The artworks in “Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage” are dense, layered and intricate. But what’s immediately striking about many of the pieces is their size. This is a big show — filling galleries on three levels of the Phillips Collection — of big art.
Although slimmed slightly from its original incarnation at Nashville’s Frist Art Museum, “Multiplicity” is a sweeping overview of recent Black American collages. It includes work by 49 artists, most in midcareer. The most venerable participant, Howardena Pindell, was born in 1943; the youngest, Kahlil Robert Irving, in 1992.
