Ugly Is Beautiful

Overview

Johnston Foster is a sculptor working out of Nova Scotia who creates large scale pieces from found and discarded items. His latest project has him flying to Athens, Greece is to create a new interpretation of the famous mythological Golden Fleece, sculpting a something beautiful from trash and detritus. Surrealist painter Christian Rex van Minnen has a modern and bizarrely beautiful take on the reinvention of classical portraiture and still life. For our program, he is creating a new and disturbingly fascinating large scale work on a billboard in New York City.