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Starting out as a self-taught collagist in the 1960’s, Irwin Kremen, at the time a professor of psychology at Duke University, later branched into painting and sculpture. The work in this show reaches back to the 1970’s, but much of it was done within the last few years.

The collages, exquisite arrangements of weathered paper or paperlike materials in subtle colors, stand out despite, or maybe because of, their small size and quiet presence. Most have no subject beyond their material content, like the elegant ”Waste Not, No. 6” (1999), a part-circle of worn brownish sandpaper that opens out at the top in a lively burst of gray matter from a wasp’s nest. Read More