WASTED

Resobox Gallery proudly presents political works from Alex White Mazzarella, artist and

Founder of global social art initiative Artefacting. A collection of 17 mixed media paintings and a short video explore WASTED as a landscape, way of life, and social condition.

Large canvases collage lottery tickets, food packaging, and images of nature with colorful paint and pastel to create stories. Portraits of oil drums convert waste into aesthetic loot. Shadow populations are surveyed behind bars and people combine with abandoned rubber tires in metamorphosis. And in the 2011 performance video “Computer Man” the consumer awakes in a far distant land to discover the world that processes and recycles his composition.

The work was created during residencies in Brooklyn, Mumbai and Detroit.

Exhibition visitors will be able to define WASTED for themselves and later see the artist turn the
discourse into a collaborative artwork.

What is wasted? What is not wasted? What can’t be wasted? Why do we get wasted?

Civic. Mental. Material

WASTED In Context

I’ve been staring at this computer screen for days but now, finally, I can go out and get WASTED

Nearly $6 billion spent for the 2012 presidential campaign. Economic production or WASTED

Our Global cities and their material incarnations swell and multiply. But how fast can we run to avoid getting WASTED

The Kyoto Protocol. A chance to curb climate change WASTED?

The waste management facility in Long Island City is expanding to process up to 2,100 tons of waste a day. WASTED