and collage or assemblage or whatever the hell you call it:
“However. Since then I have come across a million – yes, it seems like a million – artists who use a bird in a box as a launch-pad. It’s very tempting to use an ethereal night-sky in a collage (I’m as guilty as anyone), but much more difficult to make it your own. Of course Joseph Cornell doesn’t own the sky – in fact maybe Max Ernst (below), a more sweeping, exhaustive artist, beat him to it – but it is the challenge of any collage artist to make the methods and materials and images their own. It must speak to his great talent and ownership of imagery, for what I see way too often is that many artists haven’t bothered to do that.”
subjective vs. objective, Eva Lake, December 12, 2007
I like Cornell’s work, too bad this show isn’t somewhere I’m willing to drag my carcass to. Oh well. Seems like the retrospective isn’t traveling. Too bad for me.
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I moved all of my collages to Ginger Mayerson Collage. Much less clunkier than Blogspot. If you had it bookmarked or had an RSS feed, this is the new addy, and there are a slew of feeds on the sidebar. And if you had it bookmarked and an RSS feed going, hey, thank you!
(I moved because I got tired of explaining whose work was whose. Although I’m sure no one would ever be confused as to who did this collage.)
No hope from either architecture or science.
Enjoy!
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I’m in a collage show at the Acorn Annex in Highland Park. The work actually has Los Angeles-ness in it. This is from the introduction to the book that goes with the show:
“Mayerson reads the city differently. In ‘Traveling Light 2,’ a time exposure night photograph of downtown Los Angeles turns the cars on the freeway into streaks of light in contrast to the office buildings whose lit windows form a black and white checkerboard. In the foreground a steer crosses the light streaked freeway. Standing on its back, a small Asian boy dressed in a ceremonial Japanese kimono so barely touches the steer as to almost float above it. The steer is plodding and tired while the boy is youthful, but serious. Thus, the powerful city of Los Angeles is pictured by Mayerson as the intersection of East and West.”
From the introduction to LA Collage, by Suzanne Siegel, 2007
Here’s the scoop on the show and opening reception:
LA COLLAGE
Opening reception August 11, 2007, 7-10 PM
Exhibition runs from August 6-20, 2002
Acorn Annex
135 N Avenue 50 (between Figueroa and Monte Vista, at the Metro tracks)
Los Angeles, CA 90042
Gallery hours: Saturday and Sunday, 12-4 PM
For other hours, directions and information, please call: 323-258-1435
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Gah. Are we far enough away from the horrors of the world to do a little collage blogging (until next time)? I hope so.
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Winter, by K Mas-Gallegos
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