Video: Original sculptures from recycled materials from a talented American woman
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
There is a tendency among contemporary artists to use long-serving materials for the manufacture of sculptures and installations. For example, a young American artist, sculptor and graphic artist, Crystal Wagner uses old materials to create her works. She often finds parts for future installations right on the street, and sometimes buys everything she needs in the cheapest stores.
Wagner's colleague, Californian artist, sculptor, and furniture manufacturer, Barbara Holmes, also once prepared an original fifty-meter installation in the form of a snake, consisting of thin wood planks. All the materials that the artist used were found in a landfill.
Looking at the work of Wagner, it is impossible to imagine that all this full-color splendor is the creation of human hands. Many people compare Wagner's installations and sculptures with the vegetation of a distant planet - the work of an American woman looks so incredible. Surprisingly, what was once thrown away by someone as unnecessary is fabulously transformed in someone's talented hands.
Wagner was born in Baltimore. The artist received an excellent education: in 2008 she graduated from the University of Tennessee with a Master of Fine Arts degree, and four years earlier, Wagner received a BA from the College of Fine Arts in Atlanta, Georgia. Today the artist works a lot, actively exhibits and teaches. The works of the American woman have repeatedly received high praise from critics, and have also been noted by some serious art publications.
Wagner has big plans for 2014. In addition to working on installations and sculptures, she plans to attend several art colleges as a visiting artist. So, her lectures will be available at the University of Iowa, University of South Carolina, University of Hawaii at Manoa and others.
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