An adjoining display of 40 small collages from 1951 shows Mr. Kelly laying out some of the stringent abstract vocabulary that he has mined ever since.
In this solo show he gives us different again: 60 or so small collages.
In his recent series of small collages, the tourist has checked his cultural baggage.
Here, in a group of altered paintings, framed assemblages, and small collages, Prince returns to two frequent subjects, cowboys and nurses.
Those modified beauty ads are missing, for example, with the exception of two small collages ("Bouffant Pride" from 2003 and "Skinatural" from 1997).
He began making small collages using Arabic calligraphy 10 years ago, during a listless period of poet's block, and friends suggested he exhibit them.
Supporting himself as a house painter, moving-company laborer and health aide to the elderly, he began to make small collages relating to his graphic designs.
Many of these pictures are incorporated into small collages of snapshots, contact prints, and scraps of ephemera, which tend to radiate out from a central portrait.
Created while Rauschenberg and Cy Twombly, then romantically linked, were traveling together in 1952 and 1953 to Rome and then North Africa, they are small collages that combine papers and fabric, engravings and tissue paper.
Bough Down is a collection of prose poems interspersed with small collages, in which Green charts her "passage through grief", said small US publisher Siglo Press, which released the book earlier this spring.
