March 2023 // CP Project Space, New York, NYRay Baker
Corrie Beth Hogg
Stan Linder
Brett Park
Elise Wulff
Link to press release and curatorial statement
This exhibition also featured a collaborative photo project. I asked friends, family and aquaintences to collect photos of cardboard encounters. I think we discovered that cardboard was all over new york city, all the time, especially on recycling day. The photos were printed and hung in a expansive collage woven throughout the exhibition space. Visitors were invited to select and place photos at their discretion. You can view the online photo collection here.
cardboard: a meditation on medium
Wall Text:
In the face of our shared climate crisis, using recycled materials has become a
priority for artists looking to reduce the toxicity of their creative production. With
an average recycling rate of 70%, cardboard is an excellent option for promoting
ecological and financial sustainability.
Artists gathered for this exhibition transform cardboard from a flat,
two-dimensional surface into sculptural, dynamic forms. Working at the
crossroads between craft and fine art, these artists tame the tensions emerging
from this fraught junction to make innovative and thoughtful art objects from
cardboard.
Here, cardboard graduates from serving as substrate and is elevated into
subject. The graduation occurs as the artists bend, twist, cut, curve, spiral, glue,
and sew the cardboard, unleashing newfound textures and shapes.
The artworks in concert highlight the material's versatility, moving from sculpture
to wearable clothing to vases and wall hangings, creating space for visitors to
meditate on its possibilities.