Big Beverage Bark Basket
Artist
John Garrett
(American, born 1950)
Datecirca 1995
Mediumrecycled aluminum drink cans, aluminum flashing, rivets
Dimensions20 1/2 x 21 x 20 3/4 in., 4 lb. (52.1 x 53.3 x 52.7 cm, 1.8 kg)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of John Garrett, 2012
Object number2012.10.1
DescriptionBasket formed of numerous flattened, folded, and riveted beverage cans. Shape is narrower at bottom and flares out at top ending with four points.eMuseum Notes
John Garrett is a leading artist working with “textile technologies” such as basketry, quilting, and crochet but with unconventional materials, including recycled consumer products and metals. Garrett is one of many contemporary artists who repurposes materials to his own ends. He has done this since his art school days at Claremont McKenna College (B.A.) and UCLA (M.A.), where he first studied weaving before turning to experimental techniques and materials with off-the-loom textiles then basketry and eventually to more installation-based work. By folding and piecing recycled aluminum soda cans, there is a commentary on recycling that becomes an undercurrent of this basket.
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