LA vs NY: Art by Frances Elson

Frances Elson Los Angeles, CA From my birth in 1944 in Kazakhstan, the child of holocaust survivors, followed by a two year stay in a displaced persons camp in Germany, then moving to Canada where I spent my childhood, I learned the lessons of survival and perseverance early and well. Science and Mathematics seemed the […]

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Collage: Past, Present and Future

Collage: Past, Present and Future A review of Over, Under, Next: Experiments in Mixed Media, 1913- Present April 18th to September 8th, 2013 Hirshhorn Museum by Sarah Kate Jorgensen The Hirshhorn’s collage, found object, and assemblage show– Over ,Under, Next- marks the 100th  anniversary of collage. Beginning with Pablo Picasso’s and Georges Braque’s 1912 paper […]

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