Main and Atrium Galleries
About the Exhibition:
Intercut Realities explores collage as a method of combining disparate materials into a unified whole. Through both physical and digital collage techniques, augmented with layers of painting and drawing, the artworks in the exhibition fabricate narratives, challenge perspectives, and forge new visual connections. Featuring artists Benj Gleeksman, Alison Bachorik, Avery Hartranft, and Emily Tironi, the exhibition invites viewers into each of their personal tactile worlds of collage.
Benj Gleeksman pulls from American pop culture—old school rap, video games, skateboard graphics— creating humorous characters and scenes that echo cityscapes and industrial infrastructure. He layers text in his collages constructing relationships between image and text.
Alison Bachorik captures moments of human presence, manipulating and digitally collaging photographs to fabricate memories. Her work often verges on the absurd—an empty ski mask sitting in a pile of texture or a cigarette imbued with personality—devising humorous and unusual moments amongst recognizable objects.
Avery Hartranft explores their personal interior space, physically assembling with collage to create a metaphorical parallel to building a home. Their subtle mark-making is enacted with care as they render each element in both obscurity and clarity, suggesting passing of time and the colliding of moments in one space.
Emily Tironi uses her personal experience and knowledge as a disabled person to inform her practice. Using found books on disability as the base to her work, she collages, manipulates, and works on top of the pages. She juxtaposes these images with bright colors to challenge stereotypes around disability, opening up a conversation on the perspective of disability in our society and culture.
Gleeksman, Bachorik, Hartranft, and Tironi merge materials and media to reveal collage as an integral technique for conveying narrative, critique, and reconstruction.
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