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collage collage paper (fiber product)
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Gift of Jerald Melberg
Concord native Rick Horton worked in a wide range of artistic disciplines, including painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and collage throughout a career tragically cut short when he died of AIDS at age 35. These two untitled collages are reflective of his typically abstract compositions. In one, on loan to the museum, fragments of French text swirl around the form of a rabbit, which peers out from behind a white rectangular form. While on one hand, the subtle composition suggests a kind of cave or shelter for the rabbit, on the other it could almost be ready simply as a fragment of a wall in Paris, upon which many advertisements and fliers have been posted and removed over time. The other collage, in the museum’s collection, was also likely created in Paris. It too is abstract, although the text, which appears to be taken from a French-English dictionary, might refer to the process of learning another language and familiarizing oneself with a new place. It, too, suggests a sense of time, of things weathered and aged, wrinkled and torn.
Accession Number: 2010.47.2
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