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Recreating Nature From Everyday Objects: Sculpture Exhibit At Cynthia-Reeves

WAMC Northeast Public Radio

Published December 21, 2017 at 11:56 AM EST

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Drenk's exhibit at CYNTHIA-REEVES concludes Janurary 27th.

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Artist Jessica Drenk finishes installing her exhibit at CYTHINA-REEVES in North Adams.

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Drenk chisels out shards of pages of books, which have dipped in wax and hardened.

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A Q-tip sculpture is scattered across the floor.

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A stalactite and stalagmite, both made of pencils, reaching toward each other.

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Drenk, born in Montana, is Florida resident. She is an Artist Project Grant recipient from the Arizona Commision on the Arts.

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Drenk transforms commercial producst, such as book,s PVC piping and pencils into scenes of nature.

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Berkshire County draws imaginative minds and artists from across the U.S. to explore and create in the region’s many gallery spaces and studios. WAMC’s Berkshire Bureau Chief JD Allen recently spoke with Jessica Drenk, a Florida-based artist who was putting the final touches on her sculptures at CYNTHIA-REEVES in North Adams.

Drenk’s exhibit “Regeneration” is open at CYNTHIA-REEVES’s North Adams gallery in Building 13 on the MASS MoCA campus until January 27^th.