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Betsy Youngquist

A collector and crafter. Her sculptures are collages built with her vast collection of found objects and beads. She sells much of her work on Etsy and has been feature in the American Visionary Museum in Baltimore

She has written on her Etsy page:

"Dear Friends, the power of art to heal, transform, process, and unite is a profound tool that we all share. During this time of uncertainty, our creative selves can help guide us through the fear that is permeating so many aspects of our lives."

https://byart.com/

https://www.etsy.com/shop/betsyyoungquist?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=859236748

Song Dong

Song Dong is a Chinese artist who is often described as a practitioner of conceptual art, focusing on ideas as much as physical materials. He was born in 1966 during the Cultural Revolution and lived through the turmoil that accompanied the development of modern China. He worked as a painter until the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, following which he switched to performance, video and photography after a hiatus of several years.

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/960

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_Not

Mark Dion

Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. “The job of the artist,” he says, “is to go against the grain of dominant culture, to challenge perception and convention.” Appropriating archaeological and other scientific methods of collecting, ordering, and exhibiting objects, Dion creates works that question the distinctions between “objective” (“rational”) scientific methods and “subjective” (“irrational”) influences.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Dion

https://www.artsy.net/artist/mark-dion

Yuji Agematsu

Originally from Japan, but moved to New York City in 1980. Agematsu's work is a collection found desirble debris from the streets of New York. He finds these things on his daily walk around the town. He collects old cigarettes sleeves and use them to hold his findings for the day. Along with with logging in a notebook what time he found the object and where exactly it was located. Then later uses drops of resin to secure the items in the wrapper. Which has create these capsulation sculptures of time. A cutator for one of his show called his work “a daily art practice, personal ritual, and way of marking time on earth.” He is inspired by the ideas of the evolution of the city and consumerism.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3062176/the-delightfully-obsessive-collections-of-modern-artists

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/21/marking-time-with-yuji-agematsu

Ydessa Hendeles

“Partners (The Teddy Bear Project),” apart of the larger exhitbtion held at New Museum. Where Hendeles work was in a two-room installation. This work is a collection of more than three thousand black-and-white photographs that include the presence of a Teddy bear. Hendeles was inspired by her fascinated with photos of people with teddy bears throughout history. She randomly found on Ebay one day family pictures of people with teddy bears and then through more research found more and more. She gone on to find pictures of teddy bears in wedding photos, funerals, sports, and a parallel between histocial events like WWII and the visual of teddy bears in family photos then.

https://www.fastcompany.com/3062176/the-delightfully-obsessive-collections-of-modern-artists

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-piercing-view-of-the-twentieth-century-through-the-eyes-of-the-teddy-bear

Nari Ward

Stroller Installation is called "Amazing Grace"

Based in New York City, Nari goes through New York collecting items from strollers, shoelaces, bats, and other found objects that confronts social and political issues that is based around race and poverty.

Liz Ensz

LIZ ENSZ was born in Minnesota to a resourceful family of penny-savers, metal scrappers, and curators of cast-offs. Ensz received a BFA in Fiber from the Maryland Institute College of Art (2005), and an MFA in Fiber and Material Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2013). At the heart of their practice lies a determined material engagement, scavenger impulse, and a sincere hope for the rethinking of the valuation of people, resources, the environment, and living things.

sites.google.com/view/liz-ensz/liz-ensz?authuser=0

Kevin Beasley

Using polyurethane foam and resin to give these objects their own solidity and form, Beasley molds them into wall assemblages and standalone sculptures. T-shirts, colorful house dresses, and durags take their own haunting shape, referencing the bodies that may have once inhabited them. These items weave together Beasley’s own memories and experiences, along with historical and cultural references, in order to examine the role of power and race in American society.

https://art21.org/watch/new-york-close-up/kevin-beasleys-raw-materials/

Christian Boltanski

Since the late 1960s, Christian Boltanski has worked with [materials] collected from ordinary and often ephemeral sources, endowing the commonplace with significance. Boltanski seeks to create an art that is indistinguishable from life and has said, “The fascinating moment for me is when the spectator hasn’t registered the art connection, and the longer I can delay this association the better.”¹ By appropriating mementos of other people’s lives and placing them in an art context, Boltanski explores the power of photography to transcend individual identity and to function instead as a witness to collective rituals and shared cultural memories.

Jane Perkins

"I am a 're-maker', taking inspiration from found objects and working them into something new.

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