FreedmanArt
by E.A. Carmean, Jr.
February 21, 2013
The exhibition entitled Painterly Pasted Pictures at the FreedmanArt Gallery brings together a group of collages that share the formal trait of "painterliness," either in part or whole. This stylistic characteristic, the opposite of crisp (cut) profiles and simple, balanced compositional layouts, is one not usually associated with the standard idea of the modern collage. But, "painterliness" is nonetheless an essential feature of many collages made by the Abstract Expressionists, including their works featured in this show.