Cut and Paste: Contemporary Collage
25 February-19 March 2017
Collage was born of an upended reality. Kurt Schwitters, the Dadaists, Josef Albers and many others tried to undermine the rationalism and inhumanity they believed caused World War I and the following social breakdown. By taking existing things and making them new and strange, “Cut and Paste: Contemporary Collage” affords a multitude of new ways of looking at concept, subject matter, and material. Drawing on a wide range of artists, the exhibition presents figurative alongside abstract works and multimedia experiments next to black-and-white cutouts. This show is a collective reaction to the increasingly fragmentary nature of our world, from the ubiquity of the Internet to the seemingly fractured nature of reality itself. The artwork was selected by the highly respected Metropolitan Museum of Art Specialist, Jared Ash.
Artists on view:
Beatriz Pinheiro, Troy Campbell, Meikel Church, Anne Bascove, Miriam Ancis, Jingmei Han, Elizabeth Emery, David Sheskin, Alisha Shiflet, Yuna Ikegami, Mariah Doren, Ryan Burns, Tamara Kostianovsky, Brenda Giegerich, Jose Baez, James Prez, Trudy Borenstein-Sugiura, Jessica Alazraki, Wendy Kawabata, Deborah Salomon, Brian Bober, Jessica Wohl, Steven Palumbo, Liz Innvar, Marlene Weisman, Jacqueline Dee Parker, Laurie Kanyer, Chris Pelletiere, Galen Cheney, Cindy Maguire, Ai Krasner, John Hundt, Axelle Kieffer, John Paradiso, Kathleen Caprario, Marissa Raglin, Ryota Matsumoto, Nancy Lasar, Emily Lazarre, Dara Cerv, Cory Peeke, Gail Flanery, Conny Goelz-Schmitt, Sean Fleckenstein, Dahlia Elsayed, Danielle Garza, Lynsey Nelson, Phyllis Gorsen, John Lawler, Michelle Saffran, Jonathan Lee, Leslie Adler, Cheryl Dawdy, Emma Hadzi Antich, Donny Gettinger, Niki Haynes, and Alexis Hilliard.
(adapted from the exhibition statement written by Julian Cosma)
INFORMATION
Site:Brooklyn
165 7th Street
Brooklyn, New York 11215 USA
(718) 625-3646
Hours:
Thursday-Sunday, 1-6PM
Image: top
Fig. 185
by Deborah Salomon
14″x19″
mixed media collage
Image: centre
flow of information
by Cory Peeke
9″x6″
collage