Collagists brings together Lucas Blalock, Mike Cloud, Ada Friedman, and Rose Wylie around collage as generative strategy across photography, painting, and sculpture. Friedman's large-scale hangings layer paint, paper, fabric, and annotation into glyph-like witnesses to mysterious making; Blalock's studio photograph of a covered piano is shattered by coarsely visible digital clone stamps; Wylie extends paper where she runs out of space and covers what doesn't feel right, her art historical awareness — Moore, González, Matisse — absorbed into something entirely her own; Cloud's stuffed canvases stitch children's clothes and comic characters into bulging, paint-laden forms that corrupt mass-produced optimism. Collage here is understood not as paper and scissors but as a tool of material, visual, and conceptual multiplicity.
