
Cross generational in approach, and underscoring a diversity of materials that are stitched, crimped, nailed, and pasted together, both sculptural and painted, the exhibition follows the wide array of methods and techniques for layering. Retooling the term first put to use in the 1960s as an important innovation in abstraction, the exhibition offers a contemporary vantage for artworks which take on the impulse of gathering.
The title of the exhibition, borrowed from a 1955 Merce Cunningham piece costumed by Robert Rauschenberg, pays homage to the first generation of assemblage artists for whom the term was coined. The artists gathered in the exhibition continue to investigate the formal tenets set forth over half a century ago, enriching this field with today's socio-political concerns.
Works


Souvenir (Dizzy, Liberty, Tower), 2013

Usual Business, 2018

Usual Business, 2018

Usual Business, 2018

Usual Business, 2018

Usual Business, 2018

P.I.F., 2018-2020

Origin of Afro-Esotericism, 2018-2020

Natter, 2013

My name is not Susan, 2021

Stop Don’t Shoot, 2015

We make it easy, you make it home., 2020

Armario de la Memoria (Wardrobe of Memory), 2012

Work Animal 1, 2014

Air Mask (Red, White and Blue), 1990

February, 2021

20 looted and some repatriated artifacts, 2019

14 deaccessioned artifacts, 2019

Understand the Light in All Directions, 2018

This Will Not Be Alright, 2016
