Water bottles, wiffle balls and even a laundry basket are the among the discarded items artist Marie Lorenz has fished out of New York’s waterways during her boat-journeys-as-art. Here, she has turned them into a ceramic mobile. (At Jack Hanley Gallery on the Lower East Side through May 22nd).
French artist Anita Molinero is known for destroying vibrantly colored, plastic consumer goods by melting them. Here, pale green Styrofoam trays remain intact but pierced, supported by cradling metal arms and a backed by a chunk of concrete. (At Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery through Feb 14th).
Anita Molinero, Untitled, 16 ½ x 12 ½ x 15 inches, 2014.
An art student discovered a cache of tiny sculptures left on the sidewalk for the trash truck; thirty years later, they’re renowned as the work of the anonymous outsider artist known as the Philadelphia Wireman. Invisible Exports enlivens a selection of them by showing them alongside a huge Vik Muniz photo from his Pictures of Junk series. (On the Lower East Side through July 13).
