It’ll be no problem to ‘Please recycle this bag,’ in this case, as artwork. Yoonmi Nam’s plastic carrier bags are in fact lithographs on gampi paper containing not plastic food containers but glazed slipcast porcelain. They subvert the notion of disposability powerfully. (At the International Print Center’s ‘New Prints 2017/Winter’ exhibition through April 1st).
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Christine and Margaret Wertheim and the Institute for Figuring at the Museum of Art & Design
In one of the most visually stunning shows in New York this season, sisters Christine and Margaret Wertheim and a team of collaborating makers have created crocheted segments of coral reefs as sculptures, now on view at the Museum of Art and Design. Using geometry to crochet forms that correspond to the shapes of the reefs, the sisters combine yarn and plastic trash in glittering, colorful sculptures that gratify the senses as they warn against our ongoing destruction of the world’s coral reefs. (On view through Jan 22nd).
Josh Blackwell at 11R
New York artist Josh Blackwell morphs a plastic carrier bag into a wonder of colorful stitching in a free-standing sculpture that’s a poster child for reuse and recycling. (At 11R on the Lower East Side through June 5th).
Janet Fish at DC Moore Gallery
Janet Fish, Plantains in a Box, oil on canvas, 44 x 44 inches, 1969.
Miranda Lichtenstein at Elizabeth Dee Gallery
Miranda Lichtenstein, You!, archival pigment print, 40 x 26 ½ inches, 2015.