Art Opening “Cardboard Menagerie” by Artist Rich Entel

Gould will host an Art Opening “Cardboard Menagerie” by artist Rich Entel from 6-8:00 p.m. on Saturday, January 27 in the Owen Art Gallery. 

Entel writes, "The menagerie of nine animal-inspired sculptures is an intricate fusion of cardboard, musical instrument fragments, and Tibetan and Hebrew text. Each wall-mounted sculpture morphs in form and emotion as the viewer moves. Roots of the Menagerie reach back to the surge of homelessness and the baffling onslaught of AIDS in the early 1980s. In reaction, as an artist and medical student in NYC at that time, street refuse became my material -- primarily cardboard, broken furniture, house paint, and tar. Now, in this Menagerie, cardboard and broken instruments are melded to give voice to the discarded. "Cardboard Menagerie" was created in conversation with indigenous art objects -- primarily African, Tibetan, and North-West Indian with their fracturing, reorganization and transformation of form and their evolved portrayal of 'fierceness' and 'wildness.' "