Up-cycling Detritus

CURATOR: VERNITA NEMEC

• Virtual Release: Thursday April 15, 2021

• Virtual Exhibition: April 15, 2021 – May 30, 2021 EXTENDED until September 1st, 2021

• Panel Discussion: May 07, 2021 @ 7:00 PM

Introduction

In these times, our environment is in danger more than ever and we must do all we can to save it from further destruction. The evidence suggests that early art was created by artist/shamans who protected the hunt and blessed the harvest. The power of art continues to exist in our contemporary time, a world of machines and cybernetics, and this power continues to be available for us to implement it. Creating from the discarded materials as an alternative, however, is crucial — and the most responsible decision, to extend the use of materials and reduce the abuse of materials that require the destruction of the environment. Sculptors Alliance has the honor and privilege to be Vernita Nemec’s ally supporting the 20th Art From Detritus: “Up-cycling Detritus."

About the Curator

Vernita Nemec is an artist and curator, and serves as Director of Viridian Artists (since 2000) and on the Board of Advisors of Soho20 in Chelsea NYC. She is the former Executive Director of Artists Talk On Art in New York City (1989-1999). Nemec is the creator of “Art from Detritus” (AFD), and conceived the first AFD Exhibition in 1993. The concept has received supportive funding from the Puffin Foundation, the Kaufmann Foundation and the National Recycling Coalition, just to name a few. AFD has been presented at the National Recycling Coalition, Sears, Roebuck and Co., the Puffin Foundation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation headquarters, American Institute of Architects, Linda Hall Library of Science, Rockhurst College, Writer’s Place, Henry Street Settlement - Abrons Arts Center, Gallery 450, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University, WAH Center and Viridian.

Selected Artists

Penny Babel

Z Behl

Michèle Fandel Bonner

Ellen Burnett

Emanuela Camacci

Irene Christensen

Marieken Cochius

Pam Cooper

Kyle Cottier

May DeViney

Katherine Earle

Jodie Fink

Deb Flagel

Bess French

Garth Fry

Chris Hynes

Kazuo Ishikawa

Sun Young Kang

Soyoung L Kim

Henry Klimowitz

Bernice Sokol Kramer

Yvonne Lamar Rogers

Sandra Lapage

Eric David Laxman

Kathy Levine

Madeleine Lord

Rick McCoy

Elizabeth Morisette

Kenichi Nakajima

Minga Opazo

Carol Oster

Carol Paik

Gale Rothstein

Sophia Ruppert

Dani Schuller

Ruby Silvious

Ian Trask

Rebecca McGee Tuck

Yuko Uchida

Jeanne Verdoux

April Wright

Toby Zallman

Larry Zdeb

Dolores Zorreguieta

About the navigation of this exhibition

Viewing artwork in this online exhibition has a linear nature - through scrolling. The list of selected artists is alphabetical by last name. You are free to scroll freely and experience the exhibition anyway scrolling allows you to explore.

The general order is the following: artist’s name, artist’s website (or social media link). Followed by a gallery with a number of images that may vary from 1 to 6. Details about the work in the image will appear after clicking on the image (which activates a light-box for an intimate experience with the image of the work). Information about the work will appear when the mouse hovers over the image, revealing the title of the work, the year(s) in which it was made, dimensions, materials, source of the materials, and even the process used to produce the work. To exit the light-box look for the X button at the top right corner, or press the key “esc” on your keyboard. Some artists present several images (whether a variety of different pieces, or details). The viewer can click or tab to the right side of an image to go forward or the left side to go backwards.

If your experience navigating this exhibition is not as described in here, please try using a computer.

For inquiries regarding acquisition of artwork on this exhibition please contact: exhibitions@sculptorsalliance.org

At the very end, please sign our guestbook. Thank you!