The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College is presenting "Interference Patterns," the first survey exhibition of artist John Sparagana's work. The show, running from February 21 to June 28, 2026, features nearly 100 works that trace his unique collage practice, which involves meticulously manipulating magazine pages, comic books, and other mass media sources to reveal the vulnerability of images.
The exhibition positions Sparagana's work as a contemporary extension of the Pictures Generation, a group of artists championed by the museum's precursor in the 1970s. Curator Solveig Nelson connects his process of physically fatiguing and recombining media to a critical engagement with the post-9/11 political landscape, where images of disaster and revolution mixed with consumer advertising. The survey highlights his evolution from early altered magazine works to increasingly intricate, large-scale collages.