assemblagist

American  

[uh-sem-bluh-jist, as-ahm-blah-zhist] / əˈsɛm blə dʒɪst, ˌæs ɑmˈblɑ ʒɪst /

noun

1. an artist who produces works of art using the techniques of assemblage.

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Etymology

Origin of assemblagist

First recorded in 1960–65; assemblage + -ist

Example Sentences

And my weekly Datebook is back, with a key survey of the late L.A. assemblagist John T. Riddle Jr. at Craft Contemporary.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2019

Paintings that explore concepts of love, plus an overdue survey of work by a key L.A. assemblagist.

From Los Angeles Times • May 30, 2019

Well, Saar was, for a time, married to key Los Angeles assemblagist Betye Saar in the 1950s and ’60s.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2018

Rauschenberg has been called a neo-Dadaist, a belated abstract expressionist, a junk assemblagist, a pop artist, a hyper-cubist, even an anti-artist and, of course, a nut.

From Time Magazine Archive

Belgium's Vic Gentils, 46, another assemblagist in the Modern's show, evokes nostalgia by limiting his palette to destroyed pianos.

From Time Magazine Archive