Viridian’s Director, Vernita Nemec, has curated an outstanding exhibition with The Sculptor’s Alliance. Please click here to view the show.
Up-cycling Detritus
CURATOR: VERNITA NEMEC
Online Exhibition: April 15, 2021 - May 30, 2021
Online Panel Discussion: Friday May 7, 2021 at 7:00 PM
The Online Panel Discussion will be open to the public.
Information to access the online gathering will be provided via email invitation to those who RSVP at rsvp@sculptorsalliance.org by May 05, 2021. Instructions will be provided via email.
Up-Cycling Detritus" presents works by 44 artists who bridge the boundaries of sculpture in an effort to conceive their works using valuable materials that otherwise would have been discarded. Listed alphabetically by last name, they are:
Penny Babel, Z Behl, Michèle Fandel Bonner, Ellen Burnett, Emanuela Camacci, Irene Christensen, Marieken Cochius, Pam Cooper, Kyle Cottier, May deViney, Katherine Earle, Jodie Fink, Deb Flagel, Bess French, Garth Fry, Chris Hynes, Kazuo Ishikawa, Sun Young Kang, Soyoung L Kim, Henry Klimowitz, Bernice Sokol Kramer, Yvonne Lamar Rogers, Sandra Lapage, Eric David Laxman, Kathy Levine, Madeleine Lord, Rick McCoy, Elizabeth Morrisette, Kenichi Nakajima, Minga Opazo, Carol Oster, Carol Paik, Gale Rothstein, Sophia Ruppert, Dani Schuller, Ruby Silvious, Ian Trask, Rebecca McGee Tuck, Yuko Uchida, Jeanne Verdoux, April Wright, Toby Zallman, Larry Zdeb, and Dolores Zorreguieta.
About the Curator:
Vernita Nemec is an artist and curator, and serves as Director of Viridian Artists (since 2000) and on the Board of Advisors of Soho20 in Chelsea NYC. She is the former Executive Director of Artists Talk On Art in New York City (1989-1999). Nemec is the creator of “Art from Detritus” (AFD), and conceived the first AFD Exhibition in 1993. The concept has received supportive funding from the Puffin Foundation, the Kaufmann Foundation and the National Recycling Coalition, just to name a few. AFD has been presented at the National Recycling Coalition, Sears, Roebuck and Co., the Puffin Foundation, Westinghouse Electric Corporation headquarters, American Institute of Architects, Linda Hall Library of Science, Rockhurst College, Writer’s Place, Henry Street Settlement - Abrons Arts Center, Gallery 450, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Fairleigh Dickinson University, WAH Center and Viridian.