Mr. Bock hammers, stitches and glues together intricate, installation-size assemblages from found materials.
At Gibson there are his seminal assemblages from the 1980's (Johnson).
The shop creates assemblages from customers' choices at prices ranging from $50 to $100.
"Rafael Ferrer Exhibition Contrabandodo," paintings, sculpture and assemblages from the mid-1970s to 2011. mid-1970s to 2011
Assemblages from the 70s featuring wire mesh, electrical supplies and paint-slathered books embedded in canvas mimic Robert Rauschenberg's "Combines".
A pelitic or calcareous rock will develop very different mineral assemblages from a metabasalt, yet the same facies names apply.
The retrospective concludes with a trilogy of room-sized assemblages from the new millennium, "The American Room," "Empire / Vampire, Who Kills Death," and "Ground Zero".
Now, Guild Hall in East Hampton is keeping up the momentum with "Rafael Ferrer: Contrabando," an exhibition of paintings, sculptures and assemblages from the 1970s to the present.
She makes colorful, junklike assemblages from disposable plastic forks and knives, Q-tips, old pieces of luggage, foil and plastic tubing, recalling the work of Sarah Sze, another young artist who concocts intricate sculptures from ordinary things.
The fossil assemblages from the Busidima Formation show a substantial species turnover.
Spore assemblages from six sedimentary cores are analysed and compared with the pollen data.
