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We Are Spreading the Word about Sustainable Art!

We sell, support, and teach art made from reclaimed and recycled materials. Re-Gallery serves a unique need by providing a “green” alternative to traditional art.

From vintage jewelry and handmade envelopes, to one-of-a-kind sculptures and paintings for your home, our goal is to give you a unique piece that can inspire your imagination as well as your environmentalism.

What Are We Up To?

Come see our beautiful trash…

Recently, tagging artists Humor and Star27 created a spectacular mural on the fence surrounding our dumpster!  Neighbors and visitors have been giving us rave reviews.  Come by and see it!  We want to make our dumpster art a rotating exhibit, so if you’re an artist and you’re interested in beautifying our trash receptacle fence, please contact gallery owner Lester Corral at lester@regallery.org

We are currently showing Woman on a Journey, by Karla Leopold…

Re-Gallery is honored to present its first solo exhibition for local artist Karla Leopold.  Informed by her experiences as an art therapist, the subject matter of Karla Leopold’s assemblages and shadow boxes often explore the world of innocence lost, and those things which bring darkness to light.  Her work speaks to a sophisticated decay incorporating elements of purity tainted by time and experience.

Leopold ties her work as an art and family therapist into her creations, “I’ve worked in psych units, I’ve been the director of a drug and alcohol unit, I’ve had my own practice and worked with the children of Katrina for three years. Then, I found myself at a point in my life when I needed to take time to process all the adversity and trauma I had dealt with and, in turn, use it to teach.  I think I’m very lucky as an artist because I have visited so many lives, experienced so many issues. I have so much to draw upon, and I think that is a wonderful gift.”

Woman on a Journey will be on display at Re-Gallery from January 6 – March 11, 2011.

Sustainable Drawing: Top Five Tips

Mark H. Adams, a past exhibitor in Re-Gallery, creates incredible drawings on the backs of card board packaging and pages from old books. And he got us thinking. Is it possible to make drawing more sustainable?

We did a little digging, and came up with the top five tips for making your drawings earth friendly.

1. Use a Pencil Extender or Refillable Lead holder. You’ll be able to use almost the entire pencil, and will save you the annoyance and eye poking danger of sharpening both ends of your pencil.

2. Ditch pastel pencils for regular pastel sticks. You’ll save trees and money. If you’ve got to have the pencil, consider buying from Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencils. The eco-friendly company runs a reforesting project in Brazil where they grow timber for pencils on formerly barren savannah.

3. Buy pencils from loose stock to reduce packaging.

4. Get creative with your paper when making practice sketches. Try using repurposed surfaces such as cardboard scraps or old books. And don’t forget to use both sides of your newsprint!

5. Buy from eco-conscious companies: Faber-Castell Pitt Pastel Pencil and Cedar-Cased Pencils both use sustainable wood for their pencils, and Derwent Graphic Pencils recently switched to a UV coating manufacturing process which reduced the company’s energy consumption.

Got another tip or a cool eco-friendly product? Share it with us!