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Riva Weinstein
This Is Not A Bucky Ball
Riva Weinstein
This Is Not A Bucky Ball
- Plastic packaging, produce ties, wire
- Various, from approximately soccer (8.5” diameter) to beach ball sized (15” diameter)
- Balls are created and held together with wire and will be attached with wire to the existing greenhouse structure and hung in various lengths Installation should be maintenance free. If required the artist will restring or remove fallen balls.
Plastic balls created from reclaimed consumer food packaging are inspired by the shape Buckminster Fuller made famous with his ecologically minded geodesic dome, the form resembles a soccer ball, and occurs in nature as a carbon chemical—which was ultimately named the Fullerene molecule for the architect and visionary. Here, they speak to both the possibility of reimagining use and our need to find ways to limit, and even end the production of single use plastics.
Weinstein creates site specific installations and performances that contemplate and celebrate life. Her artistic practice is grounded in walking and collecting.
Using found natural objects, reclaimed consumer packaging, vintage and industrial discards, she reimagines material and meaning.
The number 18 and circle form – symbols of life – are fulcrums for her work which has been included in groundbreaking exhibitions prayingproject at Exit Art (2005) and Dear Mother Nature at the Dorsky Museum (2012), and Address Earth at Hudson Valley Museum of Contemporary Art (2022).
Weinstein has exhibited throughout the Hudson Valley, in New York City, Los Angeles and New Zealand. She has been an artist in residence at the Omega Institute for Holistic Studies. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College and a Nature Art facilitator certificate from Strawtown Studio.