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Repurposed/Recycled Art Show

THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- On Friday, March 6, 2009 Frame Craft Lampros Gallery will be hosting it’s First Annual Repurposed/Recycled Material Art Show. Several artists will have their sculptures and wall art created using recycled or repurposed materials on display and will be on hand to answer any questions or just to talk about their art.

One of the beautiful and unique pieces at the show will be auctioned (via silent auction) and all proceeds will be donated to The Woodlands GREEN. The Woodlands GREEN will have a representative at the event and information available about the great work they do for our community and our environment.

There will also be an area set aside with bits and pieces for patrons to “play” with and possibly create their own piece of art.

Featured Artists
Susan Schneider has always been fascinated by the beautiful prismatic colors of CDs and DVDs. She feels that working in repurposed art provides a wonderful opportunity to explore the aesthetic use of CDs and other refractive elements. She chose a fish first and continues to work with animals because they are often the first ones impacted by waste and problems of pollution. Schneider likes the irony of producing an artwork from the same materials that threaten the environment of her subjects. She finds most of the materials for her “subjects” at the recycling center on Budde Road. Usually her pieces of art are at the recycling center for others to see, enjoy and just maybe think of another use for all those items that are either thrown away or hopefully recycled.

Terry Jones, a born and raised Texan, living in Jewett, Texas, who makes his sculptures from found objects will also be at the event. Jones learned how to weld as an iron worker and started letting his imagination turn found objects into art. For one of his amazing sculptures he teamed up with The League City Police and Butler Longhorn Museum to create a life-sized longhorn sculpture using confiscated guns and knives mixed with other unique metal objects to turn what was once negative into a positive.

Zena Stetka Howe came to Texas by way of Pilzen, Czechoslovakia. Although she is proficient in painting, printmaking and photography, her passion is assemblage. A pair of worn out rubber boots, a broken shovel or old car parts are the kind of things that are given new life in her studio. They are metaphors for the second chance she believes we all deserve.

When asked to explain the reaction people have to this type of art, she said "People are amazed when they see something simple, such as an old part of machinery or a piece of driftwood or beautiful stones placed into an artwork. They are shocked at the beauty of everyday things. I believe that is the responsibility of an artist to share their talent and to enrich and educate through their art. It is a great accomplishment when this happens."

When Joyce Harlow was a child she collected discarded glass, metal and wood from a junkyard on her grandfather’s farm in Sunfish, Kentucky. This refuse became the fabric of an imaginary play world and influenced her vision as an adult artist. Returning to her childhood, Harlow creates “Little People” from fired heads of clay that are combined with rusted metal and primitive wood. These clay/assemblage sculptures comprise her current body of work.

The Repurposed/Recycled Material Art Show will start at 6 p.m. on Friday, March 6, at 26106 Oak Ridge Drive, The Woodlands, TX 77380 (@ the intersection of Nursery Road). Refreshments will be served. For more information, please contact Vicki Lampros at 281-367-6526 or visit Frame Craft Lampros Gallery’s Web site at the link below.

About Frame Craft Lampros Gallery
Frame Craft Lampros Gallery has been in business in the Woodlands since 1985. Owner, Peter Lampros has been hosting First Friday events at his gallery as a way of introducing artists and their art to the community since the beginning.