Group Exhibition:
Re-appropriation
January 9, 2010 - February 27, 2009
OBJCT Gallery
250 West 2nd Street
Pomona, CA
OBJCT Gallery invites you to experience our latest exhibition addressing the intersection between art and design. The concept of reusing or recycling objects or readymades into art is not new; Marcel Duchamp introduced the idea of the readymade as a way to combat the notion of art, rendering objects useless from their original intention.
The term appropriation refers to the idea of borrowing, re-using or reclaiming castoffs of material society, incorporating them into the design process to create new, and in the case here, useful objects. In the context of this exhibition this re-appropriation is considered to be an appropriate reuse of unwanted or discarded items. Reuse is often confused with recycling, but they are really quite different. (Even those engaged in reuse frequently refer to it as recycling.) Reuse in the broadest sense means any activity that lengthens the life of an object. Recycling, on the other hand, is the reprocessing of an item into a new raw material for use in a new product.
What we are experiencing currently is a shift in how artists and designers are contemplating the reuse of objects or materials as not just a way to represent a concept or idea but as a vehicle to reflect on issues that are larger and outside of the basic realm of art and design. Issues of sustainability and environmental consciousness are beginning to infiltrate these art/design elements with the intention of rendering “new” objects that are useful as well as appropriate in terms of social responsibility.
Artists represented in this exhibition include:
Castor Designs - Brian Richer and Kei Ng.
Arthur Comings
Gabrial Gonzales
Tim Hemstreet
Greg Lynn
Kimberly McKinnis
Lisa Segal
Sam Tanis
Cassandra Tondro
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