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The first U.S. survey exhibition of Los Angeles artist Richard Hawkins will travel to the Hammer Museum from The Art Institute of Chicago this winter. Richard Hawkins: Third Mind consists of more than 60 objects, including books, collages, drawings, paintings, and sculptures spanning his twenty-year career. ...
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German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948) is one of the most influential figures to have emerged from the international avant-garde in the years following the First World War. In response to the turmoil and changes then wracking German society, Schwitters developed a unique form of artistic practice, one that merged art and life and utilized found objects and everyday materials. ...
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Bolstered by alternative historical precedents or influences and infused each time with new ways of seeing, he takes his subject well beyond personal indulgence into the realm of a deeply engaged rethinking of representation. Critical pairings are primal matter, making collage not simply a medium for Hawkins but a philosophy/methodology that defines his art. His earliest mature statements took the form of collage, and the medium has held firm within his oeuvre ever since. For this reason, Richard Hawkins: Third Mind—the artist’s first American museum survey—is largely focused on his collage-based work as a ...
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In spite of serious and ongoing health problems, collage artist Ann Irwin created an extensive body of complex works that sometimes expressed her fears and troubles, but were often whimsical and light-hearted as well. Even during her final illness in 2005, when she was confined to a hospital bed for several weeks, she continued to draw and make collages until just a few days before she died.This exhibition is drawn from the private collection of Irwin's family and samples several decades of her highly-detailed, meticulously crafted collages, ...
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