From dozens of Chiquita banana labels to toothpaste packaging to color-coded high quality management stickers, Kelly Kozma finds magnificence in on a regular basis ephemera. “Piece by piece, she saves any colourful or textured field that she encounters, regardless that most are anticipated to be discarded after their unique use,” says Paradigm Gallery + Studio, which opens the artist’s solo exhibition Watch Me Backflip this weekend.
Kozma takes an archival and interdisciplinary strategy to working with quite a few discovered supplies, combining quite a lot of media into two-dimensional wall works, expansive textile-inspired assemblages, and voluminous suspended installations. “Watch Me Backflip embraces concepts of reusing materials, interconnectedness, and the importance of the smallest interplay on a a lot bigger setting,” says an exhibition assertion.
“Iguana & Myrrh” and “Magma & Reef” mark the most important compositions Kozma has created. The previous spans 22 ft in circumference and contains greater than 30,000 hand-stitched circles reduce from all kinds of greeting playing cards, discovered packaging, and different colourful supplies. Dedicated to a minimal-waste follow, the artist incorporates scraps and unfastened threads into a variety of accompanying works in Watch Me Backflip.
“As she stitches these lovingly collected items, Kozma creates connections between the folks in her life and the objects she interacts with, inspiring mindfulness towards overconsumption and emotional apathy,” the gallery says.
Watch Me Backflip opens as we speak and continues by means of June 1 in Philadelphia. See extra on the artist’s Instagram.
