the Mona Lisa Project
Faith Gay
Faith Gay explores themes of color and pattern. Utilizing plastic beads which have been arranged in vibrant color configurations or into Rorschach-like abstractions, Gay then melts them and pins them to the wall. In addition, her transparent resin-coated dot-grid works bring to mind the op art movement popularized in the 60 ’s. Gay received her BFA from The University of Texas in 1995 and has exhibited widely in the state.
For a long time I've been a pop-fusion recyclist – reclaiming cast-off materials to repurpose and rework culturally, graphically, and functionally. Cardboard, junkmail, Betty Crocker recipe cards, microwave cookbooks, bills, polyester ribbon, duct tape, and floppy disk organizers, fill and ornament my sculpture. This accumulation of life’s everyday everything, the potpourri of instant obsolescence, is transformed back into sculptural relevance (magic). Using a layering process of tape and paper, a unique and organic form develops – recycling and reinterpreting civilized waste back to life. It's primitive. It's trash imitating art imitating nature. It's a rainbow made of tape.
© Rino Pizzi 2010