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(April 23, 2009, White Plains, NY) --- A junkyard dog made from metal rebar, scrunched steel oil drums, a huge slab of cherry wood reaching nine feet into the air, whimsical mechanical contraptions, and bird nests perched on a tower of wooden pallets, are just a few of the beguiling pieces that make up RUBBISH! Art and the Ecosystem!.

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Upon my first visit to the Christopher Art Gallery at Prairie State College, I was totally amazed and pleasantly surprised by the wonderful art that was to be seen there. The theme of the show, encaustic, a rich vibrant medium of hot wax and pigment that attacks ones senses and makes you want to touch its surface textures and deep crevices.

When you enter the gallery your eye is treated to a rich expanse of color and textures. The works of Eileen Goldberg are the first to transport you to a lush garden where time seems to slip away and fantasy begins. Entitled "Tea House" this series of three paintings shows a repetition of scuptural pattern and color drawing you deep within.

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As you turn you find the mixed media works of Sharon Kyle Kuhn, " A Waxen Simulcra of Displaced Workers" , "Nolens Volens ", and "Data Aggregation". Her manipulations of color, discarded fastners and waxen imagery, jut forth from the canvas and pull you in causing you to wonder where have they been and what have they done?

A Waxen Simulcra of Displaced Workers

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