The idea of Collage is quite genuinely ingrained in the conceptual start of Modern Art. In 1912 Picasso opened the gate with “Still-life with Chair Caning” to integrate real life objects in a work of Art. The printed canvas started the dialogue of a painted still-life with a mass-produced representation, the work itself references the conditions of its creation.
Daniel Richter could be seen in a tradition of political collage work in the arts. He doesn’t shy away from using a variety of materials to convey a vivid framework for his pictorial, formal, and sociological research into figure and form.

 

Lari Pittman densely structured picture planes combine elements from a manifold universe in a painterly matter. His sources range from European and Colonial American aesthetics juxtaposed with indigenous cultural languages, represented in form and color decisions.

Jack Pierson has been mastering the wide range of visual pleasure and emotional wit with precise formal decisions. The print series “Twilight” spreads an emotionally highly charged personell of Hollywood movie stars in a meticulously produced print project.

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Image: Jack Pierson, My Sin, 2010 (from Twilight, series with 14 motifs)