Charlotte and I wandered all over lower Manhattan yesterday and on our way to the gym at Astor Place we came upon Gallery 151 on Bowery, which has an exhibit in it I’d been meaning to check out called, Trashion. In the windows I’d seen these amazing dome-y colorful plastic works and wanted to know who had made them, it was Dan Walker.
Turns out, as the name of the exhibit implies, they’re all made out of discarded items, which reminds me of a class I took when I was younger called, “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure.” Turns out though that Dan comes out of the toy industry professionally so he has seen the transient properties of toys up close.
The coolest piece of his works is how their color dictates where in the work they end up — they’re gradated in color and, though it seems somewhat impossible, Dan says he does nothing to adjust the tones that the plastics are.
Dan calls these works chromo-assemblage and I’m so glad he has a website as I knew taking pics wouldn’t capture them well. Interestingly these, to me, were the most exciting pieces in the whole show — the other works looked like recycled trash, not like something new and unique. I enjoyed the large scale rust paintings but Dan was the highlight! I do like the concept behind the exhibit though — call it smart marketing if you will, however, the show was put together by the Urban Green Initiative, which is sponsored by a new luxury condominium building going up in the East Village.
What I noticed too was that almost every work had pieces of plastic guitars in them, who knew they made them in so many colors. I can’t help but wonder how Dan cleans the pieces up pre-assembly — so many toys are covered in stickers and hardware it seems.
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