I have been getting some grief over my comment about GREEN Art. I am not against recycling or "re-purposing" old stuff. I have been doing that all my life. Please take your beer bottles to the recycling center, plastic and old clothes in to Good Will. I just don't want it to be made into an art object for it's own purpose. The language is changing as it always does. "RE-purposing" bugs me. Can't you just use an old piece of furniture as something else without the term. Like: window panes for a desk or coffee table just because it is a great new piece. Does it have to be labeled?
When an artist grabs something that is red because she needs that color and it happens to be old and useless and then sticks it into her painting and it is the red object that you see working with the composition....then I like that. If the red thing is a recognizable thing and has nothing to do with what the painting is about and all you see is a catchup bottle, then Green Art Sucks. It becomes the propaganda of the 21st century.
