{"id":5433,"date":"2016-08-26T16:43:32","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T20:43:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=5433"},"modified":"2017-03-22T12:40:03","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T16:40:03","slug":"maximalism-and-minimalism-in-collage-part-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/5433","title":{"rendered":"Maximalism and Minimalism in Collage, part 6"},"content":{"rendered":"

It would not be a mistake to put me in a category dedicated to \u201cmaximalism\u201d in collage \u2014 the practice of adding more visual elements to achieve a balanced effect, in contrast to restricting a composition to a minimum of ingredients. Not that long ago I discovered the work of two maximalists when I happened upon an old blog post<\/a> by fellow Kentucky collage artist Sharmon Davidson. I have never met the prolific Davidson, but it pleases me to find her concise survey of collage pioneers juxtaposed with examples of contemporary artists active in the medium. I have a high regard for collage artists who maintain a keen awareness of the history of mixed media. Her own work evokes for me the layerist tradition<\/a>, and I especially like many of her miniatures<\/a>. In addition to learning about Sharmon, her 2014 entry introduces me to Lance Letscher<\/a>, a maximalist\u2019s maximalist who also has been known to explore the spectrum\u2019s opposite side with a minimalist approach. The widely exhibited Letscher is formerly a sculptor.
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Sharmon Davidson<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nHer artwork emerges from the interplay of intention and intuition.<\/p>\n

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Lance Letcher<\/a><\/em><\/strong>
\nThe spatial density of his designs exemplify a \u201cmaximalist\u201d approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It would not be a mistake to put me in a category dedicated to \u201cmaximalism\u201d in collage \u2014 the practice of adding more visual elements to achieve a balanced effect, in contrast to restricting a composition to a minimum of ingredients. Not that long ago I discovered the work of two maximalists when I happened […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,13,22,213,85,54,78,212],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5433"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8782,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5433\/revisions\/8782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}