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Richard Meier is best known as an architect, but for decades now he has made collages—small, playful concoctions of visual material ranging from scraps of newspaper to magazine images, postcards, even crushed cans and other consumer detritus found around the house and office. They are his private passion, produced for himself, for his own intellectual stimulation and amusement. Nudity is prevalent, so are references to Picasso and American popular culture.

Not too long ago, in conversation, Mr. Meier mentioned to Isabelle Bscher from Galerie Gmurzynska in Zurich that he made collages and she thought, well, that sounds very interesting. So, Isabelle, her mother, Krystyna Gmurzynska, and Mathias Rastorfer, from the gallery, visited the architect in his New York apartment, saw and loved the collages and determined that they should be more widely known....Continue Reading

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