Talk the Walk Scavenger Constructs: Site Specific Sculptures

Lecture by Mara Baker

Artists: Mara Baker (Chicago)
Soyen Cho (New York City)
Sally Heller (New Orleans)
Melissa Pokorny (Champaign)
Karen Rifas (Miami)

Scavenger Constructs: Site-Specific Sculptures features five visual artists who re-contextualize everyday objects to create sculptures and installations which reveal the delicate and transient balance between humans and nature, order and chaos. Artists create works that ask viewers to contemplate the surroundings of their everyday life and find potential in common mass-produced objects. Acting as scavengers, they gather and reinterpret objects destined for the landfill and link them together to create new forms which pay homage to nature as a mystical and ever-evolving force.

[C]Spaces is presenting a student response exhibition entitled, Scavenger Response: Satellite Projects which runs September 29 – December 1, 2008 at various locations all over the campus.

Scavenger Constructs is curated by Mark Porter, [C]Spaces Exhibition Coordinator.
Catalogues are available.