This is my latest self-portrait, made from discarded coat hanger wire, thrift store stuff, a popsicle stick, fabric scrap, paper bag, cardboard, and plaster gauze: I started doing these Day of the Dead inspired skeletons in 2009, when my younger son … Continue reading →
Our friend Barbara De Pirro has been busy working on her labor-intensive recycle art installations all over the Pacific Northwest. The amount of plastic bottles, plastic caps, and plastic bags that she crochets, weaves, staples, and strings together to create … Continue reading →
Marita Dingus‘ latest art exhibit, The Girls, is at Traver Gallery until March 28. Marita continues her fearless exploration of recycled materials in this fierce display of female figures of the African Diaspora that range in size from 6 1/2 … Continue reading →
Marita Dingus and Ruby Re-Usable worked with all of the 7th graders at McClure Middle School in Seattle for 3 days (5/15 – 5/17/2013) to create “mavericks” (the school mascot) out of discarded plastic stuff which they attached with telephone … Continue reading →
Ruby Re-Usable and Lana Landfill (aka Stuart Gullstrand) were part of an outrageous trash fashion event in Seattle: Trash Fashion Futures was a two evening showcase of the very best of the west coast trash fashion movement, where trashionistas were … Continue reading →
All of the ensembles that sashayed down the Seattle RE Store’s Trash Fashion Show catwalk were remarkable in their own trashy way, but the one that took everyone’s breath away truly was this one: A Marriage of Inconvenience by Alotta … Continue reading →
Continuing our recap of the Seattle RE Store’s 10th Annual Trash Fashion Show, we now present Ruby Re-Usable‘s Salute to the Red, White and Blue: Ruby Salutes the Red, White and Blue by Ruby Re-Usable, photo by John Cornicello The … Continue reading →
Happy Earth Day! Carmen Miranda Design by Remixa Plastique, photo by Michael Cline The Seattle RE Store’s two sold-out Trash Fashion Shows were truly trashtastic: twenty nine designers/design teams with twenty one models presented over thirty four ensembles made … Continue reading →
Some recycled art history: Ruby Re-Usable’s first and only experience with a Tony Cragg piece was at the Portland Art Museum in 2002; made from grey and white bits of plastic stuff (including the lid from a film canister and … Continue reading →
Check out the recycled art mandalas by Brad Skubinna now on exhibit at Francine Seders Gallery in Seattle. Plastic junk can be so repulsive and yet so compelling; Skubinna’s careful arrangements remind me yet again how obsessive/compulsive artists that work … Continue reading →
