RECYCLED, REINVENTED - From the Artists of SCRAP

at the Gallery at Ruth's Table in the

Bethany Center located at 580 Capp Street, San Francisco

Exhibition dates: September 1, 2010 - January 5, 2011

View the works of a group of talented artists who dedicate a portion of their time and energy as staff members at SCRAP. The exhibit shows how the SCRAP environment shapes us and helps the communities we live in. Curated by Robert Flynn Johnson, curator emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

Exhibiting artists:

Ellen Felcher Burns
Stacey M. Carter
Air Feller
Jake David Lindsay-Ceniceros
Jennifer Morningstar
Sandra Murray
Jeff Rahuba
Lisa Ryan
Jane Schafgans
Kenan Shapero
Ute Zaunbauer

About the Exhibition:

This exhibition showcases the works of a group of talented artists that dedicate a portion of their time and energy as staff members at SCRAP.

Working at SCRAP requires artistic talent and vision, paired with the visual and mental ability to decipher, break down and organize a seemingly infinite stream of materials, continually adapting to its variety. This brainteaser challenges the mind to make creative decisions quickly and constantly. After absorbing and reacting to the SCRAP work environment, these artists leave and engage in their individual creative processes. The resulting works of art explore the concepts of inevitability, disconnection, reinvention and re-distribution. These works are a collective demonstration of how the SCRAP environment shapes us and helps the communities we live in.

SCRAP, Scroungers’ Center for Reusable Art Parts, is the oldest non-profit creative reuse center in the San Francisco Bay Area. As the original source of reusable supplies to schools and nonprofits, SCRAP breathes new life into old objects and reduces waste by diverting over 200 tons of materials that would otherwise go to landfill every year.

For artists, writers and actors, working at SCRAP can offer the scheduling flexibility necessary to balance employment with their creative pursuits. Equally important is the constant visual and tactile stimulation these artists experience while handling, assessing and organizing the never-ending flow of donated materials that pass through SCRAP, and that will ultimately be reinvented or repurposed as they pass into new hands.

Guest Curator:
Robert Flynn Johnson
Curator Emeritus Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco