Nek Chand, New Museum, New Figures
Nek Chand – Creative rebel, recycling genius, or just your typical mosaic artist with a touch of OCD? Read more about one of Olympia Dumpster Divers all-time favorite sculptor/doll maker/visionary HERE
“Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century” is the first exhibition in the “Unmonumental” cycle, and explores the reinvention of sculptural assemblage. Using found, fragmented, and discarded materials, the works of the artists on view make a case for modesty, informality, and improvisation. More about this New Museum exhibit that we WISH we could have been in NYC to see HERE
Ruby Re-Usable is frantically finishing up new figures from repurposed plastic bags and reused bubble wrap from downtown Oly businesses for the opening of the Black Front Gallery tonight; check it out HERE