Fantastic Plastic! Head over to Red Hook and check out a fabulous new exhibit, Through a Plastic Lens, by Brooklyn-based artist Lenore Solmo.
Presented in three sections or "environmental moments" – "Garden," "Ocean," and "City" – the exhibit showcases incredible works made with found objects including plastic bottles/caps/lids, produce netting, and vintage beads. Solmo transforms the discarded materials into jewel-toned flowers, whimsical mushrooms, iridescent jellyfish, and an urban dreamscape.
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Solmo uses heat to reshape plastic from empty beverage bottles into flower petals, foliage, coral, or spindly tentacles. She spray paints honey bears and mini liquor bottles to create bronze pendants and majestic spires. Mesh vegetable bags become spun gold and gossamer veils.
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Solmo previously worked in fashion accessory design. In 2020, at the height of the pandemic, she left her decades-long career for a more meaningful creative outlet pursuing art full time. A self-taught artist, she is dedicated to doing her part to reduce urban waste by repurposing objects found on the streets and transforming them into treasures. The metamorphoses of these everyday objects are remarkable!
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Lenore Solmo
Through a Plastic Lens
Up-Cycled Art Made From What We Leave Behind
Compère Collective, 351 Van Brunt, Red Hook Brooklyn
On view through April 30
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