Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
Stephen Aldrich
(American, born 1947)
All the World's a Stage, 2008
Stephen Aldrich, All the World's a Stage, 2008, collage of steel engravings. 26 x 34 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
Aldrich cuts Victorian-era woodcuts and steel engravings from a variety of books. His contoured cuts are rhymed and repeated with the imagery to create a pattern unique to each composition, alluding to his personal history of creating musical scores