Joe Ryckebosch: New Formations Over Old Horizons
January 10 – February 25th
Opening Reception at SCRAP, January 13th, 5-7pm
Re:Vision Gallery is pleased to present the mixed media collage work of Portland-based artist Joe Ryckebosch. Utilizing vintage design tape in bright colors, Ryckebosch superimposes geometric patterns over found images. The printed images that inspire Ryckebosch’s work result from myriad forays into thrift stores, scrap yards, re-use centers and back alleys. By reclaiming and re-forming, Ryckebosch has enlivened cultural ephemera on the verge of being forgotten, safely resurrecting them from the shadows back into the light of attention. The applied colored tape is the artist’s tool for re-interpreting the original subject of these once-discarded images. The color and patterns that emerge may have always been there, but have never been noticed until emphasized through the fresh perspective of these works. The juxtaposition of form and color provides a subtle and contemplative commentary on the ways humans see pattern in the natural world.
Re:Vision Gallery
SCRAP Creative Reuse Center
2915 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Daily 10am-6pm
http://scrapaction.org/creative-reuse-center/art-gallery/
About Re:Vision Gallery
Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP is dedicated to exhibiting the work of innovative artists in the Pacific NW, who create work made from at least 75% recycled/reused or reclaimed material. Located adjacent to the SCRAP Creative Reuse Store, the Re:Vision Gallery hosts monthly and bi-monthly exhibits of individual artists and groups of artists.
About SCRAP
SCRAP is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that inspires creative reuse and environmentally sustainable behavior by providing educational programs and affordable materials to the community. Since its founding in 1999, SCRAP has become a vital resource and source of inspiration to the Portland community in its effort to make art and creativity available to all.
SCRAP takes donations of clean, reusable creative materials from businesses and individuals, and then offers them to the public at affordable prices. In the last year, SCRAP diverted 94 tons of material from the waste stream.
The SCRAP Creative Reuse Center consists of a retail store open to the public, which offers an ever-changing variety of materials suitable for art, craft and school use, a public workshop room, a boutique with local items made of reclaimed materials and a fine arts gallery.