Announcements and reviews of exhibitions that feature collage.
9 June-1 September 2013
“An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan, and Their Circle” is the first exhibition to focus on the artistic production and relationship between the artist Jess, his partner Robert Duncan, and their remarkable circle of friends.
18 July-11 August 2013
Kathryn Parker Almanas’ “Pre-Exisiting Condition” investigates destruction and healing within the body and the terrors and pleasures of embodiment.
20 May-18 July 2013
Artist Len Davis uses an array of found materials, along with his background in graphic design, to create stunning works of contemporary collage.
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30 June-13 October 2013
REMIX weaves the narrative of collage through the history of modern and contemporary art. The exhibition features 100 artists, whose work utilizes “collage’s core conceptual traits” (heterogeneity, fragmentation, and appropriation) to address the circumstances of their times.
22 May-28 June 2013
Elektra KB presents new works on paper, photography, and a selection of cloth pages of her 20 page, hand-sewn artist’s book. The pages of the book, each a sewn and embroidered felt collage, depict guerilla warfare in a mythological, semi-autobiographical world parallel to ours: a female rebel army revolting against the forces of a tyrannical police state.
6-19 June 2013
Étienne Gélinas calls his work painting, but the work on view has clear collage elements, including sewing patterns, photos of gearing systems, architectural plans, anatomy drawings, and a form of technical drawing involving engraving in paste.
6 June-19 July 2013
Pavel Zoubok Gallery presents a three-part exhibition celebrating the work of pioneering gay artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt (b. 1948)
5 June-27 July 2013
Bernard Jacobson Gallery presents a comprehensive survey of collage work by American artist Robert Motherwell. This exhibition runs concurrently with “Robert Motherwell: The Early Collages” from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, which is at the Venice Biennale.
24 May-16 June 2013
“Recovered Poetry: Three Masters of Construction and Collage” presents the work of Varujan Boghosian, Edward Giobbi, and Elspeth Halvorsen, who, in their over-80 years of artmaking, have created international reputations for their unusual and transcendent art.
