His basic visual material is a street language of rap lyrics, graffiti tags and images of boomboxes, seen in drawings as exquisite as illuminated gospel pages, and in an assemblage of personal items that looks random but is as purposefully arranged as an altar.
By way of evidence to support my griping, I present here a short and random assemblage of consumer items whose prices have made my jaw drop and my eyes pop in recent days.
His early assemblages were of items with logical connections, like the pins, cloth and string in "Composition" (1935).
She creates cool assemblages of luxury items and pound-store tat.
During the 1930s Oppenheim created assemblages of everyday items, many of which evoked eroticism, such as My Nurse (1936), a pair of women's high-heeled shoes trussed together like a game fowl, with paper frills (crowns) on the heels, and placed sole-side up on a platter.
It seemed a sort of Pointillist, inductive assemblage, some of the items political and others personal, including an assortment of J.F.K.'s neckties and pieces of the scrimshaw that brought forth a whole book.
It is the most comprehensive assemblage of Picassos ever shown here, 328 items-139 paintings, 128 drawings & watercolors, 13 collages, & 48 pieces of sculpture-from 73 private & 22 public collections.
The sprawling assemblage of charismatic thingamabobs, jury-rigged from buckets, mittens, toothpaste, furniture, eggshells and bricks (to name just a few items) actually has the carefully orchestrated chaos of a Rube Goldberg machine.
Perched on steel pins, this assemblage of flotsam suggests an archeologic or forensic exhibition and invites the viewer to step forward and scrutinize each item.
