The floors are collaged with different patterns of linoleum, but the bathroom's O.K.
Fragments of other hybrid fantasy civilizations pop up on the third floor; the 2005 collage "Abu Simbel" drops the Afro-futurist musician Sun Ra and his spaceship into an ancient Egyptian site, while the large enameled paintings take their titles from Klee's drawing "Dance You Monster" and their abstract imagery from the backgrounds of Krazy Kat comics.
Another wall is a floor-to-ceiling collage, many of its images cut from magazines donated by friends.
(Doris Mirescu's set, with its floor-to-ceiling collage of magazine clippings and pop-culture-clogged barrage of television screens, seems designed to fill in some of those blanks).
In addition to being an artist, Mr. Sarmento also trained as an architect, and several paintings show his sensitivity to the built environment, with photographs of unnamed modern buildings, or outlines of floor plans, silkscreened or collaged on their surfaces.
This is particularly true on the second floor, where Richard Hawkins's collages, inspired by the diaries of Tatsumi Hijikata, who founded the Japanese performance art of Butoh, incorporate clippings of paintings by Klimt, de Kooning, Bacon and Picasso, whose contorted figures had an influence on Butoh.
Composed of a single row of speakers spanning the length of the floor, the audioscape was a collage of distorted street noise.
Even the backgrounds, at first glance seemingly one-dimensional, are tricky with floor sweepings and bits of collage that give lie to the notion that he is simply a portraitist who cared only about the figure.
The other thing I noticed was that I am surrounded almost entirely by objects I've made myself: the suspended papier-mache star; the painting above my head; the bits of collage lying on the floor waiting for a home.
Complementing these on the second floor, Linda Goodman has classy old-fashioned collages that are inspired by Italian newspapers.
