A black woman with a short natural afro hairstyle, wearing a denim jacket, looking at her smartphone against a colorful geometric and abstract background with art pieces including a globe, a flower, and various shapes.
A young woman with dark skin and natural afro hair wearing a denim jacket, looking at her smartphone, against a vibrant colorful abstract background with geometric shapes, a globe, and a flower.

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Rip! Tear! Collage as Critique
Exhibitions Vicki Minor Exhibitions Vicki Minor

Rip! Tear! Collage as Critique

In a time when our nation—and the social fabric of the District—is experiencing deep division, artists are turning to collage as a democratic strategy to give platform to stories of rupture, repair, and reassembly. Rip! Tear! Collage as Critique calls on 23 DC-based artists who use collage as a conceptual approach to reconciling the fractured, fast-paced, and often contradictory stories and symbols of American history and modern life. The collected works stray from conventional approaches to paper collage, employing methods such as assemblage, quilting, bricolage, video, and photomontage that knowingly upset the boundaries of the genre.

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