This painting, “Trash Painting #3”, went up at ArtsWorcester for their show Eleventh Annual One last month. I’m pleased to say that someone bought it!
A bit about the painting:
mixed media art waste (acrylic, PVA glue, paper, cardboard, rhinestones, Sculptamold, and CA glue tube) on canvas board, 4″ x 6″ x 2″, 2020
In my series “Trash Paintings,” I only use materials left over from other art projects—unused acrylic paint lingering on the palette, sheets of half-dried glue from the morning after a papier-mâché session, snippets of cardboard picked off the floor. I assembled Trash Painting #3 from waste from a series of rhinestone-studded ‘disco objects’ I made early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Creating with waste emboldens me to explore textures and compositions I’m scared will be ugly. What’s the worst that could happen? It’s already trash.
See all the other art on the show page here. Ctrl+F for “TOO SENSITIVE”, my friend Sophie’s beautiful painting, and “Baking With Type 1 Diabetes”, a mixed media assemblage featuring used diabetic supplies.
