Kelly Jazvac
Plastiglomerate
Kelly Jazvac, Plastiglomerate, 2015. Geological samples of stones created through the sedimentation of melted plastic and natural materials such as coral, sand, wood and volcanic rock.
Plastiglomerate is a relatively new type of stone co-discovered by Jazvac, geologist Patricia Corcoran, and oceanographer Charles Moore, created through the sedimentation of melted plastic and natural materials such as coral, sand, wood, and volcanic rock. A peculiar type of readymade, the sample, collected from Kamilo Beach, Hawaii (the shores of which are littered with deposits from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch) take on different significance when displayed as either art or scientific objects. Jazvac typically displays these samples alongside her other plastic-based artworks, but are presented here on two items from the Malcove Collection, gifted by Dr. Lillian Malcove and housed at the University of Toronto Art Centre: a coffee table c. 1920-1950 and an oval occasional table c. 1880-1915.
Kelly Jazvac, Plastiglomerate, 2015. Geological samples of stones created through the sedimentation of melted plastic and natural materials such as coral, sand, wood and volcanic rock.
Artist bio:
Kelly Jazvac is an artist who works with plastic waste. Her most recent exhibitions in 2015 include Organic Situation at Koenig and Clinton, New York; Site Words, Spoilers and Shoplifters at Diaz Contemporary, Toronto; An other land... and also our own at Prosjekstrom Normanns, Norway; and Human Nature at Carleton University Gallery, Ottawa. Her work has been recently reviewed in The Huffington Post, Magenta Magazine, The New Yorker, Border Crossings and The Brooklyn Rail. She is represented by Louis B. James Gallery, New York, and Diaz Contemporary, Toronto. Jazvac is based in London, Ontario where she is an Associate Professor at Western University.
www.kellyjazvac.com
