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 colorful or textured box that she encounters, even though most are expected to be discarded after their original use,” says Paradigm Gallery + Studio, which opens the artist’s solo exhibition Watch Me Backflip this weekend.
Kozma takes an archival and interdisciplinary method 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 ideas of reusing material, interconnectedness, and the significance of the smallest interaction on a much larger environment,” says an exhibition assertion.
“Iguana & Myrrh” and “Magma & Reef” mark the biggest compositions Kozma has created. The previous spans 22 ft in circumference and contains greater than 30,000 hand-stitched circles minimize 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 pieces, Kozma creates connections between the people in her life and the objects she interacts with, inspiring mindfulness against overconsumption and emotional apathy,” the gallery says.
Watch Me Backflip opens right this moment and continues via June 1 in Philadelphia. See extra on the artist’s Instagram.
