But recently he's been enjoying a renaissance, with three fine shows:
early collages at the Guggenheim (2013), early paintings at the Guild Hall (2014), and his «Open» series from the «60s and «70s at Andrea Rosen (May 2015).
Piri Halasz reviews the exhibition Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on view through January 5, 2014.
Not exact matches
I'd seen a couple of his
early collages and then a friend sent me the catalog of his
collage show
at Colby College.
In Minimalism, one can sense
at once the scraps in an
early collage and the sprawling installation art of young artists now.
Katz speaks of his
early education; his family's interest in art; his U.S. Navy service; his education
at the Cooper Union School and
at Skowhegan; styles and methods in painting; his work in
collage, portraiture and book illustration; theater set design; teaching
at Yale, Skowhegan and the Studio School; his interest in poetry; and his current painting style.
WHEN BEARDEN»S BLACK ODYSSEY
COLLAGES were exhibited
at DC Moore Gallery in 2007 - 08, the occasion marked the first comprehensive presentation of the works since they were created 30 years
earlier.
«Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages» will be presented
at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, May 26 - September 8, 2013, before traveling to its second and final venue, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, September 27, 2013 - January 5, 2014.
The acquisition of an
early Cubist
collage is a major coup for the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and made headlines when it was announced
at the tail end of the month.
This story is remembered in the show Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages,
at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection space in Venice, where Motherwell's works on paper from 1941 - 51 are on display.
This exhibition charts Höch's career beginning with
early works influenced by her time working in the fashion industry to key photomontages from her Dada period, such as Hochfinanz (High Finance)(1923), which sees notable figures
collaged together with emblems of industry in a critique of the relationship between financiers and the military
at the height of an economic crisis in Europe.
The Living
At this point in the proceedings, after we passed some more black and white graffiti - inspired pseudo-edgy versions of boring later Brice Mardens and flower patterns in the genre of Phillip Taaffe, we made the detour into Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages.
It also enters
at least two works from the 1940s, in «Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages.»
She participated in the Artist Project
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and
earlier this month, recognized for «
collaging the immigrant experience,» Akunyili Crosby was named among the 100 Leading Global Thinkers of 2015 by Foreign Policy Magazine.
As well as this,
early collages and photographs from the archive of Martin Wong
at the Fales Library were selected for the exhibition by the artists Danh Vo and Julie Ault are shown in vitrines and are displayed in the window of the gallery.
Meanwhile, in «10,000 Mantras,»
at Studio 10, Meg Hitchcock continues to use
collage as a meditative practice through the reformulation of cut letters taken from holy (and not - so - holy) books.9 Here, the flat shapes of
earlier work give way to increasingly complex stacks of letters.
Originally shown
at Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main
earlier this year, the SCAD Museum of Art's presentation will include several works not previously exhibited including neon work by Kendell Geers, a photo series by Youssef Nabil, large - scale works on paper by Christine Beatrice Dixie, a sound installation by Frances Goodman incorporating bridal fabrics cascading from the ceiling, a calligraphy garden by Moataz Nasr and a
collage by Wangechi Mutu.
Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; previously
at Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.
After graduating in 1960 and before her tragically
early death in 1966, her
collages and large bright canvases were exhibited in a number of group shows and in her own solo exhibition
at the Grabowski Gallery in London.
Showcasing Drexler's major paintings and
collages as well as her captivating
early sculptures, award winning plays and novels, and photographic and video documentation of the artist's wild and varied theatrical career, the exhibition is co-curated by Rose Curator -
at - Large Katy Siegel and Curatorial Assistant Caitlin Julia Rubin.
In addition to a range of works in a variety of media, 5 major
early works were on display for the first time in a European gallery, a series of
collages from 1968 - 69 when Robert Mapplethorpe was living with Patti Smith
at the Chelsea Hotel in New York City.
Among a selection of work that deals with the practice of image making — looking closely
at color, pattern, texture, and materials — photographer Matt Lipps combines personal history with the history of photography in his
collaged «Library of Photography» series; Sean Raspet fuses the optical with the tactile in wall - mounted lenticular lenses; and cyanotypes by Barbara Kasten, produced in 1974, offer some of the contemporary photographer's
earliest works.
The LACMA show dives into Mapplethorpe's drawings from his time as a student
at Pratt, his experimentations with sculpture and
collage, and it includes many of his
earliest Polaroids — a medium he started utilizing
at the suggestion of Patti Smith.
In 2004 she curated «Pin Up: Contemporary
Collage and Drawing»
at Tate Modern, having
earlier curated «Surfacing» an international survey of drawing
at London's ICA where she was Director of Exhibitions.
His
early drawings and
collages, heavily influenced by Dada and the expressionism of the Beat Generation, already hinted
at the artist's interest in the transformation of perception and knowledge in an electronic age and the relationship between art, technology, and the human condition.
In addition to her work on Rauschenberg, Davidson is senior curator for collections and exhibitions
at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where her most recent exhibitions and catalogues include Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages (2013); John Chamberlain: Choices (2012); Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation (2007); No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock's Paintings on Paper (2005); Peggy and Kiesler: The Collector and the Visionary (2004); and American Pop Icons (2003).
The artist's
early collages, produced
at a smaller size than most of her sculptures, provide important insight into her thinking and working process and the importance of wood in her work.
Wesselmann first explored the medium of
collage in 1959, during his final year as an art student
at The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, and it remained central to his practice throughout the
early 1960s.
His works were shown in a solo exhibit, Wesselmann — The
Early Years —
Collages 1959 - 1962
at California State University
at Long Beach, and in American Art Since 1945 from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art group exhibition
at the Worcester Art Museum.
