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OPINION assemblage by Susan Tibbles

Presented by Riverside Art Museum at Riverside Art Museum

May 4-July 2, 2006

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The Riverside Art Museum is privileged to be able to present the majority of the collection of Tibbles’ L.A. Times Opinion-section assemblages in the Bobbie Powell Gallery. This exhibition is scheduled to travel on to the Laband Art Gallery, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles and then to the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, California. The art of assemblage has been around for a century or more. In that time, many of its practitioners, from the Futurists and Dadaists before and during World War I to the Beat and Pop-related artists working during the Vietnam conflict, have used assemblage to make political statements. Susan Tibbles is an assemblagist with a difference. She doesn’t make political statements with her constructions of found and acquired objects; she makes statements about politics. For the last six years, Tibbles has produced a series of assemblages designed to appear – in two-dimensional photographic reproduction – on the Opinion-Editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times. Designed to appear with specific articles, the artworks do not function like political cartoons. They do not express the artist’s opinion about current issues. Rather, they function like illustrations or even illuminations, giving concise visual form to the concepts put forth in the articles they accompany. Self-taught, Tibbles, an accomplished artist with an active career in southern California, caught the eye of Wes Bausmith, art director for the L.A. Times Opinion section. It was the fall of 2000, and Bausmith wanted Tibbles to formulate an image that would address the presidential race between Al Gore and George Bush. Since then, Tibbles has produced some 133 assemblages for the Times. And, as it happens, all these artworks have been kept together as an integral collection. The body of work, in the private collection of Geoffrey Le Plastrier, documents both the arc of recent political history and the growth of Tibbles as an artful commentator on politics through fine art. The Riverside Art Museum, located in downtown Riverside, occupies a beautiful historic building designed and built by Hearst Castle architect Julia Morgan. The Mission of the Riverside Art Museum is to serve the various communities and diverse populations of the Inland Empire by providing visual art of the finest quality.

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