Video: Bizarre installations from an assortment of all-for-the-dollar stores by American artist
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The installations by the American artist Crystal Wagner are an amazing and striking symbiosis of wire mesh, cut paper and assorted items from the “All for the Dollar” store. Her works resemble the flora of an outlandish planet and, oddly enough, organically fit into the gallery space.
Wagner creates multi-layered complex shapes from simple and sometimes worn-out objects. Old tablecloths, band fences, office supplies - everything is used, transforming into incredibly beautiful, almost alien intricacies.
Krystal is well versed in the art of engraving, which contributes a lot to the development of her creative thought. She refines the ready-made installations, adding a variety of artistic elements, such as prints or decorations in the form of a vine or rose petals. These small inclusions contrast well with the main installation, in which a significant place is given to the volumetric elements.
In 2004, Crystal Wagner received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Atlanta College of Art, Georgia, and in 2008 she received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Tennessee. Wagner is currently an assistant professor at his alma mater, the College of Art in Atlanta. Her original 2D and 3D work has been critically acclaimed. Thanks to the use of recyclable materials, an original approach to installation and uncommon work with material, her work has been approved by art critics and connoisseurs of beauty. The artist is now actively exhibiting throughout the United States.
A colleague of Crystal Wagner's shop, a Californian artist, sculptor, and part-time furniture manufacturer, Barbara Holmes has prepared an original fifty-meter installation in the form of a snake, consisting of thin wood planks. It is noteworthy that all the materials used by the artist were found in a landfill.
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