Collages and Constructions, Mixed Media

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Curated by:

Menino Arts Center

".....collage upended the fine-art world when Cubists Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso incorporated bits of newspaper and printed wallpaper into their paintings, subverting traditional definitions of what is important art. Combining painting, real-world objects, images, and ephemera into a single work, collage directly questions the tendency to separate fine art from everyday objects, the delineations between so-called high and low culture, and the status of the artist.

Adopted by subsequent artists, collage became a dominant technique in the Dada, Surrealist, Pop Art, and Neo-Dada movements, each using the technique to explore different subject matters. Because collage often incorporates mass-produced images, the practice is often inseparable from its historical and political context, making it a mode of powerful social commentary. Contemporary artists continue to explore the richness of collage in their efforts to question assumptions, biases, and pressing political crises." - https://www.theartstory.org/definition/collage/

Juror: Ekua Holmes, artist, illustrator, designer
www.ekuaholmes.com

About her work, Holmes said, “In everything I create I hear them saying, ‘Remember Me,’ and through my work I honor their legacies by bringing them forward to life with torn and cut shapes of found colors and textures. With these scraps and remnants, assembled like a down-home quilt, I rebuild my world, putting in what speaks to my personal and cultural narrative.”

Curated by Sasja Lucas
www.sasjalucas.com

Artists:

Nancy Carbonaro
Shaanti Williams
Rosemarie Michmerhuizen
Dominique Foody
Amy Hitchcock
Barbara Ayala Diehl
Mardi Reed
Lyasya Sinkovski
Lynn Dann
Nancy Marks
Marnie Jain
Kirstin Ilse
Richard H Eyster
Erica S Nazzaro
Susan Strouse
Susan Leskin
Bobby Brown
Joan Green
Phyllis Bluhm
Mary McCusker
Maritza Ranero
Robert Johnson Jr
Brent Ridge
Elaine P Hawkes
Ruth Rosner
Andrea Tamkin
Janice M Williams
Keith Maddy
Charles Crump
Terry Boutelle
Catherine Caddigan
Douglas Huntley
Sarah Kahn
Silvina Mizrahi
Donna Tessari
Lydia Polanco
Rachel Paxton
Lois Cremmins

Other exhibitions by Menino Arts Center

Menino Arts Center

The Art of the Quilt

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Menino Arts Center

Photography Exhibition, Boston Camera Club

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Menino Arts Center

Morphed Visions, Objects Reimagined

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Menino Arts Center

Curry College Seniors, Students, Alumni and Faculty Exhibition

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Menino Arts Center

34th Annual HPAA Members Exhibition at Scollay Square Gallery

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