Julia Blaut
Julia Blaut is Senior Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. A graduate of Smith College, the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and the Whitney Independent Study Program, Blaut has curated, taught, and published in the field of postwar American art. She was formerly Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where she worked on Rauschenberg's late career retrospective and directly with the artist and his studio.
In his New Yorker profile of the artist, Daniel Zalewski aptly describes Marclay as “the most exciting collagist since Robert Rauschenberg.” In his drawings and Combines begun in the mid-1950s, Rauschenberg mined his surroundings for ready-made images and objects, transforming them into art and synthesizing them with handmade gestures. While Marclay instead uses preexisting film footage and the construct of time, he similarly made something new through his recombination of chosen fragments.
