Continuing: Detritus Upcycled at Viridian Artists

Detritus Upcycled features the work of artists who make exciting fine art from trash. The heart of this exhibit is the message of the three R's: Reduce/Reuse/Recycle and especially "upcycling”. This exhibit reaches beyond the art world, serving as a message not only about art, but also about the environment.

By seeing beauty in the discarded, these artists have been creatively addressing the problem of too much trash by using it to create fascinating and unique art before it was even known to be an environmental problem. Artists have been using found objects to make art for eons, but now it has become ostensibly a political act.

Continuing through September 28 at Viridian Artists, 348 West 28th Street, #623, New York, NY