The Carnegie Museum of Art has announced that the opening reception for Exhibition X: An Incomplete Examination of Collage in Modern Art will be held on Saturday, October 21st from 5 to 8 p.m.
The exhibition will be held from October 21st to February 3rd.
The Carnegie Museum of Art will also host a “Beer + Bloodies” event in its galleries, where visitors can tour exhibits with curators Matt Distell and Scott Speh and interact with exhibiting artists. “Beers + Bloodies” will be held on Sunday, October 22nd from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Both events are free and open to the public.
Exhibit X is a high-level examination of collage strategies and techniques across a variety of media. Rather than organizing the exhibition in terms of specific themes, the curators chose a more messy and free approach, grouping the works together under one building.
Matt Distell, Carnegie Executive Director and Curator, said: “Exhibition The invitation not only continues Carnegie’s interest in introducing Kentucky and Ohio artists to outside curators, but also allows artists from the region to exhibit alongside fellow artists across generations and regions. It also provides opportunities.
“While Scott and I are sympathetic to artists, we have slightly different interests, which creates a nice tension in the selection of works that results in a wide range of works being exhibited at the Carnegie Museum of Art. I did.”
The technique of collage has appeared in multiple media and art-making communities since the early 20th century, allowing artists to seize the elements at hand to create unexpected images, resulting in a combination of the more formal elements of fine art. A quick way to turn it around has been created. Exhibition X explores current trends in collage that employ digital processes and mark a return to handmade objects.
Exhibiting artists include singer, artist, and activist Michael Stipe, best known for his work with the band REM. Other artists include prolific Chicago artist Thomas Kong (b. 1950 – d. 2023). His iconic convenience store, Rogers Park, displayed his collages and assemblages. C.T. King (b. 1973- (died in 2023) was reused. King was an extremely prolific artist who used collage as his primary medium to build worlds that bent reality into environments that were equally grotesque and beautiful.
Local artists from Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky include Terrence Hammonds, Musinda Imani Abdullah Broadus, and Michael Schuler. Terrence Hammonds’ work is in the permanent collections of the Cincinnati Art Museum, 21C Museum Hotel, and the Newark Museum of Art. The Over-the-Rhine native’s ceramic work was featured in the 2017 group exhibition “UnFunction” at the Weston Art Gallery, where 12 of his pieces were purchased by actress Jamie Lee Curtis. It also became a hot topic.
Exhibition X is curated by Carnegie Executive Director Matt Distell and Scott Speh, founder and director of Chicago’s Western Exhibitions. Western Exhibitions is a contemporary art gallery showcasing thought-provoking and visually innovative artists working in most media, with an emphasis on personal narrative and cosmology. LGBTQ and feminist artists and issues. Patterns, decorations and surface issues. Work on paper. And an artist book.
Featured artists include M’Shinda Imani Abdullah Broaddus, Marshall Brown, Thomas Dozol, Edie Fake, Krista Franklin, Dianna Frid, Greenwich Village Book Desecration League, Terence Hammonds, Julia Schmitt Healy, Joseph Heidecker, CT King, Thomas Kong, Includes Dutes Miller. Ayana Moore, Erin Jane Nelson, Paul Nudd, Sarah Palmer, Briar P. Orridge, Hubert Posey, Kathryn Leffi, Michael Schuler, Dean Smith, Hannah Smith, Deb Sokolow, Stan – Squirewell, Michael Stipe, Erica Townsend.
Exhibit X is free and open to the public. For more information, please visit TheCarnegie.com.
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