that come to mind after meeting the artist. When she agreed to meet me at a local coffee shop I had forgotten to tell her what she should look for to find me, or vice versa. Exactly on the hour she walked in. The giggling, pleasant woman pulled out a Barbie as her calling card.