Recycled The Main Gallery Birthday Show
The exhibition "Recycled" opens at The Main Gallery and runs from August 12th to September 13th. This is the annual, all-gallery “birthday” show and this year the artists chose to unite on the theme “Recycled.” Artists have a long history of creatively re-purposing items and in this show they explore the many ways items often thought useless can be transformed into something useful again.
Redwood City, CA, July 10, 2009 --(PR.com)-- One of the participating artists, Elizabeth Noerdlinger recycles some of her old never-completed paintings on canvas and board often altering the color palette, to achieve compelling new work. She also presents some new paintings that include small images clipped from the newspaper---as a tiny way of recycling newspaper.
For Cheryl Shepard. the idea of recycling was a theme that she wanted to explore years ago. Shepard feels “It’s a challenge to come up with something that is aesthetically pleasing as well as inspiring to make us think about ways to take care of our planet.” Photography is her usual medium, and she is partial to black and white but may exhibit some color work as well.
Clay is Susan Wolf’s primary medium. For this show she recycles the idea of the “Dream Tree” and fashions an actual mosaic from some of her old work.
Doris Fischer-Colbrie works with porcelain and has been interested in the idea of ceramic beads for some time. Running across a number of small porcelain circles left over from another project, she realized that they were just what she was looking for - not "conventional" beads. The resulting necklaces are offbeat and fun, showing how creative recycling can be.
One of Belinda Chlouber’s projects uses door panels reclaimed from renovated or demolished buildings. She marries these materials with fabric samples discarded by interior designers to create mixed media collages. Chlouber has had a long-time interest in using recycled and repurposed items in her artwork. She believes that “this is a wonderful opportunity to create public awareness about how artists creatively use, and reuse both materials and ideas.”
"I'm a fool for shiny things," says mixed media artist Debora Crosby of Redwood City. "I'm a bit of an old crow, keeping my hoarded stash of found objects in my studio. I’m equally fascinated by the old, rusted and discarded items that take on new identities as they find their way into my work. For the "Recycled" show, I have created a series of abstract collages titled "The Mechanics of Falling." I'm using gears, rivets, washers and other mechanical parts harvested from Alan Steel and Supply in Redwood City to create these lyrical works. I've also appropriated spare parts from my husband's workbench on the other side of my studio! I feel a spark of excitement when the individual parts start to take on a metaphorical meaning or begin to function as line, form and shape in the compositions.”
The title of the exhibition inspired Terrie Moore to rework some of her older drawings created earlier in her career. She also will have pieces done on panels made from old doors that have found a new life as artist’s boards.
This is a diverse and eclectic show and promises to inspire the viewer into thinking about the many ways we can all “recycle.”
A reception for the show will be held Saturday, August 15th, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm and will coincide with Redwood City’s monthly Artwalk. The Gallery will be hosting their first ever “Trunk Show” on September 12th from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm featuring wearable art. This promises to be an exciting new event for the Gallery and a great opportunity to do some early Christmas shopping.
The Main Gallery, an artists’ cooperative with 23 members, showcases the work of some of the best local talent in the Bay Area and is located at 1018 Main Street at the corner of Main and Middlefield in the historic yellow Victorian Cottage. The Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm and weekends from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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For Cheryl Shepard. the idea of recycling was a theme that she wanted to explore years ago. Shepard feels “It’s a challenge to come up with something that is aesthetically pleasing as well as inspiring to make us think about ways to take care of our planet.” Photography is her usual medium, and she is partial to black and white but may exhibit some color work as well.
Clay is Susan Wolf’s primary medium. For this show she recycles the idea of the “Dream Tree” and fashions an actual mosaic from some of her old work.
Doris Fischer-Colbrie works with porcelain and has been interested in the idea of ceramic beads for some time. Running across a number of small porcelain circles left over from another project, she realized that they were just what she was looking for - not "conventional" beads. The resulting necklaces are offbeat and fun, showing how creative recycling can be.
One of Belinda Chlouber’s projects uses door panels reclaimed from renovated or demolished buildings. She marries these materials with fabric samples discarded by interior designers to create mixed media collages. Chlouber has had a long-time interest in using recycled and repurposed items in her artwork. She believes that “this is a wonderful opportunity to create public awareness about how artists creatively use, and reuse both materials and ideas.”
"I'm a fool for shiny things," says mixed media artist Debora Crosby of Redwood City. "I'm a bit of an old crow, keeping my hoarded stash of found objects in my studio. I’m equally fascinated by the old, rusted and discarded items that take on new identities as they find their way into my work. For the "Recycled" show, I have created a series of abstract collages titled "The Mechanics of Falling." I'm using gears, rivets, washers and other mechanical parts harvested from Alan Steel and Supply in Redwood City to create these lyrical works. I've also appropriated spare parts from my husband's workbench on the other side of my studio! I feel a spark of excitement when the individual parts start to take on a metaphorical meaning or begin to function as line, form and shape in the compositions.”
The title of the exhibition inspired Terrie Moore to rework some of her older drawings created earlier in her career. She also will have pieces done on panels made from old doors that have found a new life as artist’s boards.
This is a diverse and eclectic show and promises to inspire the viewer into thinking about the many ways we can all “recycle.”
A reception for the show will be held Saturday, August 15th, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm and will coincide with Redwood City’s monthly Artwalk. The Gallery will be hosting their first ever “Trunk Show” on September 12th from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm featuring wearable art. This promises to be an exciting new event for the Gallery and a great opportunity to do some early Christmas shopping.
The Main Gallery, an artists’ cooperative with 23 members, showcases the work of some of the best local talent in the Bay Area and is located at 1018 Main Street at the corner of Main and Middlefield in the historic yellow Victorian Cottage. The Gallery is open Wednesday to Friday from 11:00 am to 4:00 pm and weekends from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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