Green Art With 100% Dumpster Diving Imagination

Where there's a will to create something of unconventional beauty, there's a way...even if you don't currently have the fiscal means.

Recession Art is a New York City based organization that offers up and coming artists a venue in which to showcase their works while also offering the public approachable pieces that still fit into today's compromised budgets.

One recently featured artist may not yet be a common household name, but at least in green-minded circles he soon will be with his penchant for incorporating entirely recycled materials into his art-worthy pieces.

Sculptor Ian Trask -- who was formerly a scientific researcher -- reworks the waste inherant within our society into adventurous new incarnations that beckon us to get lost in a new world of oddly familiar, frenetic beauty.

His compositions showcase the discarded bits and pieces that he rescues from his company's dumpster, including linen, cardboard, moulding and plexiglass.

Through his efforts, he hopes to shine light on the fact that there is already more than enough "stuff" currently in circulation and that we can all be artists in our own right by creatively reconsidering, salvaging and reinventing the materials we are normally inclined to discard. 

Trask admits that 100% of the art supplies he uses are free since he rescues them from garbage pails and dumpsters...and yet that's part of the great appeal of his collection.

As he has explained in the past, this conscious choice "reduces the material demand he places on his own immediate environment while also suggesting to his viewers the importance of redefining how we look at our waste."

The result is a texturally diverse array of works that run the gamut from entire yarn-woven installations to curiously quirky bent silverware structures and other scenes that make you stop, pause, explore and utter a silent knowing, "Ohhhhhhhh, so THAT'S what that is...."