Assemblage

"Assemblage" is the 3-D version of "collage”. "Found object fragments," "discards," or "throwaways" (artist's work to look at: Schwitters, Cornell, Rauschenberg, Bearden, etc.).


These things are organized by their specific elements. The resulting groups are then arranged into compositions of art.


Extending to many cultures of people living in family, religious, work, and various other groups; We could be viewed as a complex living version of "assemblage”(Webster 1. a group of persons or things gathered or collected).


We have “found” each other by chance; either by blood, common goals, or a certain chemistry. These connections help to formulate new ideas, innovations, and even new generations. John Anderson

Saturday, March 30, 2019

The Art Institute of Chicago (AIC)

 I hope some of you can benefit from various methods I use to inform my art.
My focus today was:
1. A three channel digital video installation” about the erosion of the merger between two groups of countries, one group wanting independence from colonization; and another group of countries connected by the same religion. (Informs my need to represent a socio-political reference in my paintings.)
2. Mezzotints of Hamanishi Katsunori. (His images inform my jewelry)
3. And from catalogues in the Ryerson&Burnham Library, abstract prints and paintings by Helen Frankenthaler. (Informs my Painting; Abstract Expressionism is the greatest mystery to me, and therefore the most challenging.)














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