Jurors Carlos Hernandez, Shanna Strauss, and Chadwick Tolley selected work from over 700 entries to craft a vibrant and wide-ranging exhibition that explores the act of layering. While there are some traditional prints in the exhibition that use collaging to craft their imagery, the work has a lot of material exploration, including fabric, currency, thread, plant matter, stamps, lotto tickets, gum wrappers, and dictionary pages. These media are expertly collaged through methods such as printing, sewing, gluing, and screwing. Superimposed exemplifies how practices can converge and be enhanced by the art of collage.
About the artist
Liam Thomas
I use and juxtapose isolated historical images to develop an alternate consideration of mass-media image construction and dissemination. My work, in both process and summation, considers history as a series of superimpositions and overlays. I believe that my approach to collage functions as a type of interactive media archeology wherein the process of searching for and combining these isolated historical images itself helps to develop a less linear understanding of image-making history.
https://www.liamathomas.org/analogcollages
https://www.liamathomas.org/analogcollages
