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BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

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For Artist George Herms, All You Need is LOVE

September 28, 2014

Junk. At least, that’s what we call it. George Herms, however, marvels at trash heaps and paper scraps, blank canvases awaiting his transformative touch. For nearly 60 years, the Beat-generation artist has drawn from a hodgepodge of discarded, seemingly mundane objects to craft a myriad of collages and sculptures.