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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

We’re getting ready for our Les’ fist solo show at the gallery…

Re-Gallery is excited to present Conversations in the Woods, its first solo show for gallery owner and instructor, Lester Corral.  Inspired by the adaptive natures of creatures’ great and small, internationally acclaimed and locally-based artist Corral creates animals from the detritus of everyday life.  Castaway pieces including wood, tires, fabric and metal are transformed into organic figures found on the land, in the air and in the sea.  See our Exhibitions & Events page for more about the art and the artist.

Lester Corral’s exhibition will open at Re-Gallery on Friday, June 15, 2012 from 6-9 p.m.  Join us for food, drinks and some great art! The exhibition will run from June 15 – August 15, 2012.

We are currently showing Harriman, Fawcett and Falcon at Re-Gallery…

Re-Gallery is pleased to present a collaborative exhibition by local artists assuming the identities of Harriman, Fawcett and Falcon.  The exhibition will examine the Salton Sea from its rise as a popular recreation destination in the mid-20^th century to its decline into a harsh, ecologically devastated landscape.  Historical figures Harriman, Fawcett and Falcon – an unlikely trio of disgraced captain of industry, archaeologist and explorer – document their  individual experiences at the Salton Sea via installation, illustration, hand drawn maps, case notes of their findings, soil samples, and photography.

Harriman, Fawcett, & Falcon Present: the Salton Sea Studies: a Visual Representation of an In Depth Exploration will open at Re-Gallery on March 30, from 6-9 pm.  Please join us for an evening of intriguing art, food and beverages.  The exhibition will run from March 30 through May 30, 2012.

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

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!