Ruby Re-Usable first encountered Leo Sewell on the beloved TV show Mr Rogers’ Neighborhood, where Leo was showing Mr Rogers how he attaches found junk onto wooden armatures to create his recycled art animals. She also read about how he … Continue reading →
Our friend Marita was all excited about the big bottle man at the Seattle Art Museum, and so yesterday Ruby went to SAM to see for herself what Marita was raving about: Jerry Pethick’s Le Semeur/Sunlight and Flies, 1984/2002 is … Continue reading →
Wonderful Me Flies Away by Ruby Re-Usable Olympia Dumpster Divers Stuart Gullstrand and Ruby Re-Usable have recycled art work on display at the Olympia Hands On Children’s Museum’s “Looking At Art Gallery,” courtesy of Matter Gallery (more pics HERE). Art … Continue reading →
Seattle is celebrating Black History Month with an exhibit at Seattle City Hall that features Marita Dingus and Roosevelt Lewis. You have until February 26, 2010 to see our friend Marita’s 60 foot long Buddha as an African Enslaved (pictured … Continue reading →
Dan Schreiber of Centralia’s The Chronicle visited with our favorite visionary artist Richard Tracy, aka Rich Art, recently. Ruby read about it in The Olympian, but Dan also produced a great video of Rich Art that not only follows him … 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 →
Now most of the time Ruby Re-Usable wants to show you recycled art that goes BEYOND egg cartons and cardboard toilet paper tubes, but those materials are ubiquitous and can be reused in creative ways: Japanese artist Yuken Teruya creates … Continue reading →
Isn’t this bunny cute? Well, yeah, it DOES reek a bit … New England artist Tom Deininger created this rabbit out of the cigarette butts that he picked up from beach parking lots. This is an example of how Recycled … Continue reading →
Regina Hackett at Art To Go got the scoop (but why she titled her post Two Seattle Chandeliers when the artists in question are both from Tacoma makes me want to remind everyone everywhere that Seattle is NOT the only … Continue reading →
