Paradox of Process: Collage and Assemblage in the Permanent Collection

Installed in groups throughout MOCA’s Temporary Contemporary, the thirty artworks in Paradox of Process: Collage and Assemblage in the Permanent Collection represented key examples of Western collage and assemblage art from the 1950s to the 1980s. Artists on view included such pioneers of American assemblage as Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell, Bruce Conner, and Edward Kienholz; more contemporary practitioners, including Tony Berlant, Chris Burden, Jill Giegerich, David Ireland, Alexis Smith, Christian Boltanski, and Tomasz Osinski, were described as expanding the mechanisms of collage and assemblage into broader artistic fields.

Paradox of Process was organized by Elizabeth A. T. Smith, Curator, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The Temporary Contemporary is the original name of The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.