Bronze, marble, stainless steel . . . cardboard?

In fact, many of the most highly esteemed artists, like Robert Rauschenberg, Frank Gehry, Joan Brown, and Manuel Neri, have experimented with cardboard as an artistic material. Both relatively inexpensive and ubiquitous, cardboard affords artists the ability to work on a large-scale that might not be otherwise possible. This exhibition revealed ways that artists challenge the limits of cardboard by investigating topics ranging from formal concerns to social commentary and engineering.