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Mary Ellen Croteau – January 2012

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Endless Columns

Endless Columns in my studio

Also on view this month at 626 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago in Columbia College Bookstore window

ENDLESS COLUMNS

I am working with trash – stuff that can’t be or isn’t recycled, mostly because it is not financially profitable.  “Endless Columns” (a take-off on Constantin Brancusi’s iconic modernist sculpture) are made of plastic jar lids and bottle caps.  The colors are beautiful, but the trash is ugly – and endless.  I hope to make people aware of just how much garbage we are throwing onto the earth, especially plastics.  Worse, they are made from petroleum, exactly what we are fighting wars for.  People are dying so we can have disposable bottles and bags.

Meanwhile,  I hope to take things that would otherwise go into a garbage dump and make beautiful environments from them.

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Las Columnas Sin Fin

Estoy trabajando con la basura – cosas que no pueden o no se recicla, sobre todo porque no es económicamente rentable. “Las columnas sin fin” son de las tapas de plástico y tapas de botellas. Los colores son hermosos, pero la basura es fea. Espero que la gente tome conciencia de lo mucho que la basura se está tirando a la tierra, especialmente plásticos. Peor aún, están hechos de petróleo, exactamente lo que estamos luchando en guerras de. La gente está muriendo para que podamos tener botellas desechables y bolsas.

Mientras tanto, espero que tomar las cosas que de otro modo en un vertedero de basura y hacer de los entornos bellos de ellos.


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Press for Art On Armitage

Art on Armitage was named as the second of 5 best window galleries in Chicago by New City News in their end of year edition on Dec 22. Who knew I had competition? I certainly have been at this the longest, since 2003. Also upcoming: Chicago Gallery News will feature Art On Armitage in the Jan-Mar 2011 edition, in an article on alternative spaces.

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