Reception: Friday, October 30, 7-9 PM
Press Preview 6-7 PM
October 15, 2009, Brooklyn, NY – NURTUREart
Non-Profit, Inc. is pleased to present Collage:Collage, a
group exhibition curated by Jackie Klempay at its gallery at 910 Grand Street in East Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. The exhibition featur... Read more
Reception: Friday, October 30, 7-9 PM
Press Preview 6-7 PM
October 15, 2009, Brooklyn, NY – NURTUREart
Non-Profit, Inc. is pleased to present Collage:Collage, a
group exhibition curated by Jackie Klempay at its gallery at 910 Grand Street in East Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. The exhibition features Agathe de Bailliencourt, Sandra Eula Lee, Shana Moulton,
Margit Raczkowski, Dylan Spaysky, Jennifer Sullivan, Michael Krumenacker, Melinda Yale
and Carlo Vialu.
Collage: Collage showcases nine contemporary artists who freely borrow, then deviate from art history
to use collage as a tool for their own ends. Bringing together a diverse array of media including
video, sculpture, installation and performance, Jackie Klempay has created a curatorial collage in the
gallery. Displayed together, the works in this show build layers of meaning onto one another, as each
work responds to another artist’s use of the medium today. She writes: “Historically, artists have
been drawn to collage in times of turbulence as a way to make sense of, and to lighten the severity of
surrounding chaos.” The bright colors, childish forms, and slaphappy construction of works in this
collection may appear to speak of hedonism and bacchanalia, but deeper themes of war, despair,
alienation and loss lurk under the surface.
Collage is a unique (non)media practice, capable by definition of formally doing what no other
media can. Borrowing at will from any number of sources, a collage literally builds layers of original
information into a new aesthetic unit. Klempay’s ambitious exhibition not only extends this idea to
the gallery itself, but also brings us work as layered and rich in interpretive possibility as it is in
formal approach.
