Please enjoy my conversation with Niki Lederer. Discarded and found objects are Niki’s starting point. She makes sculptures from repurposed umbrellas and post-consumer plastic that she harvests from curbside recycling, garbage cans and the street. Niki finds the colors intoxicating, and can’t resist collecting them. The sheer volume of recyclables and broken umbrellas creates an endless and overwhelming supply of material. Back in the studio Niki processes her finds by thoroughly cleaning them and removing all branding on the bottles and armatures from the umbrellas. Then she dissects these materials so that she can reconfigure them to make sculptures.

https://nikilederer.com/ 

https://sva.edu/events/plasticulture 

https://gagosian.com/artists/jeff-wall/

https://hunter.cuny.edu/

https://gagosian.com/artists/nancy-rubins/

https://www.artanddesignhs.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_Sugar_Refinery

https://www.anthonycaro.org/

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