Our collage exhibit (yet unnamed) is about a month away. I’m in pretty good shape, and am starting to frame the pieces. The hardest part is not starting new work when I have ideas. I have some jewel cases laid out to complete, as they were the impetus for this whole thing. I also would like to work on some large paintings based on some of the collages–tightening some, loosening others–but I can’t think about that now. Coincidently, collages will be featured in the 2008-09 Multidisciplinary Initiative at Penn State. There will be lectures and exhibits on The Culture of Collage right before our show, which hopefully will peak peoples’ interest. Here is a sampling:
Lecture: The Culture of Collage- A Moments of Change Event
Posted by: Institute for the Arts & Humanities
Location: Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art
Location: Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art
Details:
LectureGlue, Paper, Scissors: Picasso as Bricoleur in
1912
LectureGlue, Paper, Scissors: Picasso as Bricoleur in
1912
Exhibition: The Culture of Collage – A Moments of Change Event
Posted by: Institute for the Arts & Humanities
Location: Zoller Gallery
Location: Zoller Gallery
Details:
September 29 – October 24Exhibition: The Culture of CollagePerhaps no art form expresses the character of the
twentieth century with greater clarity and
immediacy than collage. Collage is a mode of
perception, a multi-dimensional language with
aesthetic implications that span the histories of
art, architecture, literature, and music. In the
visual arts, collage first emerged in the early 20th
century as a fine art medium in the “pasted
papers” of Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo
Picasso. Collage allows the artist to explore
simultaneously the spaces between high art and
popular culture, text and image, figuration and
abstraction, past and present, as well as two- and
three-dimensional space. Curated by New York
gallerist Pavel Zoubok, this exhibition includes an
historical overview of the collage form as well as
a look at contemporary collage practice.Co-sponsored by the School of Visual Arts John M.
Anderson Endowment and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New
York).
September 29 – October 24Exhibition: The Culture of CollagePerhaps no art form expresses the character of the
twentieth century with greater clarity and
immediacy than collage. Collage is a mode of
perception, a multi-dimensional language with
aesthetic implications that span the histories of
art, architecture, literature, and music. In the
visual arts, collage first emerged in the early 20th
century as a fine art medium in the “pasted
papers” of Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo
Picasso. Collage allows the artist to explore
simultaneously the spaces between high art and
popular culture, text and image, figuration and
abstraction, past and present, as well as two- and
three-dimensional space. Curated by New York
gallerist Pavel Zoubok, this exhibition includes an
historical overview of the collage form as well as
a look at contemporary collage practice.Co-sponsored by the School of Visual Arts John M.
Anderson Endowment and the Pavel Zoubok Gallery (New
York).
Of course, there is the Still Life Project, which I will start on this weekend.
