Reuse art show in Athens!
Athens NEWS Campus Reporter
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Can "trash" be both functional and aesthetically pleasing? Three local artists think that it can, and they are setting out to prove the point this week with a gallery of unique and thrifty sculptures, paintings and "inkies" at UnionArts, a new alternative art space at 15 W. Union St., room 101 B.
"When you are paying for classes, you have a lot of materials to use," artist Tessa Evanoksy said Friday while setting up pieces for the show at UnionArts, which opens Tuesday evening. "For me, it's about kind of finding what I can and throwing it together."
Evanosky and her fellow artists Erica Sutherland and Jamie Lewis are not students and live on a budget. They say they have spent years scavenging for materials and creating "trash art" together in their spare time. Their mediums include surreal junk treasures, ranging from a used traffic cone and plastic dolls to serving trays and traditional inks used to make abstract, two-dimensional "inkies" of exotic worlds and ethereal figures.
"Most of the stuff that I make, I don't think people with money like," Lewis joked while taking a break from adjusting the position of an ornately beaded mobile during Friday's set-up. Lewis said that many of the materials she and the other artists use to make art were rescued from dumpsters and thrift stores.
(For the full article, click here.)
Athens NEWS Campus Reporter
Monday, November 12th, 2007
Can "trash" be both functional and aesthetically pleasing? Three local artists think that it can, and they are setting out to prove the point this week with a gallery of unique and thrifty sculptures, paintings and "inkies" at UnionArts, a new alternative art space at 15 W. Union St., room 101 B.
"When you are paying for classes, you have a lot of materials to use," artist Tessa Evanoksy said Friday while setting up pieces for the show at UnionArts, which opens Tuesday evening. "For me, it's about kind of finding what I can and throwing it together."
Evanosky and her fellow artists Erica Sutherland and Jamie Lewis are not students and live on a budget. They say they have spent years scavenging for materials and creating "trash art" together in their spare time. Their mediums include surreal junk treasures, ranging from a used traffic cone and plastic dolls to serving trays and traditional inks used to make abstract, two-dimensional "inkies" of exotic worlds and ethereal figures.
"Most of the stuff that I make, I don't think people with money like," Lewis joked while taking a break from adjusting the position of an ornately beaded mobile during Friday's set-up. Lewis said that many of the materials she and the other artists use to make art were rescued from dumpsters and thrift stores.
(For the full article, click here.)
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