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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Recycled Artists

The artist Gabriel Dishaw creates sculptures out of recycles materials and calls his projects "upcycled."
More about Gabriel can be found at http://gabrieldishaw.com/.

These shoe sculptures are made from recycles electronics.

Another interesting artist is Pat McGowan who created a piece of art out of traffic cones.

here is a link to the video http://vimeo.com/49156450

More information can be found about Pat on http://www.foggybottomassociation.com/arts/current-exhibit/artist-bios/ (half way down the page)

Monday, January 28, 2013

Let it Slide!

Running The Numbers / An American Portrait

http://www.chrisjordan.com/gallery/rtn/#unsinkable

Jordan digitally fabricates landscapes and familiar images to create uncomfortable realities.

Plastic Bottles looks like a vast arctic landscape that up close is a composition of two million plastic bottles - the number used in the United States every five minutes.

Barbie Dolls depicts 32,000 Barbies equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006

Skull With Cigarette 2007

Unsinkable 2013

EGG DROP #1

Fail !

Garbage.

A great resource for finding artists working with trash found materials is the San Francisco Dump (Recology) Artist in Residency Program. Here is a list of all the artists with links to their work: http://www.sunsetscavenger.com/AIR/artists.htm

One of my favorite artists, Lauren DiCioccio, did a residency there and created embroidered copies of what she found. She takes everyday found objects and brings them into attention by making them out of fabric and thread. I think her work is interesting and exciting.

Another artist I have found working with found objects/trash, is Jean Shin. Jean Shin also works with taking the everyday object and brings it into a new light.