THE RUSTY STUFF

Assemblage by Benita Murray. Antique Tin exhibition at the east Gippsland Art Gallery, here.


I never get tired of the rusty stuff ! Benita Murray's work caught my attention after I had been browsing through many images of heavy masculine sculpture. Her work is more feminine than most of the metal art one sees, probably because she incorporates the heart motif which does seem to 'soften' many of her pieces.

Another assemblage from Benita Murray's exhibition , Antique Tin.

Benita creates assemblages using rusted sheet iron, tin fragments, steel mesh and twisted cables and rods.

"To be honest, I fell into using the rusty stuff because I love hanging around old farm tips: the ones with great piles of rusted metal built up over generations’ - Benita Murray

Scrap metal architectural panels by John Unger. Website, here.

Junk wall by Schultz. See here.

Queen of Heaven (Shrine to La Virgen de Guadalupe) by Hope Swann. Website here.

Liberated Flow by Frank Strunk. Website here.


Inner City Found Object Assemblage by Don Pezzano. See Don's Etsy Shop here and blog here.

Rusty. Photograph by Jurek Durczak. Flickr photostream here.

Rusty Sculpture. Photo taken by Steve Benway. Flickr photostream here.

Pipe Vase with insulator flowers by PaulaArt. See Paula's Etsy Shop here and blog here.

Fish sculpture by Murray Ambler. See Sculpture on the Edge, here.

SPOT THE ZEBRA

Territory. Fiber art and mixed media by Jette Clover. See Here.

Well not really. I came across a post on Art Biz Blog about coming up with more interesting exhibition themes. Since this post is about black and white stripes, zebras came to mind......So the title stays until someone comes up with a better one. What I love about black and white stripes in these artworks is the way they sing in contrast to the other colours.

Passages. Fiber art and mixed media by Jette Clover.

While rebuilding her home in Florida, Jette Clover used the rusty objects she found in the ground, to rust fabric.  Thus began the Rust Series. These pieces need to be enlarged to see the intricate stitching. Click Here to take a closer look. 

"I like the color rust, and I like using the unpredictable designs that occur during the rusting process. It makes me let go of some of the control of art making. I react to the rust stains with painting, printing and stitching my own signs and lettering on the fabric. It is like being involved in an exchange of mark making with nature." - Jette Clover

Looking Glass by Bill Gingles. See more of Bill's work Here.

Tarn by Bill Gingles

See more work by Michael Shemchuk, Here.

Wiggleroom by Michael Shemchuk.

One 2 step by Michael Shemchuk.

The piece above is by Mary Buek. See Mary Buek's Flickr Photostream, Here and blog Here.

Panel by Bill Fisher at the Jane Sauer Gallery, Here.

Experiment by Robyn Gordon

Zebrawald II. See les surfaces Flickr photostream, Here.

SHADES OF RUST

Quintessence by Bill Gingles

I recently discovered Bill Gingles work. Many of his latest pieces are painted with a rich rusty palette. See more here.

Crescendo by Bill Gingles


"In the studio each painting is a starting over, a tacit recognition that after thirty plus years of painting I still don’t know how to make a painting (which is different from knowing how to paint). I just know that I can. Each time the task is to find a way to give myself to the painting so the magic can happen and the painting can stir to life.

Each new painting reveals its own tendencies and surprises as it comes to life. Rather like children from the same parents, they are each at once individuals and siblings. It is because the life they share with each other is the life they drew from me." -- Bill Gingles


Symphony in Red by Bill Gingles



Seventh Autumn by Bill Gingles

Has it always been this way or is it only in the last year or two that people have been going nuts over rusted metal in their art?



Rusty sculpture. Photo taken by Michael Pinto. See blog here.

I'm just as enamoured with paintings using a rusty palette as I am with rusted sculpture.

Absence of Black by David Maple . See more here
A painting I have loved ever since Mary Ann posted about it on her blog is Ancient Dashboard ..... though I get the feeling she doesn't love it as much as I do.

Ancient Dashboard by Mary Ann

Collage Painting by Fran Skiles

"I call these collage paintings, “skins”. They are rigid, yet flexible layered constructions of paper, cloth, paint, gesso, paint, ink and pencil held together with stitching, embroidery, and medium. My personal photography plays a part in the content and design of the work. I use photography to jump- start the collage, and many times the initial photography is destroyed in this layering process; only to reemerge later". -- Fran Skiles

See website here.

Trilogy by Seth Apter. Find more of Seth's work at The Altered Page, here.
Frontier V by Rosalie Gascoigne

Enduring Power by Linda Stilley. Website here.