Bricolage: REBIRTH - a Visual Concepts Spring 2009 Class Exhibition a tGreenBeing
Environmentally and Socially Responsible, 334 Adams Ave. Scranton, PA 18503 April 3 through April 28, 2009.
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, April 3, 2009, 6-9pm
Bricolage: REBIRTH started as an assignment given by Ted Michalowski to his Visual Concepts class at Marywood University. This is an exhibition of the 14 solutions by the 14 students. The assignment was to create a bricolage dimensional work, incorporating a free-wheeling use of materials, the theme being Rebirth. This theme brought interpretations from the secular to sacred, social to seasonal, recycling to resurrection, ecological to enigmatic.
Materials were gathered ad hoc by each individual student, assorted finds such as cardboard, plastic, aluminum, wood, cloth, tin cans, nails, string, etc. These scrounged materials were manipulated so that they no longer resembled that of their original purpose, in order to create something much more beautiful. That’s bricolage.
This way of working was introduced to Ted Michalowski by his bricolage mentor at Syracuse University’s ISDP-MA Illustration Masters Program, the master bricoleur, Gene Hoffman— handy-man, tinkerer, trash-talker, dumpster-diver, pick-of-the-litter, neotoma cinerea, the conceptual blockbuster. Gene Hoffman passed away in 2005, however his life renews, as his methods, through generations of students inspired.
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