Up: [[Artists and Art Movements]] Related: [[Accept Reality]] Created: 2023-10-19 Jess Collins was born Burgess Collins in 1923. He worked on the Manhattan Project. Later he went to study painting at the San Francisco Art Institute. He dropped his last name, in art circles went only by the name Jess. He married poet Robert Duncan. Duncan once referred to Jess’s art as *not impression, not expression, but an involvement in what is.* I like this. Perhaps it’s a little way to [[accept reality]] while still maneuvering it into new forms that appeal to me. [[Collage is Another Way of Making Connections]]. He called his collages ‘paste-ups’. Some of them took years to make because they require not just cutting and pasting, but noticing. ![[Midday Forfit by Collage artist Jess.webp]] This piece is called Midday Forfit: Feignting Spell II, 1971. It’s a paste-up of magazine pages, jigsaw puzzle pieces, tapestry, lithographic mural, wood, and straight pin. It measures 50x70x 1 ¾ inches. Its in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. ![[The Unentitled Graces by collage artist Jess.webp]] And this piece is called The Unentitled Graces, 1978. It measures 39x59 inches and is in the Buffalo AKG art museum.