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Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum

December 1, 2018 - August 18, 2019

Mint Museum Uptown

 

Loris Cecchini. Lost in Steps (greenpepperpowderscape), 2005, Lambda print on Plexiglas. Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection. 2013.68.1

 

Felicia van Bork. How to Mine the Past, 2012, monotype collage.

Gift of Jerald Melberg and Felicia van Bork. 2016.9. © Felicia van Bork, 2012

Howardena Pindell.Autobiography: East/West (Gardens),1983, acrylic, gouache, tempera, postcards on museum board. Gift of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters: Hassam, Speicher, Betts and Symons Funds 1992. 1992.3. © 1983 Howardena Pindell

 

Collage is the artistic technique in which materials are cut, torn, shredded, and so on, and then layered to create a new meaning or narrative. While collaging gained recognition in the early twentieth century, it experienced an upswing following World War IIparticularly in Americathanks in part to Charlotte born artist Romare Bearden. Under Construction: Collage from The Mint Museum is the the institution's first large scale exhibition exploring the technique and shows the development of this medium through the works of Bearden and others from the 1950s to present day. Notable artists featured include Robert Motherwell, Tim Rollins and K.O.S, Sam Gilliam, Howardena Pindell, Dario Robleto, Donald Sultan, and James Rosenquist. The impact of the collage aesthetic on other artistic fields, such as painting, print making, photography, and assemblage work, is also explored. Showcasing more than a hundred works of art from over fifty international artists, Under Construction draws primarily from the rich holdings of the Mint Museum, but also includes special loans from private collections and new works by some of today's leading artists who continue to mine and invigorate this approach. 

 

Selected Resources 

 

Print Resources From the Mint Museum Library

  • Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post-War America by Thomas Pichce Jr., Mark Alice Durant, and Melissa Pearl Friedling
  • Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art by Leslie Umberger 
  • Collage: The Making of Modern Art by Brandon Taylor 
  • Collage in All Dimensions co-edited by Gretchen Bierbam and Petrina Gardner 
  • Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object by Diane Waldman  

 

Artists 

 

  • Ken Aptekar 

    • Aptekar was commissioned by the Mint Museum to create a new work based off of Queen Charlotte's coronation portrait. This then prompted The Guardian to write a piece on the debate surrounding the Queen's ancestry. 

 

 

  • Romare Bearden  

    • NPR reports how Bearden was the subject of the National Gallery of Art's first major retrospective of an African-American artist in 2003 and provides some analysis into his collage work.   

        

                       

                

 

 

 

 

  • Lisa Hoke

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  • Rick Horton

    • Some of Horton's collages are housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and can be seen here.
  • Nils Karsten   

    • An interview between Karsten and The WILD magazine.
  • Jiří Kolář

    • The Instituto Tomie Ohtake in Brazil presented a exhibition on Kolar in 2017 and talk about his collage making process. 
    • This post from Tres Bohemes—a website focusing on Czech and Slovak culture—provides background information on Kolar and contains pictures some of his collages. 
  • Anne Lemanski

    • A picture of Lemanski's work table while in the middle of constructing a collage. 

 

  

What About BOB Nelson? from Natural Light Films on Vimeo.

  

  • John O'Reilly 

    • This article ties into O'Reilly's retrospective, Studio Odyssey, that took place in 2017. The writer also analyzes several of O'Reilly's pieces and discusses how he created them using found objects such as photographs, art books, magazines, and coloring books. 
  • Christopher Pelley 

    • Pelley's blog contains posts written between 2010 and 2015.  
  • Eva Pennink 

      • Several of Pennink's black and white photo albums are housed at the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam and can be seen here

 

 

  • Marek Ranis

  • Robert Rauschenberg

    • Profile from PBS' American Masters series.
    • Artspace's article "The Artist Who 'Invented the Most Since Picasso': Robert Rauschenberg's Innovations in Art" can be found here
    • Film on the artist's 1977 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art
  • Man Ray 

    • Ray's film, Emak Bakia, and the prints included in the exhibition were both created in 1926. 

 

  • Dario Robleto

    • One of Robleto's pieces shown in the video below, "Defiant Gardens," is in the exhibition.

 

  

                    

Artist vs. Monsanto: Kirsten Stolle shines a light on chemical companies from Blue Ridge Public Radio on Vimeo.

 

 

  • Esteban Vicente

    • This article from 2013 talks about the exhibition Esteban Vicente: The Art of Interruption at the Asheville Art Museum and his use of collages. 
  • Mark Wagner 

    • Interview with Wagner from Pocket Change: the Blog of the American Numismatic Society 

                    

 

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Created by Rylee Aquilanti, Intern for the Mint Museum Library - Summer 2018