Modern Collage

Using skills of cutting, ripping, pasting, overlaying multiple materials together, some artists have began examining and dissecting objects with real life in many different ways. “Collage is the cut, the tear, the rupture and the overlay of our contemporary culture. It is the hybrid language of urbanity – remixed, re-contextualized, and wholly built from the fragments of daily life.” Pavel Zoubok

Lance Letscher – The pull Rowards Collage

Lance Letscher, one famous collage artist who used materials that he discovered in dumpsters, half-price books and other discarded objects lying around where teared and placed together to finalise one final collage piece to his work. These pieces were essemballed together by gluing, pressing and recutting parts without glue, testing and analysing in many different angles and positions until he was convinced and satisfied with his final decision.

Eye Wide Open on Lance Letscher: With two major solo shows and a new  documentary about him, the Austin collage artist readies to be seen in a  new way - Arts -
Lance Letscher at Conduit Gallery by Todd Camplin | moderndallas

bibliography

https://magazine.artland.com/5-contemporary-collage-artists/

https://moderndallas.net/lance-letscher-at-conduit-gallery/#.YgJyk-7P2qA

https://www.austinchronicle.com/arts/2017-03-03/eye-wide-open-on-lance-letscher/

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