1980 Bill Schiffer Collage "Inner Space"

Item Details

Paper

A collage on construction paper by well-listed contemporary artist Bill Schiffer. This collage depicts long, bending, curling forms in neon pink, green, orange, and yellow against a black background. The collage is signed, titled, and dated 1980 in graphite along the bottom

Born in New York, Bill Schiffer rose to prominence as a painter and sculptor in the early 1980s. Though he still works in many two dimensional and three dimensional art mediums, Schiffer is most well known for his unique handcrafted jewelry, which he started designing after a foray experimenting with wearable art in the fashion scene. Bill Schiffer’s art and jewelry has been shown in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, as well as major museums in Italy, Japan, Germany and the United States. His work has been featured in publications including Vogue, Elle, Bazaar, Women’s Wear Daily, Seventeen and Cosmopolitan.

Condition

- wear to edges of ground; some pieces sticking off of the edges of the paper; some pieces peeling back from the ground; residue at bottom left corner; residue throughout verso of ground.

Dimensions

- measures flat ground.

Item #

18NYC017-139