Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space

49 White Street       (2 blocks below Canal, betw. Church & Broadway)   NYC 10013

 

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 ART FROM DETRITUS: Recycling with Imagination

curated & conceived by Vernita Nemec aka N'Cognita.


11th anniversary of this show of art to save the planet with over 50 artists making art from trash.

 April 14 - May 22, 2005
Opening reception: Thursday, April 14, 6 -8 pm

with 2 panels discussions:

April 29, 7PM @  ATOA@ SVA, 209 E 23rd St & 3rd Av

May 11, 6:30PM @ Synagogue for the Arts

 

Tribeca, New York City-The Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space at 49 White in Tribeca .is honored to present ART FROM DETRITUS: Recycling with Imagination curated & conceived by Vernita Nemec aka N'Cognita.  exciting and important exhibit of art by over 50 artists. Fragments of discarded, found, and recycled materials transformed into painting, collage, sculpture, assemblage, and installation will be on display at the Synagogue for the Arts Gallery Space, 49 White Street in Tribeca, from April 14 to May 22, 2005.

Artists find inspiration from all varieties of sources, and in our 21st century world of environmental overload, too much trash and concerns about the survival of our planet, these artists who use trash as their p[rimary media are helping to save the planet through their artmaking. This is not a new tradition, but recycling the old into the new becomes more and more important as our landfills become overloaded and our air, water and earth becomes more and more polluted.

               Artists have always been recyclers, but Detritus Artists do so with a greater consciousness of the public message conveyed by their choice of materials: the discards of 21st century culture.

              Over 50 artists whose art transcends its humble origins have been selected for the 11th anniversary of Art from Detritus, an exhibit of art transforming society's discards into unique objects of desire.  Some rely on whatever crosses their path to recycle into art, others collect specific stuff or by accident in their odyssey of creative transformation: carving, gluing, painting, nailing, shredding, scraping, dipping, covering, layering, arranging until the viewer wishes she had thought of that.

 

Andrew Bailis,  Beth Bailis,  Marcia Bernstein, jane bouchard,  paul bouchard, Richard Brachman, ione citrin , ursula Clark, joan criswell, Janet Culbertson, Harry DeLorme, hilda.demsky, d'Ann de Simone, May DeViney,  annelies van dommelen, Michael Eck, david edgar, ULA EINSTEIN, Peetie Van Etten, chris gibbs,  paul greco, Fred Gutzeit, Edward Herman, Cathy Hunter, Mary Frances Judge, Kazuko, Jamie Kelty, Tom Kleese, Kathleen King, L. Brandon Krall, bernice kramer,  carole_kunstadt, Diane Kurzyna, Lee Lee,  Flash Light, Barbara Lubliner, Susanna Stefanachi Macomb, Katinka mann, Thelma Mathias, Lynne Mayocole, elizabeth l morisette, N’Cognita, Susan Newmark , Janet Noland, Garry Noland,  Michael Poast, Emma Powell, Nancy Prusinowski, carol quint, Susana Reisman, Len Rosenfeld, Alan Rosner, sura ruth, Naz Shahrokh, Bullet Shih, Katherine Ellinger Smith, shirley smith, Helaine Soller, Marilyn Sontag, stephen soreff, renata stein, Danielle stepahne, Jaime Lee Strollo, Elyse Taylor , robin tost, Sam weiner, Jay   Zeiger , Philip Zuchman

 

So what IS art? Something thought provoking and unique? Something beautiful? Are any of those qualities enough anymore?  Some things that are beautiful & thought provoking are not art, but when something is art, we know inside -- even when it's trash transformed.

 

To schedule group visits for schools and community organizations, contact:Marilyn Sontag, gallery coordinator at the Synagogue for the Arts, at 212-966-7141 or e-mail: abz@inch.com.

Gallery Hours: Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday, 1 - 5 PM; Tuesday, 1 - 7 PM. Also by appointment. 

Special hours for T.O.A.S.T. (Tribeca Open Artists Studio Tour): 

To see more Art from Detritus, please go to www.ncognita.com