Every day we are surrounded by objects we have relationships with—physical relationships, psychological relationships, sensory relationships. These objects carry a history and a set of meanings that we sometimes share collectively and at other times are extremely personal to our individual experiences. Found-object artists investigate these relationships through their work, exploring the inherent beauty in these objects and how they can have significance shared by the collective memory of our culture/society.

The formal history of found-object art can be traced back to the Dada and Surrealist movement of the 1910s-1940s, characterized by the reuse of commercial imagery and appropriation of cultural iconography of the Pop artists, and used more recently by such artists as Carl Andre, Damien Hirst, Sarah Lucas, and Willie Cole.

Participating Artists:

Jenn Adams, Peter Allen, Lydia Baldassarre, A Bascove, Bette Blank, Phil Cantor, Chris Combs, Harriet Finck, Jodie Fink, Andie Freeman, Jonathan Frey, Yolanda Fundora, Kyla Gilbert, Emily Gilman Beezley, Elizabeth Ginsberg, Audrey Goldstein, Michelle Harpster, Alice Harrison, Michal Hersman, Gina Kingsley, Keith Kleinick, Joan Knauer, Madeline LeBarron, Paul Leibow, Karen Luknis, Gabrielle Lundy, Modern Fossils, Brian J. McCormack, Phyllis & Victor Merriam, Courtney Novak, Arthur Paxton, Betti Pettinati-Longinotti, Katharine Philip, Taryn Pizza, Jennifer Place, Erica Puckett, Tongji Qian, Jack Quinn, Theda Sandiford, Sara Sandler, R Schwartz, Danielle Scott, Michael Sherman, Maxine Silverman, Kasia Skorynkiewicz, Caren Sommer-Lazar, Linda Steinhardt Majzner, Nette Forné Thomas, Peter Tilgner, Stephanie Todhunter, Nikki Vismara, Linda Vonderschmidt-LaStella, Amy Wolfe