Known best for his assemblage art, David McManaway is well-known and liked among Dallas-based artists of his generation. Born in Chicago, McManaway would travel to Fayetteville, Arkansas for study before arriving in Dallas.
2020 Exhibition at the Grace Museum
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[…] The medium has been used throughout the 20th century. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque used elements of collage and found objects in their works, and in the 1950s and 1960s artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns were pivotal in the evolution of assemblage. Louise Nevelson used it as a way to build architectural grandeur from the mundane and Joseph Cornell created intricate shadow boxes filled with found objects, creating dreamlike and poetic compositions. On these pages, we’ve also covered the work of the late David McManaway. […]
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