Inspiration can come from anywhere. One person’s trash is another person’s treasure, or in this case, the beginning of a found object assemblage artwork. Eye of the Beholder: The Art of the Found Object is a biennial found object art exhibition now in its 8th year. This exhibition will showcase fine art constructed from ordinary, everyday objects that have been scavenged and repurposed into art by the artist. All original 2D or 3D work following exhibition guidelines is eligible for this exhibition. Please note that art including, but not constructed of found objects, and photographs or paintings of assemblage art or found objects are not eligible for this show. Works selected by the juror will be exhibited in MFA’s Circle Gallery from Jul 26 – Aug 26, 2023. Exhibition Chair: Angela Petruncio. As a scholar of the carnivalesque and a multidisciplinary artist, Dr. Toni-Lee Sangastiano studies the postmodern sideshow’s American and European processional original, and its relevance to contemporary language, aesthetics, and media. She makes visible the people and spaces of the postmodern sideshow, the codes of normality they challenge as social activism onstage, and the circus through contemporary realism and maker technology. As a leading sideshow banner painter and scholar, she produced this early form of advertisement for the last permanent sideshow in Coney Island during the “sideshow Renaissance” of the 1990s. Sangastiano also approaches the circus and the sideshow, two distinct types of performances, through documentary photography, mixed media, and video. She is primarily trained in visual arts, art theory, and aesthetics, and her work engages the analysis of power structures and language. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice in the Art & Art History Department and a Medical Humanities faculty member at Georgetown University. Learn more and see her work at sangastiano.com.
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Introducing Eye of the Beholder: The Art of the Found Object
Juror: Toni-Lee Sangastiano
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