20 September-16 October 2014
“Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950 – Present”
“Allegorical Procedures” surveys collage practices in the Bay Area, including related practices of décollage, assemblage, photomontage and détournement. Collage is conceived broadly as an “allegorical” technique of signification that relies on methods of “confiscation, superimposition and fragmentation,” as Benjamin Buchloh observed in his 1980 theorization of collage and montage.
The exhibition looks back to such well-known precedents as Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner and the Bay Area Dadaist/Mail art scene of the 1970s, as well as other contemporary artists employing and/or expanding the practice of collage.
Artists: Anna Banana/VILE Magazine, Terry Berlier, Wallace Berman/Semina, Matt Borruso, Val Britton, Marie Johnson Calloway, castaneda/reiman, Bruce Conner, John De Fazio, Jay DeFeo, Emory Douglas, Lynn Hershman, David Ireland, Jess, Jasmin Lim, Matt Lipps, Fred Martin, Brion Nuda Rosch, Leslie Shows, and Winston Smith.
Curated by Gwen Allen.
(text adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Fine Arts Gallery
Fine Arts Building
San Francisco State University
1600 Holloway Avenue (at 19th Avenue)
San Francisco, California 94132 USA
(415) 338-6535
Hours:
Wednesday-Saturday, 11AM-4PM
Image:
Hallowe’en
by Winston Smith
12″x12″
photomontage
1982
Courtesy of the artist