Contact: Julia Waters
718-549-3200 x232 or juliaw@wavehill.org

Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine
Wave Hill Glyndor Gallery, March 6 – May 31, 2004

Public Reception: April 25, 1 – 4:30pm
Artists’ Panel Discussion: May 23, 2pm

Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine engages contemporary artists who use conceptual methods to explore issues of consumption, waste generation and removal, and who reinvigorate discarded materials. The exhibition is timed to coincide with the full resumption of New York City’s recycling program in spring 2004. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with The Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, a not-for-profit exhibition space that features the work of Brooklyn-affiliated contemporary artists in all media. Exhibiting artists include Ron Baron, Steven Bradley, Bob Braine, Peggy Diggs, Elizabeth Duffy, Judy Hoffman, Tamiko Kawata, Justen Ladda, Robin Lasser with Adrienne Pau and John Trefethen, Eung Ho Park, Sarah Hollis Perry, Paul Rutkovsky, Steven Siegel, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Janet Zweig.

Several artists are examining consumption, including Paul Rutkovsky whose Garbage Jacket comprises trash collected daily and daily journals that track what he consumes and disposes. Tamika Kawata’s installation of toilet paper tubes catalogs our monthly use of toilet paper.

Other artists have reconceived objects that have lost their value or purpose. Combining tag sale cast-offs with rubble,  Ron Baron’s sculptures are time capsules of a single household. Sarah Hollis Perry finds a use for the ubiquitous blue New York Times home delivery bags in At Home, a specially made chair and ottoman. Elizabeth Duffy’s wall drawings employ Chase Bank statement envelopes and her floor piece uses lint.

Peggy Diggs is interested in ways that people make do with less. She will display everyday objects that have either been fabricated out of materials made for other purposes or repaired with what was on hand. Along with these pieces, there will be broken objects for viewers to fix, using the materials provided. The results provide a picture of ‘making-do’.

Several artists connect nature and culture. Eung Ho Park’s wall installation of bent spoons suggests schools of fish or pulsating sperm. In her Ground Springs series, Judy Hoffman creates an otherworldly tableau that combines scavenged natural, industrial and waste materials with handmade paper.

Pioneering artist Mierle Laderman Ukeles will be represented by documentation of Danehy Park, an ongoing project with the city of Cambridge, MA that has transformed a landfill into an active, public park. 

Devalue/Revalue is Steve Bradley’s investigation of patterns of discarding solid waste. In December he began a series of trash-collecting walks with 9th grade students from the John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx, NY. Their cataloged findings will be incorporated into a large installation.

Steven Siegel is frequently commissioned to make large-scale sculptures out of collected newspaper or other recyclables. They exist in-situ as monuments to consumption until they deteriorate. Documentation of several of these works and a wall piece from a series of studio work will be exhibited. Re-using elements from past projects, Janet Zweig has devised a mechanical flipbook that looks at the poetics of recycling.

Bob Braine paddles along the Harlem River in a boat he has built and camouflaged with trash in the video Harlem River Duck Boat. Robin Lasser and students from San Jose State University created a video during an artist’s residency at the San Francisco Sanitary Fill Company that challenges the volume of our consumption.

In addition to the artworks, there will be information on recycling programs and opportunities for visitors to rethink how they consume and how they dispose of waste.
 

PUBLIC RECEPTION
April 25, 1 – 4:30pmexhibition opening and Earth Day celebration*
ARTISTS’ PANEL DISCUSSION
May 23, 2pmStrategies of Engagement, with exhibiting artists Steve Bradley, Peggy Diggs, Mierle Ukeles
FAMILY ART PROJECTS
April 17, 18, 1 – 4pmTube and Twig Transformations with artist Tamiko Kawata
April 24, 25, 1 – 4pm*Electro-Bio-Techno Recycling to celebrate Earth Day
May 22, 23, 1 – 4pmBottle Cap Caper with artist Eung Ho Park
VAN EXCHANGES between the Rotunda Gallery and Wave Hill are being planned.      Reduce/Reuse/Reexamine, Rotunda Gallery, March 18-May 8, 2004  (www.briconline.org/rotunda/)

GLYNDOR GALLERY HOURS
10am to 4:30pm, Tuesday-Sunday. Open until 8pm on Wednesdays in June and July.
WAVE HILL ADMISSION
March-Nov: $4; $2/Seniors and Students; FREE Members and children under 6; FREE all day Tuesday; FREE 9am to noon Saturday

Wave Hill  675 West 252nd Street, Bronx, New York 10471-2899
Phone: 718-549-3200      Email: arts@wavehill.org    www.wavehill.org
Accessible by car, Liberty Lines Express Bus, Metro-North Rail, the ‘A’ subway with Bx7 bus, #1/9 subway with Bx7/10 buses. 

Wave Hill is a 28-acre public garden and cultural center overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades in the northwest Bronx. Award-winning gardens, greenhouses, and woodlands offer people of all ages the opportunity to explore their connections to the natural world. Programs are offered in horticulture, environmental education, woodland management and the arts.

The Arts at Wave Hill are sponsored by Target Corporation.
Principal funding for the visual arts program is provided by the Stephen and Cathy Weinroth Charitable Trust and the Greenwall Foundation. Sustaining support for Wave Hill is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Gilbert Kerlin Endowment Fund at Wave Hill for Environmental Science and Nature Education.