Searching for a visual language to capture the immediacy of everyday life and the quotidian nature of his subject matter, Andrews developed his «rough collage» technique,
combining scraps of paper and cloth with oil paint on canvas.
Not exact matches
This led us to pioneer a formula for making our own recycled
paper, which
combines tiny
scraps of fabric,
paper left from our office and pattern making, and natural glue.
Standout artists in the show include Tomashi Jackson, who uses Josef Albers's 1963 text Interaction
of Color to explore the history
of racial segregation in her painterly assemblages; David Shrobe, who creates surreal portraits by
combining his figurative paintings and drawings with found materials; and Kennedy Yanko, who makes abstract sculptures by blending rubbery skins
of poured paint and crumpled
paper with bits
of marble and
scrap metal.
Incorporating found
paper, recycling
scraps of older works, and singeing
paper to express volcanic heat, Grossman
combined collage elements with ink, watercolor, and graphite.
In New York, Andrews lived on Suffolk Street, befriended other Lower East Side figurative expressionists that included Red Grooms, Bob Thompson, Lester Johnson and Nam June Paik, and continued to develop his «rough collage» technique that often
combined rugged
scraps of paper and cloth with paint on canvas.
After the photographs are printed, translated to
paper or board and made physical, they are
combined with other photographs, drawings and
scraps of paper within a single frame.
Random
scraps of paper are translated into giant sheets
of cut steel; tiny handcrafted maquettes are documented in larger - than - life photographs; and found images are manipulated by analog lighting effects, photographed, and then
combined into video.
While the majority
of Grossman's works concern the physicality
of the body, many
of her collages and assemblages are dense, abstract compositions, such as Tough Life Diary (1973), created from words and fragments cut from the artist's diaries, and Light is Faster than Sound (1987 — 88), which
combines dyed
paper with an image
of Lyndon Johnson and found
scraps and fliers.