Ep 99: Collage, Lee Krasner and Jess w/ Jennifer Coates
We're talking collage! Jennifer Coates joins me in a quest to get to the heart of why collage is such a powerful generator in the studio. We also take a look at 2 artists who used collage in different ways: Lee Krasner and Jess. Krasner used collage at certain key moments to bridge bodies of work, and Jess used collage as his main ecstatic medium spanning more than 4 decades of his output. As Krasner teaches us: "Knife or scissors...no tear! "
Works by Lee Krasner mentioned: Seated Figure 1938-9; Milkweed, Stretched Yellow, Desert Moon, Bird Talk, Blue Level (all 1955); Imperfect Indicative 1976 (Visit Kasmin Gallery for images)
Works by Jess mentioned: Blasted Beauty 1954, The Translations series, Paste-Ups series, Assemblies series, Necrofacts series, Salvages series, Narkissos series 1976-1991, The Unentitled Graces 1978, Dyslecstasy 1991 (See all of his works at https://jesscollins.org/)
Glue Tawk™: Jennifer prefers Matte Medium and Amy agrees but suggests using UHU stick for thin papers
Links to watch/listen:
James Kalm Report on the Outsider Art Fair
Recording Artists: Radical Women Podcast: "Deal With It" on Lee Krasner
Inside New York's Art World 1978 interview by Barbara Lee Diamondstein Spielvogel with Lee Krasner
Proto-collage and assemblage objects & installations: Opificio delle Pietre Dure - Florence, Limoges Casket/Reliquary 13th c, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Capuchin Crypt under Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini, Rome, Shell Grotto, Margate, Kent, Paper lace valentines of the Victorian era, Wishing Trees of Cornwall
Artists mentioned: Hannah Hoch, Lee Krasner, Jess, Artists of the DADA movement, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Wangechi Mutu, Mark Bradford, Chris Martin, Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, Henri Matisse, Hans Hoffman, Piet Mondrian, Illuminators of the Book of Kells, Anne Ryan, Paul Klee, Amy Sillman, Lari Pittman, Marcel Duchamp, Clyfford Still, Hieronymus Bosch, Joseph Cornell, Andrea Burgay, Max-o-matic, Richard Diebenkorn, Robert Motherwell, Henri Matisse, Max Ernst, Kurt Schwitters, Grete Stern
Writers mentioned: Art Reporter and Critic: Stuart Preston; Poets: Robert Duncan and John Ashbery; Gail Levin; Charles Baudelaire; Edgar Allen Poe
Our Book Nook (incl Collage Resources):
Kolaj Magazine and online collage artist directory
The Weird Show online survey of contemporary collage
"Waste Not Want Not: An Inquiry into What Women Saved and Assembled—FEMMAGE" Essay by Miriam Schapiro and Melissa Meyer
Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin
Jess: To and From the Printed Page by Jess
Fragmentary Forms: A New History of Collage by Freya Gowrley
Collage by Women: 50 Essential Contemporary Artists by Rebeka Elizegi and Blanca Ortiga
Cutting Edges: Contemporary Collage published by Gestalten
Collage: Assembling Contemporary Art edited by Anthony Downey
Robert Motherwell: Early Collages by Robert Motherwell, Susan Davidson, Megan Fontanella, Brandon Taylor, Jeffrey Warda
Find my guest, Jennifer Coates, online:
See her recent exhibition "Aniline Sky" at 1053 Gallery
Her instagram: @jennifercoates666
Thank you, Jennifer! Thank you, Peps Listeners!
All music by Soundstripe
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