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Arunas Oslapas started his career as an Architectural Space Planner and Draftsman. He has taught at Kendall College, Brigham Young University, and Western Washington University. Along with working and teaching Oslapas enjoys exercising his mind and hands by reclaiming and experimenting with new recycled materials to find new applications and methods to fabricate them into art pieces. His only limitations are dictated by the nature of the recycled material. He fondly refers to his work as “Recycled garbage art.”
Oslapas uses spring steel banding commonly used for strapping lumber and other industrial materials to weave metal baskets. This banding is wildly unmanageable, and Oslapas enjoys the challenge of taming this sharp, spring-loaded material. In creating his recycled masks Oslapas combines unrelated discarded items into masterfully assembled unified art pieces. He feels if these pieces could talk, they would portray distinct and individual personalities. His intent in creating these pieces is to celebrate the renewal of the common object and exalt it to a higher value than it once possessed. When viewing the masks, Oslapas enjoys the contemplation of each individual components and its previous function. Oslapas has shown his work at the Sun Valley Arts Festival, the Utah Arts Festival, and around the world in an international design resource exhibit. |
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