Richard Meier: Collages

December 10, 2012 /

Richard Meier's collages complement his architecture. Unlike his architectural drawings, they are nonrepresentational; like these drawings, they record process. Like his architecture itself, they study relationships in space and seek difficult reconciliations of the opposed conditions of "found" discord and ideal order.

"A single collage is not begun and finished by itself," says Meier. "On the contrary, works in various stages of evolution are left in notebooks and on the shelves of my studio, left sometimes for months or even years to await their own period of development. A collage is often the result of many revisions. Each must be seen as an element in my total work; they are, for me, an adjunct and a passion related to my life as an architect."

"Meier has an eye, and a mind to use it. He doesn't create all those collages at night at home for nothing. The collage making is his midnight boxing ring. It keeps the hand and the eye trained."
John Hedjuk