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Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century - Exhibitions - Louis Stern Fine Arts

Tony Berlant

August 7, 1946:  Icon (#1-1991), 1991

found metal collage mounted on plywood

23 x 21 inches; 58.4 x 53.3 centimeter

Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century

November 11, 1995 through January 8, 1996

Louis Stern Fine Arts opens a group exhibition of mixed media collages, Pasted Papers: Collage and the 20th Century.

Pasted Papers will bring together work by well-known modern and contemporary artists with collages by emerging and recently established talents. The exhibition, organized by Louis Stern and critic-historian Peter Frank, features over 60 two-dimensional collages produced in the last 85 years.

Artists in the exhibition include classic European collagists such as Jean Arp, Giacomo Balla, John Heartfield, Kurt Schwitters, and Solomon Telingater; American modernists such as Ilya Bolotowsky, Hans Burkhardt, Joseph Cornell, Burgoyne Diller, Balcombe Greene, Gertrude Greene, Anne Ryan, Joseph Stella, and Charmion von Wiegand; postwar masters such as Romare Bearden, Al Hansen, Ray Johnson, Jiri Kolar, Alfred Leslie, Conrad Marca-Relli, Robert Motherwell, Robert Rauschenberg, and Emerson Woelffer; important contemporaries such as Larry Bell, Tony Berlant, Elaine Lustig Cohen, Bruce Conner, Tony De Lap, Roy Dowell, George Herms, Peter Plagens, and Alexis Smith; and many others. 

A reception for the exhibition will be held in conjunction with the West Hollywood galleries on Saturday, November 11, from 5:00pm to 8:00pm. 

Pasted Papers: Collage and the Twentieth Century will be on view during gallery hours: Tuesday through Friday, 10am-6pm and Saturdays, 11am-5pm.

Louis Stern Fine Arts is located at the southwest corner of Melrose Avenue and Almont Drive. Parking is available at the APCOA lot on Almont Drive.

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