Installation view of Yashua Klos, The Face On Mars, 2009, paper construction of woodblock prints on archival paper mounted on unstretched canvas, in Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, 2023, Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN. Photo: John Schweikert.
Work by gallery artists Yashua Klos, Wardell Milan, and Kara Walker are featured in the group presentation Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, on view September 15 through December 31, 2023, at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville.
Multiplicity marks the first major exhibition devoted to the subject and practice of collage, exploring the medium's transformative potential in reflecting the breadth and complexity of Black identity. Featuring over 80 major works from an intergenerational group of 52 living artists, Multiplicity considers the varying methods through which collage is employed and how the technique suggests diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. By assembling pieces of paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives despite our fragmented society.
Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage is accompanied by a catalogue with scholarly essays and will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Phillips Collection. To learn more about this exhibition, click here.