Art From Recycled Materials

"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." - Thomas A. Edison
I am increasingly drawn to the fun and freedom of creating art out of recycled trash.

Recycle Bin Art

School Daze

Dumpster Divers At The Globe Window

Madison Avenue Manikin

Hello?

A collaboration with Rev. Gary Culp
Spiral Created on Recycled Window
from glass found at the 2009 Burning Man Festival

I am a photographer and documentary filmmaker, graphic designer, writer, gallery director and found object artist; for advertising, journalism, PR, theater and television. Most recent exhibit, the 2011 Dysfunctional Furniture Show at City Hall Gallery, Philadelphia, Pa. A member of the Dumpster Divers of Philadelphia, www.dumpsterdivers.org

Readymades

"When art is properly understood we wil be able to paint pictures to cure toothache." - Picasso

Many of the "readymade" photographs and collage shown here follow the Dadaist gestalt of found art.

Asbury Park Graffiti

Pink Ice

Motorcycle Mirror

Ottsville Barn

Philly Collage

Philadelphia Museum of Art Dali Exhibit

Beach Stone

Waves

Sand

Frost

Portraits

"It's you I like, the way you are right now, the way down deep inside you, not the things that hide you, it's you I like." - Fred Rodgers

David Gerbstadt @ Pebble Hill

Rally for Sanity

Rally for Sanity

Rally for Sanity

Landscapes

"Orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow." --Wassily Kandinsky

Dysfunctional Furniture

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