‘In Quotes’ – Exhibition of collage and assemblage features Dr Sharon Kivland
Reader in Fine Art Dr Sharon Kivland will have work featured in IN QUOTES, an exhibition taking place at the Gerald Moore Gallery , opening on 17 March and running until 19 May 2018.
IN QUOTES – Collage and assemblage in contemporary art
Gerald Moore Gallery, London SE9
Saturday 17 March – Saturday 19 May 2018 10AM-4PM
Opening event: Saturday 17 March 2018, 12PM-4PM
Social media has made ventriloquists of us all – through our online profiles and timelines we speak in quotations, found images, videos and music, each of us creating a unique assemblage that expresses an individual sense of self. Speaking through found media has become a shared language, a common tongue. Collage, as a medium, has never been more relevant.
Thinking about the ubiquity of this new form of assemblage offers us a lens through which we might consider, or reconsider, artworks made in the medium of collage. Clement Greenberg’s seminal text, Collage, attributed the invention of the technique to Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso – in its relatively short history how has the medium changed, and how has our reading of it changed? In a world saturated with images, how do contemporary artists arrest our insatiable consumption of images? Greenberg observed that the technique’s “flatness of the surface permeates the illusion, and the illusion itself reasserts the flatness. The effect is to fuse the illusion with the picture plane without derogation of either – in principle.”
This exhibition will present works by a range of contemporary artists working with collage and assemblage, across generations, made both pre- and post- internet.
Sharon Kivland‘s series MOI (2016-17) shares a dialogue with Linder’s exploration of the representation of women, in a group of hand drawn straplines taken from magazines of the 1950s.
Featured artists: Rebecca Byrne, Tim Davies, Cristina Garrido, Jorge de la Garza, Mike Goddard, Susan Hiller, Rowena Hughes, Ann-Marie James, Sharon Kivland, Linder, Alex March, Holly Stevenson, John Stezaker.
Curated by Ann-Marie James and supported by Karsten Schubert, London.
Photo credit: John Stezaker: Mask LXXIX; collage; 22.3 x 18.2 cm / 8 4/5” x 7 1/5”; Courtesy The Approach, London. Photo: FXP photography
Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University. Find out more about Sharon Kivland’s work here.