"Damn It" Recycled Skateboard Art up for #MakeZaneBetter Auction
- thebuzzgraphics
- Feb 28, 2021
- 2 min read
Updated: Oct 29, 2021
February 28, 2021
ANNOUNCEMENT TIME! As promised, here's a few announcements concerning the next #MakeZaneBetter auction item, #scarves4sherri, a Zaner update. This auction will open tomorrow morning March 1st at 10am EDT and end on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th at 2:00pm EDT. Front and back of the art is included in this announcement post.
About the art auction piece:
“Damn It” Recycled Skateboard Pop Art Wall Sculpture, measures 20x12x1" Artist: Jeannie Drevas Condition: New Value $375.00
Jeannie is RPK artist that now resides in Portland, OR
Artist Statement. One night, after hours, I was dancing around my studio, pondering what next...Is there some kind of material, more urban, that I might use for a show in Portland, Oregon? Flashing into my mind came the idea of exploring old skate boards as a material. Over the years, I have realized that I am drawn to a material and then the dance happens between my DNA and its. That analogy makes more sense when I was working with bark, which actually has DNA and a history, which I would collect off newly cut down live trees, in the summer the bark comes off in big sheets. I want to make something out of my surroundings, connect further, embed.
So as of January 2016, I've been exploring the possibilities of recycled skate boards. What I love the most are the distressed graphics and the strength of these seven-ply maple plywood decks. Immersing myself in the surfaces just as I did with the bark and all its scarrings and bumps.
I gleaned them from skate shops mostly, adhering to my motto of making something from nothing. I’ve added a few more woodworking tools to my arsenal the best being a tiny belt sander which I altered a bit to work for me. I have loved the simplicity of working with only one material (well there are some dowels and wire), just delving as to possibilities, learning to work with the curving nature of the decks always focused on the distressed graphics. http://www.jeannedrevas.com/
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