{"id":1765,"date":"2011-09-17T21:17:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2013-05-06T21:38:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T01:38:14","slug":"paul-bright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/contributors\/paul-bright\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bright began making collages in the late 1980s. More recently, his paper-based works have been joined by sound collages in an expansion of his approach. In both cases they are abstract works\u00a0spontaneously structured of discrete parts &#8211; from fragments of the familiar &#8211; which frustrate the common desire for spatial and narrative completeness. Prizing the dialogue he establishes with \u201cthe found\u201d, the sounds, text, and bits of image retain echoes of their previous lives, but are transformed in the new contexts the artist constructs for them.<\/p>\n<p>Bright was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from the University of South Carolina. He is the Director of the Charlotte &amp; Philip Hanes Gallery at Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina).<\/p>\n<p>His work has been shown in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, Canada, and in the U.S.. His works reside in numerous private collections, as well as museums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/category\/paul-bright\">READ ARTICLES BY PAUL BRIGHT<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Bright has been making collage since the late 1980s. Originally from Ohio, he was educated at the University of South Carolina. He is currently the director of Wake Forest University&#8217;s Charlotte &#038; Philip Hanes Gallery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/contributors\/paul-bright\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,26],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2QTD7-st","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1347,"url":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/exhibition-review-romare-bearden-a-black-odyssey\/","url_meta":{"origin":1765,"position":0},"title":"Exhibition Review: Romare Bearden &#8220;A Black Odyssey&#8221;","author":"Christopher Byrne","date":"13 February 2013","format":"gallery","excerpt":"by Paul Bright \"Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey\"\u00a0at Reynolda House Museum of Art\u00a0in Winston-Salem, North Carolina This currently travelling exhibition is centered on fifteen of the twenty collages that American artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) created and showed as a group in 1977, in response to Homer\u2019s Odyssey. 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