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The galleries shown at the left-hand side of this page
are as follows:
ARTISTS
This gallery displays the works by artists
that have contributed to different Oil Drum Art projects. They are
listed by name in alphabetical order as well as specific information about
their beliefs and contact information.
ENVIRONMENTAL
Artists express
their concern about the impact of fossil fuels on the planet and provoke
viewers at Oil Drum Art exhibitions to reevaluate their addiction to oil
products and modify their irresponsible consumption. The planet is
at risk and new thinking is needed to find ways for sustainable solutions
that will help avert a global meltdown of our natural resources.
GEOPOLITICAL
The possessing or controlling
of oil has been a defining policy objective of the 20th century community
of nations. The oil drum contains the essential energy of our world, without
which our modern civilization could not exist. The drum container in its
vast simplicity as a symbol common to all men, evokes every one of the
forces, greed, hope, peace and havoc that have influenced mankind for a
century or more.
As a powerful metaphor for oil the metal drums reflect political
implications and divisiveness generated throughout the world.
The diminishing resources places greater pressure on industrial nations
to control available oil until an alternative energy source is implemented.
AESTHETIC
The oil drum has been
employed as an aesthetic vessel by John Chamberlain, Christo and Jeanne-Claude,
Forrest Myers, and other renowned artists who have seen the possibilities
of the metal container as a symbol or as a point of artistic departure.
It is a 3-dimensional “canvas” that conjures up a variety of meaningful
images.
The oil drum when used as a means of expression will remind the
world that art has a place, not just in museums, but wherever it may
be seen and pondered, and not just as art, but as philosophy whose power
will rise from the making of art from a common symbol that is large enough
to embrace it.
ENERGY
The energy crisis
is crippling our global economies and creating tensions between nations
as they seek to control oil that is becoming a finite commodity.
Finding alternative energy solutions are paramount in today’s world and
drum artists are helping to raise awareness through their artworks.
WORLD ECONOMY
Oil
Drum Art wants to raise people’s consciousness about what oil is doing
to their planet and their economy. America’s addiction to oil has produced
two wars and is bankrupting the nation. Americans cannot continue
to be complacent about rising oil costs and to be irresponsible about
excessive energy-consumption.
MEDIA
During an exhibition
in DUMBO, Brooklyn, Oil Drum Art was invited to appear on the CBS Early
Show during Earth Day Week because of its environmental content. A dozen
artworks were displayed on the CBS Plaza and the artists were interviewed.
Then in September the Commemorative 9/11 Oil Drum Art Exhibition at the
Barnum Museum was featured on the New York Fox-5 TV News.
In 2009 Oil Drum Art and its president
and founder, Jack Lardis, received the 2009 Arts Council of Greater New
Haven Arts Award for breakthrough and innovative art.
NEXT
Oil Drum Art and the
Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery (LTMH) at Madison Avenue and East
78th Street in New York City will present an exhibition of artworks created
from oil drums. Invited to the exhibition will be renowned artists
who have drums artworks in their body of work. Also included in the
exhibit will be national and international artists from previous LTMH and
Hartford exhibitions.
Oil Drum Art is negotiating with art galleries in The Netherlands
and Sweden for an exhibition in 2012.
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