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Comment by Cora de Lang on 15 October 2008 at 8:41pm

it is nice to find this group! since years I am living around this globe and recycling different objects into art works.
I invite you to visit my web www.coradelang.com - under projects you can see ODU IRANTI ....thanks

Comment by Deborah Houston on 10 October 2008 at 2:16pm

I don't know who might be familiar with the work of Willie Cole, but look at his new work with shoes and his past work with irons. Some of the best found art I've seen. He is amazing. He is an American artist.

Comment by Aviva Beigel on 4 October 2008 at 10:52pm

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Comment by Brigitte Martin on 4 October 2008 at 12:58am

Call for Artists: "Double Vision"
Exhibition: March 7, 2009 - April 18, 2009
Deadline for Submissions: February 2, 2009

LUKE & ELOY GALLERY currently reviews images for the gallery's exhibition "Double Vision" scheduled for March 7, 2009 - April 18, 2009.

We are interested in artists who use a variety of art and craft mediums to express contemporary issues and topics (Multiple Media Artists.) All media combinations will be considered including but not limited to painting, sculpture, art jewelry, mixed media, paper, textiles, clay, metal, wood, glass, photography, video and performance.

Eligible: US artists 18 years +

More information under:

Luke & Eloy Gallery
5169 Butler Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
www.lukeandeloy.ning.com

Comment by Lou Reade on 16 September 2008 at 11:54pm

Comment by Rosemary Pierce-Lackey on 27 August 2008 at 3:29am

Welcome all! So glad to see our group grow! Please take a moment to post one of your works that uses found objects or repurposed materials. Wonderful to share ideas and thought processes - keeps us all stimulated...and creating!
:-) Rosemary

Comment by Nirdosh Vibhuti on 24 August 2008 at 5:17am

Hi....i adore resignfy the objects and recicling the things we maybe recicling the thaughts about the things...renew,review...Kisses for all

Comment by Rosemary Pierce-Lackey on 9 August 2008 at 9:33pm

Welcome all new members! Please feel free to post some work here ----it is great to see the variety of imaginative and fantastic art work!

:-) Rosemary

Comment by Rob Van Beek on 5 August 2008 at 10:56am

It's a bit paradoxical to say that art is the removal of barriers and definitions because that is itself a kind of definition...

Sometimes objects are physically altered to make them serve a new purpose, sometimes they are re-positioned and given a new job to do.

I've got a teapot with a broken handle at the studio. Because it now made a poor teapot, I started using it as plant plot. I don't think this transformation is especially artistic. This is what some anthropologists called 'bricollage' - a kind of make and mend - makeshifts.

One thing re-purposing objects as art could mean is taking objects from a situations where they are not regarded as art and putting them in another where they are. This has been done quite a lot with readymades etc. with the result of confusing and dividing people about art even more than they were before.

I work with a lot of found and reclaimed objects because they give me a plentiful supply of objects with attractive and complex properties that I can play around with in my studio. I could not buy all the materials I need and I could not make them or garner them from nature.

This 'scavaging' relationship to my everyday environment, reflects my position to my society and in my community. It makes my everyday life much more interesting than it would be otherwise and gives me a distinctive take on shopping and looking at products...

For the most part I see 'contemporary art' as hopelessly institutionalised - as an activity whose original purposes have become lost in a sea of self-serving and self-interested activity.

I actually think art has a job to do in the real world which it is currently dodging or avoiding.

Instead of being an obscure specialisation - an exclusive sub-world - it could be one among many making activities that explored how we can manipulate physical, visual, aesthetic and narrative properties of things in a creative and resource efficient way.

The 're-purposed' object or material has a radical side to it. It suggests a critique of the economy that produces products that will be sold, discarded and may be recylced.

Traditional communities produced artifacts they could live with and which had special meanings for them. These changed little over generations and put little strain on their environment.

I think there is a kind of job to do for artists with the objects and products of our culture. We have to take them apart and explore how they 'mean' and image whether a modern 'post-product' economy is possible.

I think this is a much more important and inspiring project that shuffling around the sub-sub-world of contemporary fine art looking for recognition for unpaid work.

I've rambled on. Apologies. ROB

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