... beginning in the mid 1940s that Louise Nevelson evolved her sculptural wood collages, assembled from found scraps, including parts of furniture, pieces of wooden crates or barrels, and architectural remnants like stair railings or mouldings. Generally rectangular, very large, and painted black, they resemble gigantic paintings. Much wood collage art is considerably smaller in scale, framed and hung like a painting. It usually features pieces of wood, wood shavings and scraps, assembled on an empty canvas (if there is painting involved), or on a wooden board. Such framed, picture-like, wood-relief collages offer the artist an opportunity to explore the qualities of depth, natural color, and textural variety inherent in the material, while drawing on and taking advantage of the language, conventions, and historical resonances that arise from the tradition of creating pictures to hang on walls. The technique of wood collage is also sometimes combined with painting and other media ...

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