Christy Rupp, The Great Auk, from the series “Extinct birds previously consumed by Humans,” 2008. Welded steel, fast food chicken bones, paper, and mixed media, 32 x 17 x 22 in. Photo: Nick Ghiz
Christy Rupp is featured in this new Sculpture Magazine interview with curator Ellen K. Levy about the exhibition "From Forces to Forms" recently at Pratt Manhattan Gallery . Levy notes about Rupp's work "Moby Debris":
"Christy Rupp, for example, grapples with the metaphor “we are what we eat” as it relates to future generations. This is not just a metaphor. It accurately describes the biome (e.g., the varied organisms in our guts)...Rupp considers how waste and toxic elements in our environment corrupt the accepted way in which organisms function and evolve. "Moby Debris" (2019) is a taxonomic collection of small sculptures that replicate sea creatures. Each of her aquatic-inspired “organisms” is composed of discarded plastic detritus and visually comments on the damage done to species when they consume the glut of inorganic detritus hurled into our food chain. " -- Ellen K. Levy
