In addition to her growing archive of 8 mm and 16 mm found footage, the artist draws from official documents, newspaper clippings and personalized accounts of history, to project a multiplicity of voices through
combined fragments of text, image and music.
Bourgeois is equally admired for her intimate drawings, often
combining fragments of text, and her highly personal writings, which often address her long and complex life story.
The drawings, which
combine fragments of text with images culled from American popular and underground culture, dominated the exhibition, due in part to the sheer number of them and in part to the appeal of familiar images drawn in a simple graphic style.
Not exact matches
Combining found footage with items found on eBay, a pastel - hued studio set - up and
fragments of text, the artist explores how objects
of desire can lose or gain attraction over time.
The vibrant exhibition hinges upon Pettibon's mastery
of combining fragmented text and imagery.
Powerfully striking images, portraits
of obsolete architecture and natural landscapes, and visions
of remote deserts turn up throughout her works,
combined with
fragments of text and scenarios where past and present intertwine.
«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.
Some
of the works included in the exhibition explicitly engage with Eliot and his writing, such as Philip Guston's grim deathbed painting East Coker: T.S.E. (1979); David Jones's painted inscription Nam Sibyllam (1958), made as a gift for Eliot, which
combines the
text from Petronius that is The Waste Land's epigraph with the opening lines
of the poem and other phrases connected to the Grail myth; Graham Sutherland's two Illustrations for T. S. Eliot (1973); and Vibeke Tandberg's The Waste Land (2007), which consists
of 36 collages in which the artist has cut out each
of the words
of the poem, and re-organised them alphabetically and in groups, at once
fragmenting Eliot's poem
of «broken images» even further and bringing its underlying verbal structure to light.
The exhibition will showcase the early collages that
combine abstract painting,
text, and image, as well as a selection
of many
of his 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.
In this series the artist
combined her love
of decoration — in this instance, Islamic ornament — with her longstanding passion for cartography, so that interspersed throughout the works are maps
of the Gaza strip, the Pale
of Settlement (the territory within Imperial Russia restricted for Jews from 1835 - 1917, to which Kozloff traces her ancestry), as well as
text references to the Tasman Sea, among other word
fragments.
Combining pop culture subject matter with abstraction, his
fragmented comic - inspired imagery paired with
text is reminiscent
of the 1960s Pop Art movement.
Davis is known primarily for the stripe works that span twenty - seven years, but he was a versatile artist who worked in a variety
of formats and media: modular compositions consisting
of discrete, but related, pieces that together form one composition; collages
combining cutout
fragments of images and
text with painted and drawn elements; Klee - inspired images that resemble musical scores; and silhouette self - portraits.