Elliott Hundley, born in 1975 in Greensboro, North Carolina, is now a mid-career artist. He loves the movie Mad Max because “it’s about bricolage and repurposing.” He wants to recognize the past without longing for it. “Nostalgia is intrinsically conservative because it honors what is known rather than what is unknown,” Hundley said in 2023. “And I am too intellectually invested in possibility to be nostalgic.” And so he makes collages that read from a distance like pure chaos and up close like accretions of tiny images that share the canvas with stickpins, paper, feathers, goat hooves, and spangles. He even uses materials shredded by his pet bird, Echo, an African grey parrot. Hundley’s mixed-media collages—sometimes compared to the Combines of Robert Rauschenberg—are spectacular. —Laura Jacobs