| CHARLES SPURRIER |
Charles Spurrier, who currently lives and works in New York City, earned a B.F.A. from the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1983 and an M.F.A. from Yale University in 1985. He is the recipient of The Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant, and has exhibited his work at the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, and the Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. His work is included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others.
Spurrier uses a variety of non-traditional materials, including tape, mirror shards, plastic beads and faux wood-grain contact paper, to create intricately patterned non-objective collages and assemblages. By working with materials typically considered crass or banal, Spurrier intentionally questions the notion of “kitsch” with his unexpectedly elegant, often poetic works.
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