"Remix: Selections from the International Collage Center (ICC)", Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA

October 14–December 4, 2011
Exhibition reception: October 28, 2011, 6:30–7:30 pm

Installation images of “Remix” at the Samek Art Gallery

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Michel Alexis, Ralph Arnold, John Ashbery, Nora Aslan, Alice Attie, Sarah G. Austin, Radcliffe Bailey, Hannelore Baron, Marc Bell, Barton Lidicé Beneš, Lynda Benglis, Mieczyslaw Berman, Varujan Boghosian, Joe Brainard, Thomas Campbell, Joel Carreiro, Buster Cleveland, Colette, Felipe Jesus Consalvos, Michael Cooper, Chris Corales, Joseph Cornell, Robert Courtright, Matthew Cusick, Kate Davis, Dominick Di Meo, Josh Dorman, Ron Ehrlich, India Evans, John Evans, Robert Forman, Adam Fowler, John Fraser, Nobu Fukui, James Garrett Faulkner, Vanessa German, Ilse Getz, Max Greis, Geoffrey Hendricks, Addie Herder, Clinton Hill, Ashkan Honarvar, Jess, Jerry Jofen, Ray Johnson, Don Joint, Ken Kewley, Adam King, Alison Knowles, Jiří Kolář, Kühne / Klein, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Elaine Lustig-Cohen, John McCluskey, Richard Meier, Salvatore Meo, Dan Mills, Mario Naves, Robert Nickle, Michael Oatman, Robert Ohnigian, John O'Reilly, Stas Orlovski, Judy Pfaff, Philadelphia Wireman, Javier Piñón, David Poppie, Mac Premo, Antonio Puleo, Jakob Roepke, Miriam Schapiro, Holli Schorno, Andreas Senser, Donna Sharrett, Karen Shaw, Ann Shostrom, Gail Skudera, Sally Smart, Stella Snead, John Sparagana, Julie Speed, William Steiger, Oriane Stender, John Stezaker, Maritta Tapanainen, Carlos Vega, Jaques Villeglé, Mark Wagner, Bradley Wester, Aaron Wexler, Jane Wilbraham, C.K. Wilde, May Wilson, Ray Yoshida, Rhonda Zwillinger

The International Collage Center (ICC) is a non-profit art organization dedicated to the study and appreciation of Collage and its related forms, including Assemblage, Photomontage and Mixed-Media Installation. Based in Milton, Pennsylvania, the focus of the ICC is a permanent lending and research collection, accompanied by a study center and archive for academic research. These resources will be available to members of the public for both educational and curatorial programming. In addition to the permanent display of the collection in Pennsylvania we will be actively working with national and international partners to exhibit works from the ICC collection.

"Remix" co-curated by Founder & Artistic Director Pavel Zoubok and Director Rachael Lawe is a survey exhibition featuring selections from the ICC's permanent collection as well as loans from prominent artists and collectors. "Remix" highlights the initial phase of the collection, which is being established through generous donations by leading artists, collectors and arts professionals. This exhibition at Bucknell's Samek Art Gallery will be the first installment of a national tour of university museums and galleries over the next two years.

The narrative of Collage is woven through the history of modern and contemporary art. It is an expansive and encyclopedic concept with its own unique lexicon of forms and values. The ICC Collection gathers together the diverse fragments of this rich artistic tradition to create vital links between historical and contemporary practices, to "remix" the narrative of Collage.

With a varied history that reaches back through centuries of artistic expression, it was within the twentieth century that Collage emerged as a major force through a range of artistic movements. The term developed from the French word coller meaning to glue or stick, with Picasso and Braque using the term papier collé to describe a revolutionary approach to art making. This is the narrowest definition of the term, which quickly expanded to include diverse practices such as Assemblage and Photomontage. Over time these terms came to signify much more than a simple art technique, but represented an approach, philosophy and perception of the modern world. The terms were also inextricably bound with the concept of the Avant-garde, beginning with Cubism, Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism. Collage continued to be a core catalyst in later art movements including Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Pop Art and Fluxus. Modernity was characterized by a shift and reappraisal of the boundaries between life and art; Collage was a vital part of this process. It included a vast array of materials from the quotidian to the precious and subjects both universal and personal. Collage conveyed immediacy and intimacy both in its production and in the viewer's response. Found images and objects, culled from daily life, were recast and reimagined in singular works of art. Collage continues to be a forum for ingenuity and invention in contemporary art practice.

The expansive nature of Collage has resulted in a field of study that frequently eludes definition. Narratives of Collage are often subsumed by the larger histories of specific artists and movements. The ICC Collection and "Remix" explores the history of Collage with a decidedly inclusive vision, celebrating the past while profiling emerging artists who continue to expand the discourse.

"Remix" explores many of the dominant themes of Collage and mixed-media, including; the long-standing relationship between Collage and Poetry, the use of Collage as an extension of painting both in figuration and abstraction, Collage as a form of cultural, social and political resistance and Collage as an expression of the diaristic and archival impulse. Materials and process have always played a central role in Collage. Artists employ all manner of printed ephemera to explore a broad range of subjects such as mapping, commercial culture, appropriation and technology. Equally important is the question of scale, with many artists challenging the spatial and material boundaries of this traditionally intimate art form.

The visual culture of Collage is more relevant today than ever, asserting itself not only as a rich formal language, but also as a mode of perception. Fragmentation, fracture, sampling, appropriation, hybrids, and layering are all fundamental concepts that define the field of Collage. These terms have become a fundamental part of our collective consciousness, particularly in the ever-expanding realm of Cyberspace, which is rapidly asserting itself as the newest frontier in Collage. The vital links between the historical past and our technology-driven present are central to the ICC's mission and to the spirit of this exhibition.

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Related Programming

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion organized by the ICC and the Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University in conjunction with "Remix:Selections from the ICC". Participants: Samek Art Gallery Director Richard Rinehart, ICC Founder and Artistic Director Pavel Zoubok and artists Alice Attie and Mark Wagner

Friday, October 28, 2011, 5:30–6:30pm

October 28, at 5:30 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center, Bucknell University. The panel discussion moderated by Richard Rinehart, director of the Samek Art Gallery with Pavel Zoubok, Alice Attie and Mark Wagner, is free and open to the public.

Alice Attie is a visual artist who lives and works in New York City. Attie's 'works on paper' include collage and ink drawings. She is also a widely published photographer. Her works are in many collections including those of the Whitney Museum and the Jewish Museum in New York City. She has a Masters of Fine Arts in poetry and a Doctoral degree in Comparative literature. In the disciplines of art, she is self-taught. Major exhibitions include The Aldrich Museum, The Drawing Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Mark Wagner is a visual artist best known for his currency collage and interdisciplinary artist books. He is a co-founder of The Booklyn Artists Alliance and publishes art and literature under the name of X-ing Books. His work is in numerous public collections including: the Museum of Modern Art, The Walker Art Center, and the Library of Congress. Hiswork has been shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Getty Research Institute, and The Smithsonian Institution.

Film Screening

Monday, November 14, 2011, 7:00–9:30pm

Film screening at the Campus Theatre, Lewisburg, PA. "Portraits of three artists included in the 'Remix' exhibition—Joseph Cornell, May Wilson and Ray Johnson" The short films include: "Cornell 1965," filmed and edited by Lawrence Jordan, 1965; "Woo Who? May Wilson," directed by Amalie R. Rothschild, 1970 and "How to Draw A Bunny," directed by John W. Walter, 2002.

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