29.875″x39.875″; collage of various papers on paper board; 1967. signed; © Romare Bearden Foundation / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY; Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY
COLLAGE ON VIEW
Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman: Collage in Dialogue
at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery in New York, New York, USA
5 September-2 November 2024
“Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman: Collage in Dialogue” is an exhibition focused on the artistic exchange between two leading innovators of the medium. Though Bearden was a generation older than Grossman, the artists initiated their collage practices within a year of each other—Grossman in 1962 and Bearden in 1963—and shared crucial developments in their technique through a continuous dialogue. Brought together through the cultural milieu fostered by their dealer at the time, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, the two artists remained close friends until Bearden’s death, forging a vital rapport that shaped their practices and lives.
35.625″x47.625″; collage of various papers on Masonite; 1993. signed; © Nancy Grossman, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York
The works presented in “Romare Bearden & Nancy Grossman: Collage in Dialogue” reveal surprising alignments between the artists’ collage oeuvres despite divergent subject matter and stylistic approaches. Both artists repurposed excerpts from previous artworks into material for new collages and applied various pigments (ink, acrylic, watercolor) to elements of many works in order to energize the composition. Where Bearden’s collages explore memory and autobiography within larger cultural narratives, Grossman’s collages are deeply psychological explorations of the human condition expressed via an open-ended material experimentation.
(text adapted from materials provided by the gallery)
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