At the show, chairs made of cardboard, including an inviting rocker and a functional recliner, accompany found and renewed object sculpture. The items on display are largely composed of discarded or otherwise unwanted materials. For notoriously penniless art students, preparing for this show presented a welcome chance to shop for art materials where they didn’t have to pay. Many of the materials given new life in the show were acquired from local transfer sites, recycling collection points, and personal junk collections.
Visitors to the gallery in the Wood Center will have a chance to witness a range of work. The Last Supper is eerily acted out by four Barbie dolls. Plastic bags are converted to items including a mask, a crane, a handbag, barnacles and a giant inflatable $. Wood is combined with scrap or excess metal, and even slumped glass in one instance, to create a variety of beautiful forms. Glass and compact discs are broken down and reassembled into beautiful studies of form. Electronics are converted to a sculpture of a ram and a convincing ray gun. In all instances, unwanted materials are given fresh and creative new life.
The show will be on display until Saturday, so make your way over to the Wood Center and see what UAF artists are capable of sustaining.
I thought the presentation was creative, some useful and humorous. I wish I would have been more informed about this show. I would have liked to have participated in it. The plastic bags that were blown up in a shape of a dollar sign was great and so was the magazine/metal scultpure.
ReplyDeleteSounds like fun - nice write up. I'll mark you down for extra credit.
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