Come Together: Assemblage and Collage from the Collection

Organized to provide a deeper context for the “Sew What” exhibition, this installation features examples of drawing, painting and sculpture that are the result of gathering various materials and combining them in distinct ways. Collage and assemblage are construction practices that go back hundreds of years but are associated with the 20th-century activities of artists including Pablo Picasso, Jean Dubuffet, Joseph Cornell, Hannah Höch, Louise Nevelson and Robert Rauschenberg, to name a few.

“Come Together” features work by artists in the UK Art Museum’s permanent collection who are part of this tradition, including Raymond Barnhart, William Bayer, Bruce Burris, Christo, Robert Morgan, Robert Motherwell, Judith Page, Antoni Tapies and others.

Image: Bruce Burris, toxifying appylachia jeezus warshedtheseft 800 years ago, 2018, acrylic, pencil, gouache, marker, pen, and collaged elements on paper. Collection of the UK Art Museum, gift of the family of the artist, Bruce Burris.