37″x72″x1.5″; foil, clear contact paper, theatrical gels, plastic wrap, pipe cleaners,tinsel, glitter, fabric, staples, and other media on panel; 1989-1990. Courtesy of the artist and New Discretions.
COLLAGE ON VIEW
The World Is Garbage
at New Discretions in New York, New York, USA
4 September-18 October 2025
This group exhibition adopts a two-pronged approach in confronting the detritus of culture and mood, unpacking how artists build new worlds. At once material and metaphorical, this exhibition posits trash as both condition and critique. What is thrown away—and what it reveals—becomes a lens through which to see not only contemporary art, but contemporary life. Gathering works by a disparate collection of makers, the exhibition investigates assemblage and the ready-made as both material strategies and as reflections of the darkening collective reality.
3″x2.5″x1″; cigarette box, microcomputers, live data (random miner), wires; 2024. Courtesy of the artist and New Discretions.
The exhibition’s title acknowledges the overflowing realities of waste—environmental, cultural, and emotional—while also suggesting how garbage itself becomes a medium for artistic transformation. Their gestures are not only formal but also psychic: attempts to make meaning from fragments in a time when meaning feels perpetually under threat.
(text adapted from material provided by the gallery)
INFORMATION
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515 West 20th Street
New York, New York 10011 USA
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