10- “Construct” (detail) - Found wood, steel, steel cable, homemade fasteners, concrete blocks (not pictured) - Feb 2015 (some pieces available) I am fairly critical of this piece, looking back. I am humbled by it. At this point, I was kind of full of myself, trying to do too much at once. I had all of these heady ideas about what it all meant. It was this hanging installation that took up the whole student gallery! I definitely had fun, putting it together, installing it, figuring out where to hang cables, making my own fasteners. So it was a good process, even if not the best product. I present this, even now, because I do love some of the details in it. I like the contrast between materials and surfaces and textures. I also appreciate that this piece represents my current idea of “Deconstructing Reality.” We try to build our own realities, our own sense of self-importance. But in doing so, so much of what we do just reveals our own insecurities. The more we build up, the more we reveal our cracks. White fragility is like that. The more we defend and say, “Hey! I’m not racist!” The more we seem to show off how truly racist we are. I’ve become more aware, lately, about how obvious some things are. We can have an all-white or mostly white school in a diverse community, and we can still try to claim that we aren’t racist. Which is ridiculous. We can move out to the upper class, mostly-white suburbs, in order to “get away from the bad part of town” and still claim that we aren’t racist. Which is ridiculous. That’s where this current project of mine, “Deconstructing Reality,” feels really important to me. It isn’t actually deconstructing anything: it’s recognizing what is already happening, and admitting that we are somewhat out of control.

“Blue Jean Baby” painting by Rika Laser

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AD ART SHOW artist, Mike Goldberg. “ I have long found inspiration in the everyday. The well worn face is what moves me”. You can discover more of Mike Goldberg’s Art on our MvVO ARR gallery via our Mvvoart website (link in bio). #art #artistsoninstagram #artoninstagram #meettheartist #visualart #visualartist #artwork #paintings #adartshow #mvvoart #artcollector #artadvisory #portrait #oilbaronwood #foundwood #foundwoodart #creative #creativedirector #awesome (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzdMNysHDnK/?igshid=ofiecrebv2aa

Surface marks and objects.. found wood and fabricated object, documenting and exploring new work. #surfaces #marks #foundmarks #foundwood #driftwood #foundobjects #fabrications #rustmarks #drawing #arrangement #assemblage #sunbleached #betweenthisandtheother #flotsamandjetsam #textures #tones #weathered #visuallife #visuallanguage #semiotics #contemporarycraft #wabisabi #irishcontemporaryart #stuartcairns #artist #maker #smith #silversmith #sculptural https://www.instagram.com/p/BsVe1QvlTGx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=mazag3faux35

“Mira” #mosaic #art #annemarieprice #mira #stainedglass #contemporaryart #contemporarymosaic #mosaicart #woman #ocean #inspired #CA #huntingtonbeach #foundwood #mosaicportrait #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca5yzRIJzG0/?utm_medium=tumblr

now hanging at #bariii thanks #jerksproductions ! #stitchedpaper on #foundwood #mixedmedia (at Wilmington, Delaware) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNbPZXAHCj0/?igshid=1edua236v9dvz

I painted this live @akonglomerate s event called #motivation #elephants #sun @mikelarrydraw thanks for letting we get involved with this event. Enjoy Japan. #acrylic #foundwood #art #scottbradleyferguson #newyorkcity #brooklyn #secretprojectrobot (at Secret Project Robot)

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9- “Reality Arrangement” - by artist Stephen Yarbrough - plaster, aluminum, pinecone, plastic bag, on found wood, wire, and burlap - Nov 2014 (some pieces available, but no longer available as an ensemble) This was one of my favorite things that came together as an afterthought. Where can we look back and say, “Hey that really came together! I did not expect that. Something outside myself and my control was working there...”? We had basically been experimenting in class with mold making, and for a final project to the semester, the instructor suggested that we make something that could display the pieces. So I made this. What I love about this, is that not only did it seem like something “unplanned,” but the project itself was not even quite that big of a deal in the course of the class. But here, for me, this combination of materials and textures and details, this way of working, this all totally supports my current artistic process. I dismissed this piece, at the time. I made it and forgot about it. It seemed a bit too abstract. I never showed it outside of class. I particularly love the details, the way the materials overlap and contrast, the moments of creativity. So the plastic bag buried in plaster blows me away. I love the pinecones hiding, t. The burlap platform. The rough edges of the found-pieces of subfloor. The little aluminum sculpture in the middle of it all. (One of my favorite little sculptures I made that I never really planned out: it was mostly to experience the process of an aluminum pour.) May we find new life where we least expect it, like a flower, growing up through the cracks.

$100 free vancouver delivery. 26x26" spray paint on wood, entitled "Monochrome Bull 1" I'm making super affordable stencil paintings - they are numbered being reproducible, but quirky especially these first peices as they are on found wood. Email me [email protected] if you want it! Will ship but that cost is added. #spraypaint #bull #painting #yvrart #monochrome #foundwood (at Vancouver, British Columbia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CFkYgVNB0oR/?igshid=1a5ttgo6fkgzu

“Oh Mona” painting by Rika Laser

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“The Muffin Man goes to the forest, and is in awe” - Part of the “The Muffin Man” series - #farrowandballpaint , #foundobjects , #foundnature , and carpet thread on #foundwood (5.75” x 7.40”) - // The beautiful wide world of trees. Even with muffins as good as his, he bows down before the leaves. // - See profile to own a little piece of me ————— Day 362 #yearofdailyart #TheArtOfEverything #usewhatsaroundtomakeart - - - - - - - - - #Foundobjectpainting #foundobjectart #TheMuffinMan #surrealart #outsiderartist #selftaughtartist #foundobjectart #pdxartist #farrowandball #smokegreen #jameswhite (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CD2_3hMh6I1/?igshid=apktjw0d88uh

Here's a little walnut bowl I made using a chunk of firewood. It had some cracks running through the grain that I filled with @starbondadhesives black ca glue. I think it's pretty sweet looking for something destined to be burned. It's not finished, just wet sanded through the grits up to 600. Might throw some oil on it just to keep it from drying out. #woodcraft #walnut #sawdustlife #sawdusttherapy #woodturning #woodturnersofinstagram #foundwood #scrapwood #trashtotreasure #lathework #makers #createeveryday #learnsomethingnew (at Queensbury, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAi9GQJHOfI/?igshid=12b255pa3owi9