Robert Rauschenberg

'Canyon', 1959

I have actually seen this piece several times in D.C.

Lisa Mei Ling Fong

I really dig how this woman's collection looks very succinct. You can tell that it was her hand making all of her pieces.

"Hiroshima
Introversion Box #59
Mushroom Cloud photo from the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 64 paper cranes, A-Bomb Dome memorial coin, jar, "clock" depicting 8:15 (am - August 6, 1945), wood leaf, plate and bone, memorial coin information, stamp block, metal ring, leaf from Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, key, jizo statue. Collages: (background) "Guide to A-Bomb Buildings and Trees". Border Collages: (bottom) "The Plain of Rubble" - photographed from a watchtower of the Hiroshima Prefectural Commerce Association - October 5, 1945. (left and right) Hiroshima map. (top) Photographs of Victims from North Tenjin-machi and Gravestone Marking the Death of an Entire Extended Family. All photos courtesy of "The Spirit of Hiroshima - an Introduction to the Atomic Bomb Tragedy by the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
16.75"x20.75"x2.75"
March 14, 2006, 12:27am
From the Collection of the Artist"

Betye Saar

[African-American Assemblage Artist, born in 1926]
I like this as an example of use of a window but i would not copy this idea directly.

Wallace Berman

This is one of the artists that I saw work from at the VMFA. I can not post the piece that i saw, but this is an example of a similar work.

Jean Dubuffet

Jardin de Bibi Trompette (Bibi Trompette's Garden), 1955
The Stephen Hahn Family Collection (Partial and Promised Gift)

"A what? An assemblage is a three-dimensional artistic composition made of miscellaneous objects or found materials.

The French artist Jean Dubuffet first used the term assemblage to describe a method of turning found objects into three-dimensional structures.

The debate about what is a collage versus an assemblage also began at that time. Dubuffet referred to his butterfly works as assemblages, though art historians seem to prefer the term collage"

Alex CF

AlexCF: "Hello, my name is Alex. I call my work “cryptozoological pseudoscientific art”, which is a longwinded way of describing what i do, but it is pretty specific. I make items, artifacts and specimens from a past that never happened – the remains of extinct species, scientific discoveries, nefarious characters from ancient continents, relics of mysterious cultures – the things you wish you could find in your grandparents attic, or a secret room in an abandoned house. I have created a fictitious history in which certain rich collectors have spent their lives exploring and discovering, and it is my job to present these items to the public. Each piece has a story, and in time all will connect, and I will release a collected monograph of these items and the tale of their discovery. I take influence from maddening horror, Victorian aesthetic, sci-fi pulp and Darwinian biology."

Devendra Banhart

Music! it helps me get through. I am currently without an mp3 player and seriously in need. But just to put an example of what I am probably listening to in the studio, let me introduce my lil friend Devendra Banhart. He is wonderful and if you havent heard his music; try it. One of my faves? "Angelika" of course.