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Tyrrell Winston
Tyrrell Winston is well known for his basketball wall sculptures, which explore embedded history, the idea that an object's past can become abstracted long after we've moved on. The Whiteout series turns that instinct inward: found magazines obscured rather than cut, where a single headline or image carries the weight. His first body of work that's really about him.
In the Words of the Artist
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
Collage is many things to me. At the root, it's taking images, text, and found material and giving them a new context. It is really the ground floor for where a lot of my work comes from, my first art pieces were derivative of Dadaism and then Dash Snow -- weathered paper, found newspaper -- absurd statements and shocking imagery. But I realized that I was trying to say too much with these works, instead of the works speaking for themselves.
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
For me, giving something that is recognizable, a new context, is one of the most exhilarating parts of being an artist. It's taking something that I would typically avoid or overlook and giving it a resurrected life. This resurrection is a conceptual framework that moves across all bodies of my work (i.e., whiteout magazine pieces, basketball skewers, punishment (autograph) paintings, etc.), but the marks, what is left or left behind, are often intuition mixed with chance and confidence in my ability to communicate a desired message.
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
I didn’t think I was adding anything to the language of collage. So I wanted to make paintings/conceptual works that appeared to be collages. They are, and they aren’t. I wanted to remove the image or sometimes the text. And focus on one primary element.
A lot of it is left to chance. Which I greatly enjoy. It’s partly calculated, but I let the materials do most of the work. The most important part of each piece is the text.
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
This is the first body of work that is really about me. A lot of these are self-portraits. Seeing myself in the headlines/as a star. The text that I select are beliefs or myths I have about myself. And I hope other people have about themselves!
The source material is found/used, so it has that element of embedded history (the same way a used basketball or a used cigarette does) that carries through the other bodies of my work. And if the magazine work is image-based, it might not be directly about me but rather something that I find culturally relevant at this time, and the image is more powerful than the headline.
Gesso on magazine with frame
14 x 11 3/8 in.
About the Artist
Tyrrell Winston (b. 1985, Arizona) is a contemporary American artist whose practice centers on collecting, organizing, and reconfiguring discarded and forgotten objects found on the streets of New York City. Best known for his assemblages of found basketballs—manipulated into sculptural wall compositions—his work explores "embedded history," the idea that the objects we discard carry a permanent, narrative energy long after we've moved on.
His practice spans sculpture, painting, collage, and mixed-media works, drawing on themes of memory, nostalgia, resurrection, and sports culture to examine the parallels between hope and hopelessness, vitality and recklessness. Winston has exhibited internationally across cities including Tokyo, Seoul, Paris, Brussels, and Athens, and in 2022 had his first museum solo exhibition at the Cranbrook Art Museum in Detroit.
Tyrrell Winston had a show open last week at Library Street Collective in Detroit titled Brotox — his first solo there since 2022. The exhibition introduces Studio Ads, a series of photorealistic oil paintings pulling from iconic sports moments: the Malice at the Palace brawl, Mickey Mantle's 1952 Topps rookie card, Allen Iverson's "practice" press conference. Brotox is up from May 30, 2026 — July 29, 2026.
For Your Viewing Pleasure
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
ANN WEATHERSBY lives and works in New York City. She received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and an MFA from Yale University.
NIALL MCCLELLAND (b. 1980) is a Toronto-based artist whose practice draws on DIY punk aesthetics and graphic design, using photocopy toner, ink cartridges, and folded paper to make abstractions that prioritize chance and process. Represented by Clint Roenisch Gallery.
JACOB PAYNE BARBER, (b. 1988), known professionally as Maltdisney, is a New York-based visual artist whose work draws from the layered, fluid world of internet culture. His practice reflects the pace and density of the digital environment, where diverse visual languages and references coexist in a constant stream.
JONATHAN MONK transforms receipts into miniature canvases, doodling re-creations of contemporary art masterpieces on his own meal tabs. Pairing Sol LeWitt geometrics with Chinese takeout typography and Warhol cats with mushroom pizza orders.
POLINA OSIPOVA is an artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores Indigenous Chuvash legends and myths at the junction of craft and the archaeology of collective memory. Drawing on her female ancestors' expertise, she works with textiles and archival family photos to trace threads between past and future, weaving digital and analogue.
Out and About
What to watch, read, and experience, as curated by the Collé team.
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Dionne Lee: Currents
Dionne Lee works across photography, video, and collage to examine histories of land, power, and Black identity in the American landscape. A Guggenheim Fellow with works at the Whitney and MoMA, Lee uses darkroom techniques and graphite inscriptions to address dispossession and resilience. Currents, her first monograph, gathers over a decade of work.
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Charlie Goering: Collages at Aisle Gallery, Cincinnati
Aisle Gallery presents an exhibition of recent collages by Goering. His collages, meticulously logged and counted, supplants a drawing practice. The works are a recitation of form, composition, and intuitive decision making. Quotidian images, art history, antiquated tech, and cut paper make up the entanglements of these works of paper.
▼ LISTEN
Sparrows Sing While Leaves Decay by Trevor Sloan
The Toronto-based songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and collage artist returns with a new album that drifts between mellow folk-pop and cinematic mood music, evoking a lost 1970s soundtrack. Influenced by Donovan and Piero Piccioni yet often compared to Sufjan Stevens, he has released seven albums under his own name (previously as Phono d'enfant).
