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Allegorical Procedures: Bay Area Collage, 1950 – PresentPost an Event »
San Francisco State University
September 20 - October 16, 2014Info
1600 Holloway Ave. San Francisco, CA 94132 Google Map »
This show surveys collage practices in the Bay Area, including related practices of décollage, assemblage, photomontage and détournement. Collage will be conceived broadly as an “allegorical” technique of signification that relies on methods of “confiscation, superimposition and fragmentation,” as Benjamin Buchloh observed in his 1980 theorization of collage and montage.
The exhibition looks back to such well-known precedents as Wallace Berman, Jess, Bruce Conner and the Bay Area Dadaist/Mail art scene of the 1970s, as well as other contemporary artists employing and/or expanding the practice of collage. The Sept. 20opening features a series of brief performances by Chris Froh, playing on artist Terry Berlier’s work “Pan Lid Gamelan II.” 1 - 3 p.m.