As an admirerer of his works I strongly recommend all the NY-ers to visit the exhibition “Do the Collage”, a selection of Robert Pollard’s (ex-Guided By Voices) collage works at Studio Dante (December 9-10). “Do the Collage” features over 50 of Pollard’s renderings in cut-outs and glue that date from 1990 through 2007.
“Using elements from 1950’s -70’s era magazines, pamphlets and obscure pictoral paperbacks as his primary tools, he portrays allegorical personas and hallucinogenic-type environments to create small, almost random synapses of unmistakable compositions with sardonic titles, each serving as a story unto itself. The Artist’s media utilizes the archetypes of the working class, becoming pawn deities and martyrs found within the strata of near fantasy religion and the collective unconscious. Most of these works were used as album art for Pollard’s own music releases throughout the same time period.” (According to the website of Studio Dante.)
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