Denise Treizman

Lives and works in Miami, FL, USA

Artist statement

Denise Treizman creates sculptures and installations combining found objects, ready-made materials, ceramics, weavings and lights. Through a practice of gleaning and repurposing, she accumulates materials with no specific purpose in mind, except having them at hand and available to subtly shape the creation of her works. Recurrent materials like yoga balls, pool noodles, glitter, ropes, hula-hoops, but also handwoven weavings, get reused over and over in time. What was once presented as finished work can easily later on become a prompt for a new work. Nothing is permanent, everything transforms. Her process is at once an act of artistic ownership over her materials as well as a playful exploration of the infinite possibilities that they afford her. Treizman critically examines hyper-consumerism, but at the same time, she paradoxically participates in it, relying on commercial goods and throwaway culture to make her work. She exposes her own way of dealing with excess: on one hand, she questions the real need for vibrantly patterned single-use materials, like pink flamingo-printed duct tape, or violet bubble wrap, to exist. On the other hand, she finds these playful materials to be absolutely irresistible. Her work becomes a reflection on mass-produced society and a space where criticism and fascination coexist.

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