Artist Tony Berlant has died at 85, reports the Los Angeles Times . L.A. Louver, his longtime gallery, confirmed the death.

Berlant, who was associated with the West Coast Pop art movement of the 1960s, was best known for large-scale collages made of shards of printed metal and thousands of nails. He often worked with vintage metal signs and occasionally added found objects to his pieces. In recent years, he had begun printing personal photographs onto the collages’ metal grounds, adding an autobiographical dimension to the works.

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Berlant was born in New York City in 1941 and moved with his family to LA when he was five. After graduating from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1961, he went on earn master’s degrees in painting and sculpture in 1962 and 1963.…