Layered Meanings Works on Paper features collage, assemblage, montage. ARTIST AND CNM FACULTY MEMBER
In all three mediums, the items are
CHANDLER WIGTON was teaching
often discarded, finding a new life and
a Collage at Home class on Zoom last
meaning in the the work. Santa Fe artist
summer for the Museum when the idea
Dana Newmann, for example, used
for a Works on Paper exhibition was
abandoned piano keys in Ivory, I. Valerie
born. Wigton used examples from the
Roybal used collaged paper and historic
permanent collection to demonstrate the
photographs. “I think my favorite works in
differences between collage, montage,
the exhibit are the Valerie Roybal collages
and assemblage for the class. He showed
on old photographs from the Incurable
his presentation to Curator of Art
series,” says Wigton. “Knowing the
Josie Lopez, and the seeds of Layered
backstory that she was living with breast
Meanings were planted.
cancer when she made them makes
The exhibition includes works by
them incredibly powerful. They are also
Robert Rauschenberg, Valerie Roybal,
aesthetically engaging to look at, with the
Jerry Uelsmann and Carlos Quinto
old black and white photos and the color
Kemm, among others. It also includes a
imagery. I also think they took on another
number of local artists who have not been
life with the pandemic and Covid-19.” The
shown before in the Museum, says Lacey
Roybal works were recently purchased
Chrisco, assistant curator of art, who
for the permanent collection through an
worked closely with Wigton and Lopez to
intiative with Albuquerque-based Richard
curate the exhibition.
Levy Galley to raise funds for breast
The word “collage” comes from the
Valerie Roybal, Untitled (from the series: Incurables), 2016-2018, collaged paper on historic photograph, Albuquerque Museum, gift of Mark Unverzagt and Laura Fashing, PC2019.61.3
cancer research.
French, “coller” or to stick together. In many cases, collages are made from mundane items, such as newspaper or magazine clippings, pieces of fabric, or other ephemera arranged and stuck together on a single-plane surface. Assemblage is a three-dimensional collage, and montage is an assembly of related images that create a unified composition.
ON VIEW LAYERED MEANINGS August 7, 2021– February 20, 2022
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Cheyenne #31, ca. 1980s, watercolor and collage on paper, Albuquerque Museum, gift of Marge Devon, PC1990.85.3
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