COLLAGE ON VIEW
Nature vs. Everything
at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts in Michigan City, Indiana, USA
1 February-1 June 2019
man vs. nature
man vs. man
nature vs. everything else
Closely investigating the building, blooming, and burning of the natural and man-made world, “Nature vs. Everything” brings eight contemporary perspectives to Lubeznik Center for the Arts to comment on humanity’s relationship with nature, illuminating a natural world that is often ignored. Dan Attoe, Amy Casey, Juan Angel Chavez, Diane Christiansen, Michael Pajon, Liliana Porter, Allison Ruttan, and Tom Torluemke build a show that makes strong statements on the environmental peril of the world through subject, scale, and medium.
Presenting collage is New Orleans-based artist Michael Pajon. Pajon attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a focus on printmaking. Eventually gravitating to the graphic nature of the medium that closely resembles the comics he loved, he worked closely with renowned artist Tony Fitzpatrick as an assistant/studio manager. During this time, he started making assemblages of the bits and pieces he had accumulated from alleys, junkshops, and thrift stores, slicing up old children’s book covers and rearranging their innards into disjointed tales of Americana.
(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Lubeznik Center for the Arts
Hyndman, Brinka Cross, and Susan Bloch Galleries
101 West 2nd Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360 USA
(219) 874-4900
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Monday-Friday, 10AM-5PM
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Images: left to right
Bird Brain
by Michael Pajon
40″x30″
3D collage, handcut archival, inkjet on MDF
2018
Edition of 4
installation view
Moth Eaten
by Michael Pajon
40″x30″
3D collage, handcut archival, inkjet on MDF
2018
Edition of 4
installation view