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.
Not exact matches
These primarily earth - coloured paintings from the late 1950s and
early 1960s were often textured with sand, hessian, metal and wood, and included
collages in shallow boxes
as they became increasingly sculptural.
In his blog you find him reflecting on new pieces,
as they emerge, while discussing his inspirations: late work by Frank Stella and
early collages by Russian Constructivist Olga Rozanova.
One of the
early contributors to the Arte Povera movement living in Genoa in the 1960s, Prini became involved in shows such
as «Arte povera — Im spazio» and «
Collage 1» curated by Germano Celant, art critic credited with grouping the artists together.
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.
It's not
as apparent in a lot of the
early work, but I already had kind of a
collage sensibility.
An
early experiment in the use of chance procedures
as a means to suspend artistic agency, Jean Arp's 1916
Collage géométrique is one in a series of
collages drawn from the random composition of tossed pieces of paper.
Nevertheless Robert Motherwell;
Early Collages, which runs through January 5, is well worth seeing and these works, placed today in a small gallery on the Lower East Side, in the guise of having just come out of the studio of some young artist, would appear completely viable and credible
as contemporary works because there are so many artists today, here in New York showing on the LES and Bushwick
as well
as elsewhere in the United States and Canada and perhaps globally, still working in the orbit of the aesthetic consensus of post-War formalism.
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 galler
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 galler
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.
Cornell's rare,
early collages and «sand tray» box bring together imagery and found objects from historical source material — sand in this case
as a metaphor for a universal symbol marking the passage of time.
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.
The modest and democratic tenants of his
early practice continue in his material choices,
as well
as the theory of
collage as a basic gesture of insolence, a social strategy for discord and for metaphysical beauty.
Harkening back to his
early days
as a multi-purpose experimenter, Schneider presents several large - scale prints on canvas,
collages, and an enormous multi-panel abstraction printed on self - adhesive fabric.
In addition, large - scale wall bound works on mirror
as well
as enlarged sketches and
collage bare traces of
early 20th century Expressionism.
The Turner Prize - winning artist Chris Ofili became an international celebrity
early as a result of the «Sensation» exhibition, then morphed his style away from the
collaged and encrusted canvases that brought him renown to create sensuous paintings of Afrocentric fantasias — works that are irresistible to collectors but occupying a lower public profile.
Explore the history of Pop Art from its
early roots in 1940s
collage by British artists to US pioneers such
as Jasper Johns through to the masters of Pop, Warhol and Lichtenstein.
Early on, she worked in
collage as well as paint: The Image As Burden includes several examples, perhaps the most significant of which is Love Versus Death (1980), in which two «clue - strips» consisting of various photographs and newspaper clippings (Steve Biko is among them, and so, too, is Peggy Guggenheim) suggest ways of reading the work's central panel of drawing
as well
as paint: The Image As Burden includes several examples, perhaps the most significant of which is Love Versus Death (1980), in which two «clue - strips» consisting of various photographs and newspaper clippings (Steve Biko is among them, and so, too, is Peggy Guggenheim) suggest ways of reading the work's central panel of drawing
as paint: The Image
As Burden includes several examples, perhaps the most significant of which is Love Versus Death (1980), in which two «clue - strips» consisting of various photographs and newspaper clippings (Steve Biko is among them, and so, too, is Peggy Guggenheim) suggest ways of reading the work's central panel of drawing
As Burden includes several examples, perhaps the most significant of which is Love Versus Death (1980), in which two «clue - strips» consisting of various photographs and newspaper clippings (Steve Biko is among them, and so, too, is Peggy Guggenheim) suggest ways of reading the work's central panel of drawings.
The rare, sculptural
collages, which are eulogies and odes to punk stars such
as Ricky Williams, Frankie Fix, Johnny Strike, and De Detroit, bare a striking resemblance to Conner's assemblage pieces from the
early 1960s.
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.
These
early collages in which Kruger used the techniques she had perfected
as a graphic designer, were the artist's initiation into the world of ongoing political, social, and feminist provocations and commentaries on religion, sex, racial stereotypes, consumerism, corporate greed, and power.
This series can be seen
as an extension of some of her work in another medium, her
earlier Dream and Dream - Mirror
collage paintings.
Ofili came to prominence in the
early 1990s with richly orchestrated paintings combining rippling dots of paint, drifts of glitter,
collaged images and elephant dung — varnished, often studded with map pins and applied to the picture surface
as well
as supporting the canvas — a combination of physical elevation and symbolic link to the earth.
Our modern notion of
collaging, or papier - collé (French for glued or stuck paper), was ignited in the
early twentieth century by artists such
as Pablo Picasso (1881 — 1973) and Georges Braque (1882 — 1963), who incorporated various text, photographs, found objects, and paper into works of art, resulting in an entirely new medium.
Robert Motherwell:
Early Collages, published to accompany an exhibition devoted exclusively to Motherwell's works on paper from the 1940s and early 1950s, reexamines the origins of the artist's style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as «the greatest of our discoveries.&r
Early Collages, published to accompany an exhibition devoted exclusively to Motherwell's works on paper from the 1940s and
early 1950s, reexamines the origins of the artist's style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944 as «the greatest of our discoveries.&r
early 1950s, reexamines the origins of the artist's style and his revelatory encounter with the papier collé technique that he described in 1944
as «the greatest of our discoveries.»
