Conversation with Bryan Northup

SALVAGE

Please enjoy my conversation with Bryan Northup. Bryan’s work responds to human interactions with a uniquely modern material - plastic. Using collected single-use plastic and found objects from the waste stream as art medium, he attempts to blur the lines between appetizing consumables, biological dissection and everyday "waste", to explore layers of meaning in an age where toxic materials of our own creation have saturated our environment and penetrated our species—both biologically and culturally—to the cellular level.

Bryan reacts to modern consumer-saturated society, and processes his own environmental/climate despair by drawing attention to the role plastic production and dependence plays in the global climate crisis. Bryan’s sculpture and wall relief works depict abstracted glimpses of microscopic cell interactions, molecular-level contamination, a cross-section of interconnectedness, in an attempt to imagine how this human-made material interacts with living systems at the deepest level.

https://www.bryannorthup.com/

http://www.alexandlee.com/

https://www.oakparkartleague.org/

International Museum of Surgical Science https://imss.org/

https://southbendart.org/

https://www.artprize.org/

Trashion Revolution https://triveniinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/TrashionRevolution2024PressRelease.pdf

Museum of Science and Industry https://www.msichicago.org/

https://care.artinoddplaces.org/

https://www.postcards.visualaids.org/

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