Author's Archive

10.06 2006

A Long Walk Home…

Juan Angel Chavez, Michael Genovese, and Cody Hudson have been collaborating as an un-official art crew on the streets of Chicago for years creating sensitive assemblages constructed of found objects.
Collecting discarded material, once waste in the urban landscape Chavez, Genovese, and Hudson give life to remnants of times past. Weaving new memories out of past purposes imposing fresh perspectives in vacant spaces. As a collective consciousness the artist/ creator picks up the pieces, giving life to left over man-made relics.
Interested in assemblage dwellings, a habitat constructed entirely out of found materials, gathered in and around the area of installation became a focus for the artists. Making a structure that re-connects the littered objects with a space synthesizing Genovese