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ODETTA Gallery

Lust for Rust

February 18th – March 8th, 2025

Reception: February 20th, 5:30-8 pm

Atlantic Gallery

Suite 540

547 West 27th Street or 548 West 28th Street

New York NY 10001


A Juried Group Exhibition with one grand prize: One-week solo show at Atlantic Gallery, in NYC’s Chelsea Art District

Juror Ellen Hackl Fagan, Artist, curator, founder of Odetta

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Atlantic Gallery, located in the historic Landmark Arts Building in Chelsea, invites artists to submit work for the upcoming juried show, Lust For Rust.

The seductive surfaces of a rusted door or pile of metal have been a source of inspiration for artists and filmmakers over the course of time. It’s our basic human instinct to elevate the underdog, the abandoned, the neglected, and give them renewed importance. Rust is the most visible result of entropy, yet rust also protects, often described as a sacrificial element in architecture. Rust is poetic, time-worn, and open to interpretation. Rust is impermanent, transient, organic in its beauty, and gritty: think Wabi-Sabi. We are seeking innovative artworks, 2D and 3D, that utilize painting, sculpture, cartooning or graphic novels, collage, and mixed media that communicates your lust for rust.

The juror and curator, Ellen Hackl Fagan, will award one artist a grand-prize of a one-week solo show at Atlantic Gallery at a future date.

A PDF catalog of the exhibition will be available.


Hopeton St.Clair Hibbert
Wise Ole Owl
2020
Photographic print, water color paper, acrylic embellishm

Hopeton St.Clair Hibbert

Wise Ole Owl

2020

Photographic print, watercolor paper, acrylic embellishment

22 x 16 x 3

Christine McDonald_Want Ad 1 (Centennial Rust)
MDF Board &
Centennial Rust (water
color pigment)
32"

Christine McDonald_Want Ad 1 (Centennial Rust)

MDF Board &

Centennial Rust (water

color pigment)

32" x 24" x 0.5"

online catalog exhibition

Stephanie Mesner | Mixtec On Ruffled Platter | 2020 | paint on vintage platter | 12" x 8" x 1"

Stephanie Mesner | Mixtec On Ruffled Platter | 2020 | paint on vintage platter | 12" x 8" x 1" 

Lawrence Dobens | The Inspectors | 1998 | Watercolor on Paper | 29 x 22 x 0

Lawrence Dobens | The Inspectors | 1998 | Watercolor on Paper | 29 x 22 x 0

Samuel Berrigan | Rust 2010 | 2024 | Acrylic on Canvas, Wood Frame | 20 x 20 x 0.5

Samuel Berrigan | Rust 2010 | 2024 | Acrylic on Canvas, Wood Frame | 20 x 20 x 0.5


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