COLLAGE ON VIEW
at Jack Fischer Gallery in San Francisco, California, USA by way of 20 December 2024. Maritta Tapanainen’s collages and David Fought’s sculptures at first look couldn’t be extra totally different. But each artists, as they look at kind and line and the area between, have interaction us within the dialog. Tapanainen’s work makes use of probably the most delicate of supplies for her collages and what’s fascinating is that the plaster surfaces of Fought’s sculptures are additionally delicate and fragile, but they seem stable inside their realm of affect. They each share an abstraction ethos. These abstractions by Fought and Tapanainen deliver to our eyes an concept of Agnes Martin’s explorations. Particularly as we look at their surfaces, each works start to method coloration area work. Learn Extra
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Kolaj Journal, a full coloration, print journal, exists to point out how the world of collage is wealthy, layered, and thick with complexity. By remixing historical past and tradition, collage artists forge new pondering. To grasp collage is to reshape one’s pondering of artwork historical past and redefine the canon of visible tradition that informs the current.