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Tony Berlant- Rio, 1997

 

 

Tony Berlant- Pangaea, 1997

 

Rio, 1997, 61 x 48 inches
Found metal collage
Pangaea # 7, 1997, 45 x 42 inches
Collaged found metal and brads on wood

Tony Berlant has been creating his vivid metal collages since the early 1960s. Having been called "a painter who works with metal (and/or) a sculptor who creates with color, mark, and line. . .", Berlant combines a lyrical intensity with a fascination of surface. Metal TV trays, cookie tins, wastebaskets, etc., are cut up and transformed by Berlant into a complex palette from which color and pattern are selected as he "paints" his visions. Using steel brads to hold down the metal fragments, Berlant juxtaposes figuration with abstraction in quilt- like patterned compositions.

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