{"id":8105,"date":"2019-07-14T23:13:04","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T03:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/?p=8105"},"modified":"2023-07-27T17:31:49","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T21:31:49","slug":"unfoldingobject","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kolajmagazine.com\/content\/content\/collage-exhibitions\/unfoldingobject\/","title":{"rendered":"Unfoldingobject"},"content":{"rendered":"

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COLLAGE ON VIEW<\/p>\n

Unfoldingobject<\/h2>\n

at Concord Art in Concord, Massachusetts, USA
\n20 June-11 August 2019<\/h3>\n

“Unfoldingobject” is the next exhibition an ongoing series to invite outside curators to organize themed exhibitions at Concord Art. Curated by artist and teacher Todd Bartel, “Unfoldingobject” showcases varying ways in which artists combine visual imagery to make collages. Bartel is the founder and gallery director of the Thompson Gallery, located at The Cambridge School of Weston, where he organizes three themed exhibitions each school year. The term \u201cunfoldingobject\u201d is a neologism coined by the Bartel, \u201cto describe that quality in art that inspires repeat looking.\u201d Bartel further describes, \u201cI tried to pull together a group of collages that celebrate the importance of \u2018listening to the picture,\u2019 or champions a slow read, or otherwise reveal\u2019s meaning through multiple viewings–artwork that unfolds messages and connections in time, rather than being immediately deliverable in an instant.\u201d<\/p>\n

This exhibit was featured in a News & Notes item in <\/em>Kolaj #26. To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The exhibition brings together a wide range of styles and approaches to collage making by 50 artists including: Nancy Baker, Sara Baker Michalak<\/a>, Todd Bartel<\/a>, Allan Bealy<\/a>, Wayne Bertola, Varujan Boghosian, Andrea Burgay<\/a>, Laura Christensen, Alfred DeCredico, Diane DelliCarpini, Adrienne Der Marderosian, Ben DiNino<\/a>, Rich Fedorchak, Anna Fine Foer, Paul Forte, Antonio Fr\u00e4ppa, Luciana Frigerio, Ginnie Gardiner<\/a>, Deb Goldstein, Kathy Greenwood, Rachel Hibbard, Angela V. Holland, Marnie Jain, Bo Joseph, Clive Knights, Erika Lawlor Schmidt, Kerith Lisi<\/a>, D. Dominick Lombardi<\/a>, Keith Maddy, China Marks, Jack Massey, Maureen McCabe, Talin Megherian, Charlie Nevad, Michael Oatman, Sherry Parker<\/a>, Cory Peeke<\/a>, W. David Powell, Gerri Rachins, Kenneth Ragsdale, Marcus Ratliff, Susan Reedy<\/a>, Stephanie Roberts-Camello, James Andrew Scott, Wendy Seller, Jill Stoll, Joshua Stringer, Nate Stromberg<\/a>, Peter Thomashow, Michael Waraksa.<\/p>\n

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Bartel points out, “collage is a celebration of unrelated and retrofitted images and materials that together produce a transformation; I\u2019m fond of telling my students 1 + 1 = 3\u2014One thing plus another thing equals a third thing.”<\/p>\n

Collage came into the vanguard of modern art in 1912 when Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque began adding paper elements they did not make themselves to their paintings and drawings. The practice has become ubiquitous today. As a fine art practice, collage is little more than a hundred years old and yet, collage appears in every possible art genre. “The revolution of papier coll\u00e9<\/em> changed forever how not just paintings can be made, but how art in general can be made. Moreover, today, collage has evolved to the point where paper or glue are no longer required, as in the example of digital collage,” Bartel stated.<\/p>\n

This is the first time in the history of the gallery that Concord Center for the Visual Arts is mounting an exhibition dedicated exclusively to the art of collage. The curator points out that collage \u201cmay look easy to do, but that,” he says, “is a deceiving aspect of collage. You have to first \u2018find\u2019 materials, then ‘mind\u2019 how you use them, before you \u2018bind\u2019 them in place. A point of the exhibition is to provide opportunities to marvel at the use, alteration and transformation of found and appropriated images and ephemera.\u201d Visitors to the show will find that there are also examples of collage which include the fabrication of materials created for specific purposes\u2014and there is even a site-specific installation in the sky light by one of the artists. \u201cCollage-based art encourages looking, wonder and invention for artists and viewers alike. And especially in today\u2019s age of smartphones and tablets, which literally puts the world and its history in our hands, art like these collages reminds us of the importance of the hand-made object and the value of slowing down to take a second and third look,\u201d Bartel said.<\/p>\n

This exhibit was featured in a News & Notes item in <\/em>Kolaj #26. To see the entire issue, SUBSCRIBE<\/a> to <\/em>Kolaj Magazine or Get a Copy of the Issue<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

(adapted from the gallery’s press materials)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION<\/h3>\n

Concord Center for the Visual Arts<\/strong>
\n37 Lexington Road
\nConcord, Massachusetts 01742 USA
\n(978) 369-2578<\/p>\n

Hours:<\/strong>
\nTuesday-Saturday, 10AM-4:30PM
\nSunday, Noon-4PM<\/p>\n

MAP<\/a> | WEBSITE<\/a>\u00a0| FACEBOOK<\/a><\/p>\n

Images (top to bottom):<\/strong>
\nuntitled
\nby Alfred DeCredico
\n5.625″x8.25″
\ncollage
\n1983
\nCourtesy of the artist and Concord Center for Visual Arts<\/p>\n

Germinal Velocity (By the Time I Get to Phoenix, She’ll be Rising)<\/em>
\nby Michael Oatman
\n48″x96″
\nhistoric book cuttings on paper on board, frame made in collaboration with the artist’s father, Gordon Oatman
\n2013
\nPhotograph courtesy of Miller\/Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

COLLAGE ON VIEW Unfoldingobject at Concord Art in Concord, Massachusetts, USA 20 June-11 August 2019 “Unfoldingobject” is the next exhibition an ongoing series to invite outside curators to organize themed exhibitions at Concord Art. Curated by artist and teacher Todd…<\/p>\n

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