Group Show

December 1 - December 23, 2009

“Meditations on Collage” with Tom Judd, Joe McAleer, Peter Pezzimenti, Ani Rosskam, David Slovic, and Ivan Stojakovic

The Bridgette Mayer Gallery is pleased to announce its Fall 2009 Group Show. Meditations on Collage will be on view from December 1 – 23, 2009, with an opening reception the second Friday of the month, December 11th, from 6:00 - 8:30 pm. The exhibition will feature collage works by area artists Tom Judd and Ani Rosskam, New York artist Peter Pezzimenti, and Bridgette Mayer Gallery artists Joe McAleer, David Slovic and Ivan Stojakovic.

Meditations on Collage is a curated group show focusing on the often unsung art form of collage. The medium gained recognition during the early 20th century throughout the Cubism and Dada movements, when artists such as Pablo Picasso and Kurt Schwitters incorporated collage techniques into their work, introducing objects and fabrics to the surface of the canvas, and building cut-and-paste compositions. The technique persisted throughout the last century, employed by such artists as Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Richard Prince, and has played a key role in the development of art forms such as installation, digital and video art.

The six artists in Meditations on Collage each approach the medium in their own manner: Tom Judd uses a variety of materials, from maps and photographs, to wallpaper and recipe books to create compositions that "impart a contradictory sense of loss and discovery on the viewer"; Joe McAleer constructs optical designs from mixed media and acrylic, which take the artist on an "odyssey of abstraction"; New York artist Peter Pezzimenti paints in a consistently simplistic aesthetic style of conceptual collage, "a necessary anecdote to the highly concentrated imagery of many of [his] peers"; Ani Rosskam juxtaposes incongruous objects and images as a way of piecing together her life experiences and creating stimulating "visual poems"; David Slovic works with multiple abstract chromogenic images of light, "points of brilliance in an endless progression," which he assembles into individual compositions; Ivan Stojakovic contrasts the sleek surface of stainless steel with built-up biomorphic painting in order to challenge the viewer to "transcend the dichotomies between nature and artifice."

Gallery hours are Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 a.m.- 6:00 p.m. & by appointment. For additional information please contact Bridgette Mayer at (p) 215-413-8893 (f) 215-413-2283

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