Presented in collaboration with The Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn.

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 April 2004. Exhibiting artists include Ron Baron, Steven Bradley, Bob Braine, Peggy Diggs, Elizabeth Duffy, Judy Hoffman, Tamiko Kawata, Justen Ladda, Robin Lasser with Adrienne Pao and John Trefethen, Eung Ho Park, Sarah Hollis Perry, Paul Rutkovsky, Steven Siegel, Mierle Laderman Ukeles and Janet Zweig.

Recycling and reuse are fundamental processes in the natural world. As we charge into the 21st century with an insatiable thirst for consumption, the cycles of nature provoke an essential reexamination of our own patterns of use and reuse. April marks the resumption of New York City's full recycling program, and provides an opportunity to rethink how we consume and how we discard. The seventeen artists in this exhibit use conceptual methods to explore issues of consumption, waste generation and removal, and reinvigorate discarded materials. They employ a range of strategies to engage visitors in thinking about the objects we discard, how they might be reused, and how they might be reinterpreted. Many of the artists have been actively involved in public art and some have created permanent artworks in the Bronx.

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This exhibition was presented with The Rotunda Gallery a program of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture. The concept was collaborative and the exhibits were curated by each venue, with a catalogue documenting both exhibitions. Their exhibition was on view from March 18 – May 8, for more info visit www.briconline.org/Rotunda

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Principal funding for the Visual Arts Program is provided by Stephen and Cathy Weinroth and the Greenwall Foundation. Sustaining support for Wave Hill is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs. Thank you to the artists for creating and lending their artwork and to the Cambridge Arts Council and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. Also, thank you to The Rotunda Gallery for collaborating.

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