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November Issue
2009
Nina Liu and
Friends Gallery in Charleston, SC, Features Group Exhibit of Recycled
Art
Nina Liu and Friends Gallery in Charleston, SC, is presenting Second Lives, an exhibition of work that five artists have created by using recycled materials for inspiration and media. The exhibit featuring works by Nancy Eaves, Mana Hewitt, Jeff Kopish, David Puls, and Aggie Zed, will be on view through Nov. 30, 2009.
New Orleans, LA, artist Nancy Eaves says that her "work is an assemblage - a mixture - like Gumbo and Jazz." Her jewelry features found objects such as watch dials and game tokens. Using a variety of metalworking techniques, Eaves modifies these objects and combines them with one another to create a collection of sly pieces that is more than simple bijouterie.
Many viewers will be familiar with Columbia, SC, artist Mana Hewitt's paintings and etched copper studies of the nude figure. For Second Lives Hewitt uses recycled tin as a primary material as well as a design element. The works use "word play through exploration and experimentation," yielding whimsical images that Hewitt tempers with social commentary.
The exhibit includes works from the "canned fish series" by Charleston artist Jeff Kopish. He began the series upon finding discarded trash can lids from Charleston's historic Dock Street Theatre. Kopish combines a variety of found items to "make trash and waste into art that makes you smile" while also encouraging viewers to consider the impact that they have on the greater environment.
David Puls, another Charleston artist and a recipient of a South Carolina Arts Commission Artist Fellowship, is familiar to many gallery regulars for his plywood chairs, tables and toys. For this exhibition Puls uses recycled cardboard and other repurposed materials to fabricate furniture that is playful, functional and, in the case of his chairs, very comfortable.
Aggie Zed, a native of South Carolina who now lives in Virginia, uses fragmentary ceramic elements and found objects to form animal and human figures. Her raw materials include milk jugs, cans, and mobile home skirting. Zed's sometimes delicate figures appear as apparitions from long-forgotten myths or visions of some post-apocalyptic tale.
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