This past summer, while reading George Packer’s book The Unwinding, I thought of the text as a collage; character studies, journalism, and history all overlapping to tell the story of America’s unraveling. In fact, the expressive quality of collage across all manner of media, from literature and music to the visual arts, came to mind while viewing Rough Cut, an exhibition at Morgan Lehman Gallery that pairs artworks with the preliminary collages from which they are derived.
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