23 May-24 August 2014
“From Ordinary to Extraordinary: Paper as Art”
Paper, when manipulated, sculpted or cut into two and three dimensional art, can surprise the viewer with its flexibility, intricacy and beauty. This exhibition, curated by Melanie Johnson, includes 75 works of art by 16 artists, whose works have been previously exhibited throughout the world: Bruce Helander (Florida), Michelle “Mizou” Chassaing (Florida), Sy Grant (Florida), David Orr Wright (Florida), Hina Aoyama (Japan), Beth Appleton (Florida), Cara Barer (Texas), Charles Clary (Tennessee), Jupi Das (Pennsylvania), Brian Dettmer (Georgia), Amy Genser (Connecticut), Frank Hyder, Will Kurtz (New York), Bovey Lee (Pennsylvania), Hiromi Moneyhun (Japan/Florida), Jeremy Pantoja (Texas), Alex Queral (Florida), Dan Rizzie, Matthew Rose (France), Annie Vought (California).
Of particular interest to Kolaj readers are the collage artists Bruce Helander, Michelle “Mizou” Chassaing, and Matthew Rose.
Bruce Helander, based in Palm Beach, Florida, specializes in collage and assemblage. His work is the collections of over 50 museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His work has been discussed in ARTNews, The New Criterion, the Miami Herald, Art & Antiques, Vanity Fair, the Boston Globe, and Art in America.
Originally from France, Michelle “Mizou” Chassaing came to the United States in 1966. She studied life drawing and painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and, in 1985, her painting evolved into collage. She returned to France in 1987 to study at the Matisse Institute. This sojourn and subsequent wide-ranging European travels inspire her.
Matthew Rose lives and works in Paris. Known widely for his collage works and wall-to-wall, ceiling-to-floor installations, he graduated from Brown University in 1981 with a degree in Semiotics/Linguistics. Influenced by Americans Ray Johnson, Jasper Johns, Joseph Cornell and a handful of French surrealists, Rose works late hours ripping apart paper and bits of text to remake contemporary life into a specific, yet unbound book, what the artist calls his “theory of everything”.
(adapted from the museum’s press materials)
INFORMATION
Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture
51 North Swinton Avenue
Delray Beach, Florida 33444 USA
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Image:
A Woman of Note
by Bruce Helander
16.5″x24.75
paper collage on museum board
2012
Collection of Benjamin Macfarland, West Palm Beach, Florida
Courtesy of Helander Studio, West Palm Beach