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A specific subgenre of found objects is known as trash art or junk art. [19] These works primarily comprise components that have been discarded. Often they come quite literally from the trash. One example of trash art is trashion, fashion made from trash. Marina DeBris takes trash from the beach and creates dresses, vests, and other clothes ...
Robert W. Mallary (December 2, 1917 – February 10, 1997) was an American abstract expressionist sculptor and pioneer in computer art. In the 1950s and 1960s, he was renowned for his Neo-Dada or "junk art" sculpture, created from found materials and urban detritus, pieced together with hardened liquid plastics and resins.
In 1997, Sewell showed in "Hello Again!", a recycled art focused show which opened at the Oakland Museum [9] and travelled throughout North America. The show, curated by Susan Subtle , featured Sewell alongside other artists Mildred Howard , Mark Bulwinkle , Clayton Bailey , Claire Graham, Jan Yager , Remi Rubel, Pippa Garner , and others.
Upcycle Art or sometimes known as Recycled Art or Recycl’Art is the transformation of waste or used materials and objects into art pieces. [10] The tradition of reusing found objects (objet trouvé) in mainstream art came of age sporadically through the 20th century, although it has long been a means of production in folk art.
Two years earlier, the Harithases met Larry Fuente, one of the Bay Area's premier "glue artists," a counterculture junk art movement in which small found objects were used to decorate larger ones. In Ancient Roots/New Visions , a show at The University of Houston's Blaffer Gallery , Fuente was represented by a toilet decorated with hundreds of ...
In the early 1990s, while working as the art director for In Pittsburgh Newsweekly, he co-founded the Industrial Arts Co-op. The activist collective experimented with trash or junk art, a subset of found object art made from objects and materials that have been thrown away. The group broke into abandoned buildings, mostly steel mills, where ...
On a special episode (first released on January 2, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: For centuries, Native American art has been viewed through the lens of collectors, art historians, and tourists ...
This is a chronological list of periods in Western art history. An art period is a phase in the development of the work of an artist, ... Junk art – 1960s ...