Exhibitions at 500 12th St. -- Oakland Museum of California

Through June 13, 2008
Gathering: assemblage, collage, and in-between
500 12th Street, lobby.
Oakland, CA 94607
Viewing Hours: Monday - Friday 7am - 7pm.
This exhibit is a collaboration between the Oakland Museum of California and Shorenstein Realty Services.
Open and free to the public. BART, AC Transit and Wheelchair accessible.

Presented by the Oakland Museum of California Professional Services division

Professional Services Exhibition Archive

PDF of Gathering

The term collage comes from the French coller meaning “to paste”. As a work of art, a collage is created out of two-dimensional materials such as paper or cloth glued to a surface to form a composition. The closely related practice of assemblage includes the use of three-dimensional materials and the resultant artworks are generally more sculptural than works that are strictly collage based.
This exhibition features four Bay Area artists using varying degrees of both techniques.

Mary V. Marsh uses discarded library file cards and old book covers layered with small figurative paintings. The intimate scale of each piece invites the viewer to engage with the work as one would with a favorite story.

Livia Stein’s drawings and monotypes are derived from her interest in pattern, form and color. These works on paper are the source of her collages – they record her changing interests, repeating and reinterpreting them as she works.

Lisa Kokin uses thread rather then glue to bind together materials as diverse as buttons and photographs. Pieced together like a quilt or sewn into a net, she transforms her unknown subjects into characters of her own creation.

Barbara Kronlins layers bold organic shapes over small pieces of paper ephemera intricately punched, cut and glued. Her work is formed by a dense stratum of color and texture – intensely detailed without being chaotic.

The four artists in Gathering have made artwork with an astounding variety of found materials – old letters, books, thread, photographs, buttons and even coffee. In each case, the source of the materials adds greater meaning to the work beyond aesthetics.

Carin Adams
Museum Curatorial Specialist

Images-Details from left, Mary V. Marsh, Mitosis, 2006, coffee, ink, gouche on paper book cover, Livia Stein, Little Bird 2007, monoprint with handiwork; Lisa Kokin, Origin of the Family Private Property and the State, 2001, found photos and thread; Barbara Kronlins, At Swim 2006, mixed media on paper;


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