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Scott Wolniak

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Colorful cut paper shapes with zig-zag edges form are bundled in sculpture hung on a wall

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
Colorful paper cut into zig-zags form a firework shaped sculpture hung on a wall

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
Colorful paper and objects are bound together and hung from a ceiling

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago
A sculpture in the shape of a plant is made out of various colorful newspaper ads.

Scott Wolniak, Weeds, 2002–04. Junk mail, trash, paper, wire, tape, and glue; overall dimensions variable

Courtesy of Mixture Contemporary, Houston, and Bodybuilder and Sportsman Gallery, Chicago

About

Through the use of video, drawing, and sculpture, Scott Wolniak investigates visual systems and patterns that appear in our everyday environment. For this exhibition, the artist creates a “graphically patterned meadow” by collecting items such as wrappers, packaging, and straws found on the street as he walks from his West Side home to the MCA. Wolniak then reconfigures this debris into the forms of vegetation and weeds, drawing a connection between unwanted plants and the proliferation of postconsumer matter in our physical and psychological environments.

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