In a way, as critic Charles Darwent has written, Ofili «seems to be reliving 20th - century modernism backwards,» cycling through clear formal periods wherein his compositions have become more stripped - down, foregoing the dense layering and
collaged elements of
earlier works, and often focusing on a limited color palette — including the red, green, and black of Marcus Garvey's pan-African flag in the series of paintings he began in 2000 and showed in concert in an immersive environment
at the 2003 Venice Biennale's British Pavilion.
However, Sacks, who spent studied fine art
at Princeton and Yale, orchestrates them into a poetic ambiance that recalls
early cutouts of the 20th century European
collage and the chaotic fervor of Abstract Expressionism of the «40s.
If he was not an
early postmodernist, one might
at least describe Steinberg as the progenitor of a certain strain of stylistic
collage in postmodern art.
Coming off her successful restaurant project for the Whitney Biennial, Cianciolo is in the spotlight again with a new solo exhibition
at Frieze with Bridget Donahue gallery, which will feature a range of her works since the
early 90s including drawings,
collages, and garment designs.
Vicente produced his
earliest collages during his residency in 1949
at the University of California, Berkeley.
This display is fleshed out by «A.R. Penck, Before the West,» a fascinatingly scrappy show of
early work
at the Leo Koenig gallery in Chelsea: paintings, sculpture and
collages from the»70s, when Mr. Penck was something of a dissident artist in East Berlin, smuggling paintings out and art materials (and Deutschmarks) in.
Opening: Lorraine O'Grady
at Alexander Gray Associates This exhibition focuses on two
early projects: the performance art piece Rivers, First Draft and her first
collage series Cutting Out The New York Times, showcasing «the artist's nuanced perspectives on art history — specifically Dada and Surrealism — and the topical issues of the late - 1970s and
early 1980s, when Multiculturalism and Feminism were articulated and tested in the art world,» according to a press release.
The Jazz Museum
at the Old Mint held a sampling of the sometimes naughty, little - known
collages that jazz great Louis Armstrong made in the final two decades of his life, as well as Satch Hoyt's tambourines linked into chains attached to mirrors to form endless columns, or halved and assembled into crosses reminiscent of the city's famous ironwork; and there were two installations by Dario Robleto, one featuring preserved, mounted butterflies with antennae made of audio tape delicately perched on the edges of the fossilized inner - ear bones of whales, and the other a collaboration with the record label Dust - to - Digital to preserve
early gospel music.
His
early collages appeared in the groundbreaking Surréalisme show
at the Julien Levy Gallery in Manhattan in 1932, alongside Dalí and Duchamp, and his first shadow box, Untitled (Soap Bubble Set), was in Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism, a major exhibition
at the Museum of Modern Art in 1936.
At Mr. Marks's newly renovated 24th Street gallery, four works from 2011 employ some abrupt curved shapes from the
early collages and a green and orange painting from 1964.
Features VanDerBeek's
early paintings and
collages, experimental films, recreations of immersive projection and film environments, and documentation of site - specific and telecommunications projects - including a «telephone mural» meant to allow for the simultaneous exhibition of artworks
at multiple sites.
at Martin Gropius Bau presents a broad spectrum of Genzken's extraordinary and exceptionally diverse oeuvre, from her
early films, drawings, and concrete sculptures to complex
collages and everyday items integrated into montages.
Early Morning Garden (1957), an explosive oil paint and
collage piece that will be on view
at the DAM, substitutes natural forms for purely abstract ones.
The exhibition features paintings by Martin Wong from 1980 to 1998, as well as
early collages and photographs from the archive of Martin Wong
at the Fales Library, that were selected for the exhibition by the artists Danh Vo and Julie Ault.
As in Newsome's
earlier works, these
collages are shown in ornate Dutch - style frames specifically inspired by the collection of Dutch masterworks housed
at the Metropolitan Museum, referencing moments in Renaissance art and architecture history.
One, «Alex Katz:
Collages»
at Colby College in Waterville — whose impressive art gallery has a large permanent Katz wing — is said to be the first comprehensive survey of this group of intimate - scale paste - ups, done very
early in his career.
Wallace BERMAN worked with photographic manipulation,
collage, and assemblage
at a critical time in their respective evolutions in the beat - era of the
early 1960s.
Van den Dorpel's first solo exhibition in the United States, Release
early, release often... introduces the artist's spherical Perspex sculptures, web - based work, and
collages, the latter appearing
at once high - Modernist yet akin to melancholic, mass - produced hotel lobby art.
It is the largest show ever mounted by the Gallery, providing a comprehensive look
at how the «
collage» emerged as a mode of artmaking in the
early twentieth century and has evolved through the rapid uptake of technology and digital media to facilitate new modes of production in all fields of visual culture today,» said Kathleen S. Bartels, Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery.
The exhibition
at Matthew Marks Gallery includes four works by Roth: two
early works in chocolate, dating from 1969, and two found object
collages on board from the
early 1990s.
Early Twentieth Century:
Collage, Montage and Readymade at the Birth of Modern Culture The incorporation of found images and materials into artwork can be traced to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who invented collage and rudimentary assemblage practices during a period of intense experimentation between 1912 an
Collage, Montage and Readymade
at the Birth of Modern Culture The incorporation of found images and materials into artwork can be traced to Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, who invented
collage and rudimentary assemblage practices during a period of intense experimentation between 1912 an
collage and rudimentary assemblage practices during a period of intense experimentation between 1912 and 1914.
Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Kathleen S. Bartels, says the exhibition provides, «a comprehensive look
at how the «
collage» emerged as a mode of artmaking in the
early 20th century and has evolved through the rapid uptake of technology and digital media to facilitate new modes of production in all fields of visual culture today.»