Early collages are formal and reflect the influence of cubism, while
collages of the 1950s are more liberated
as the constraints of European modernism diminish and the influence of abstract expressionism appears.
Four writers examine Motherwell's fervent advocacy of
collage as «the greatest of our discoveries», with illustrations of some 60 of the artist's works from the 1940s and
early»50s.
This year, they have a Robert Motherwell show of
collages on view, which sounds a little like the Rauschenberg
collage show they had on view in 2009, but only because they both have the same name (I somehow read the exhibition listing wrong
earlier and listed this
as Rauschenberg).
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.
Yet the
collage - like process by which he builds his work is also reminiscent of the
early»60s pre-psychedelic creations of artist / writers such
as Akbar del Piombo.
The immersive two channel video projection pays homage to cinema
as the aesthetic medium of the 20th Century with its rich historical
collage of excerpted science fiction films dating back to the
early 1950s.
Her
earliest collages make use of text, and she often writes poetical monikers or captions directly onto her drawings, such
as «The Eyes of the Night Creatures» or «Miss Interpreted.»
This
early experimentation with the medium sparked years of fruitful
collage - making that served
as a prequel of sorts to Motherwell's later Abstract Expressionist paintings.
First made in the
early - 1960s, Kusama's soft sculptures adorned with phallic - like protuberances anticipate the work of Claes Oldenburg, while her use of wallpaper and
collages incorporating elements such
as airmail stickers would have a profound influence on Andy Warhol.
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.
As the early 1980s were passing along, David began to produce photo collages — or joiners as he preferred to call them — which will eventually prove to be an important milestone of his caree
As the
early 1980s were passing along, David began to produce photo
collages — or joiners
as he preferred to call them — which will eventually prove to be an important milestone of his caree
as he preferred to call them — which will eventually prove to be an important milestone of his career.
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.
Early tactile
collages in unconventional materials such
as pumice, black tar and burlap, including Nero Catrame (1951), Sacco e Rosso (1956) and Sacco Bianco e Nero (1956) transform the traditional definition of painting by employing a new language and giving life to hitherto unheard - of expressive results.
Focusing on works from the mid-1990s to the present this retrospective will reflect Sonia Boyce's move from her
earlier drawing and
collage that explored her own position
as a black British woman, towards more improvised, collaborative ways of working.
Focusing on work from the mid-1990s to the present the exhibition will reflect Boyce's move from her
earlier drawing and
collage which explored her own position
as a black British woman, towards more improvised, collaborative ways of working.
Bringing together some 80 paintings,
collages, and objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and
early commercial work, the exhibition offers fresh insight into Magritte's identity
as a modern painter and Surrealist artist.
The show displays a selection of pieces displayed salon style
as both a reference to
early modernist salons but also to the clutter and natural chaos of her own workspace.The show includes photographs,
collages, drawings, and large - scale Polaroids, displaying for us a more personal, introspective viewpoint that we haven't seen yet from the artist.
Momentarily abandoning the stupefying rhetoric of immediacy that characterized his
earlier photographic appropriations, he is now reinscribing his work in the well - lit field of modern paradigms: by referencing the monochrome
as he did in his previous «joke» paintings, by reintroducing
collage and silk - screen superimpositions, and above all by coating some of his appropriations with a thin layer of white paint that is simultaneously on top of and underneath the imagery.
«The exhibition will showcase the
early collages that combine abstract painting, text, and image; and a selection of many of the artist's best - known blackboard paintings, in which a faux blackboard surface is used
as the ground for realistic, painted vignettes adjacent to fragments of different stories that suggest variously ambiguous meanings.
As I thought about what size and type of works would complement the clusters of collages, it occurred to me that I wanted to include large - format Polaroid's, framed in such a manner as to recall the earliest daguerreotypes that were a direct influence to artists such as Courbe
As I thought about what size and type of works would complement the clusters of
collages, it occurred to me that I wanted to include large - format Polaroid's, framed in such a manner
as to recall the earliest daguerreotypes that were a direct influence to artists such as Courbe
as to recall the
earliest daguerreotypes that were a direct influence to artists such
as Courbe
as Courbet.
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.
Included alongside works such
as the iconic lamb in formaldehyde, «Away from the Flock» (1994) and an
early spot painting, are a series of
early collages, produced by Hirst in the mid-80s.
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.
Kelly's sculpture relates to two important
early works: Study for Black and White Panels, 1954, a
collage created during the artist's time in Paris, and Black Over White, a 1966 painting made in New York City, both of which will be on view in the gallery
as part of the opening exhibition.
The exhibition brings together more than two decades of Stark's poetic compositions and autobiographical reflections, featuring 125 works, including the artist's
early carbon drawings, intricate
collages, and mixed - media paintings
as well
as her more recent videos.
For Jones, the act of listening,
as well
as the modes thereof, become in and of themselves part of her practice, which has evolved from literal references to music in
early drawings and
collages to more nuanced and multifaceted installations that engage the viewer visually and aurally.