I'd have to agree: «[Austin Thomas's exhibition «Utopic»] embraces an anti-art aesthetic that is so minimal and non-invasive that it makes [Richard] Tuttle's assemblages of cardboard and
wood scraps look positively baroque» — Thomas Micchelli on «Utopic,» Austin Thomas's solo show at Hansel & Gretel Picture Garden
Not exact matches
His smaller works
look like failed attempts to recycle
wood scraps as picture frames, and indeed an early listing called his latest show «The New Picture Plane.»
Though cast in bronze, it
looks like a carved piece of
scrap wood, left over from a safety barrier.
In the strongest work in this show, what
look like cut - up
scraps of painted canvas are really thick swaths of acrylic paint, peeled off a flat surface and draped over bare
wood stretcher bars leaning against the wall.
Using
scrap pieces of
wood, silken textile
scraps, and diminutive, painted pieces of furniture and art that
looks like it's dollhouse - ready, he intertwines these fanciful structures in ordinary plants that we usually wouldn't notice, punctuating them with chimney flues, woodstoves and windmills.
INTCO purchases EPS
scrap and recycles it into picture frames and decorative moldings that
look like rare and precious
woods.
Today I picked up some of these reclaimed barn
wood scraps, starting putting them next to each other, rearranging until I liked the
look, and decided that it would make a pretty cool piece of art.
Maybe take some
scrap wood and paint with the color of the mantel and see how it
looks next to the brick before you brush off any of the wash.
I used a piece of
scrap wood to make it
look like the windows are actually taller than they really are, and so it doesn't just
look like two blinds mounted to the wall anymore...
I think your effect is awesome — it's exactly what I'm
looking for — but I don't have a
scrap of my project
wood to test it on, so I need to be careful!
From keeping your cutting boards from
looking like a pile of
scrap wood to creating a cozy little space for your cleaning supplies to hang from, your use of tension rods in your kitchen is limited only by your own imagination.
The best way to find out what it will
look like is to experiment with some craft paints or sample pots of paint in the color you want on
scrap wood to see the different effects you can achieve by using glazing liquid.
Once I liked the
look, I flipped them over and used the 1/2» x 18» w
scrap wood to adhere the pieces together.
I would start to practice on
scrap wood to come up with the
look you are after.
Throw in a beat up old coffee table constructed from
scrap wood and an iron gate, and you will have firmly established a junking good
look of your own.