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Chuck Baxter creates found object art from materials tossed in DC’s gutters and alleys. For the past fifteen years Chuck has built a reputation, in his own mind, as the D.C. area’s foremost collector of gutter gifts. He’s a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs retired bureaucrat, a DC artist, and minimal director of his own life. Few of Chuck’s pieces hang in DC business and government offices, and in the homes of art collectors and friends around the world. “I have always felt the pull of throw-aways, and sought to invoke the world of junk as the natural medium for the urban artist.” His fascination with the flotsam of city life and the details of trash, such as broken glass, smashed plastic, crumpled paper, and lost toys, is the starting point for most of his pieces. The underlying compositional themes of his work draw from the common shapes and forms found in the gutter. Chuck currently resides in the Shaw where he simmers in his own private studio.

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SOLD / Sculpture with music box.

Chuck Baxter creates found object art from materials tossed in DC’s gutters and alleys. For the past fifteen years Chuck has built a reputation, in his own mind, as the D.C. area’s foremost collector of gutter gifts. He’s a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs retired bureaucrat, a DC artist, and minimal director of his own life. Few of Chuck’s pieces hang in DC business and government offices, and in the homes of art collectors and friends around the world. “I have always felt the pull of throw-aways, and sought to invoke the world of junk as the natural medium for the urban artist.” His fascination with the flotsam of city life and the details of trash, such as broken glass, smashed plastic, crumpled paper, and lost toys, is the starting point for most of his pieces. The underlying compositional themes of his work draw from the common shapes and forms found in the gutter. Chuck currently resides in the Shaw where he simmers in his own private studio.

www.midcityartists.com/artistdetails.asp?artist=ChuckBaxter

Chuck Baxter creates found object art from materials tossed in DC’s gutters and alleys. For the past fifteen years Chuck has built a reputation, in his own mind, as the D.C. area’s foremost collector of gutter gifts. He’s a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs retired bureaucrat, a DC artist, and minimal director of his own life. Few of Chuck’s pieces hang in DC business and government offices, and in the homes of art collectors and friends around the world. “I have always felt the pull of throw-aways, and sought to invoke the world of junk as the natural medium for the urban artist.” His fascination with the flotsam of city life and the details of trash, such as broken glass, smashed plastic, crumpled paper, and lost toys, is the starting point for most of his pieces. The underlying compositional themes of his work draw from the common shapes and forms found in the gutter. Chuck currently resides in the Shaw where he simmers in his own private studio.

www.midcityartists.com/artistdetails.asp?artist=ChuckBaxter

Chuck Baxter creates found object art from materials tossed in DC’s gutters and alleys. For the past fifteen years Chuck has built a reputation, in his own mind, as the D.C. area’s foremost collector of gutter gifts. He’s a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs retired bureaucrat, a DC artist, and minimal director of his own life. Few of Chuck’s pieces hang in DC business and government offices, and in the homes of art collectors and friends around the world. “I have always felt the pull of throw-aways, and sought to invoke the world of junk as the natural medium for the urban artist.” His fascination with the flotsam of city life and the details of trash, such as broken glass, smashed plastic, crumpled paper, and lost toys, is the starting point for most of his pieces. The underlying compositional themes of his work draw from the common shapes and forms found in the gutter. Chuck currently resides in the Shaw where he simmers in his own private studio.

www.midcityartists.com/artistdetails.asp?artist=ChuckBaxter

Artists Peter e Harper and Thomas Drymon at HAL.

This Saturday, 10.22 and Sunday 10.23.11, you can stop by harmon art lab. Doors are open from 12-5pm in conjunction with the Mid City Artists Fall 2011 open studios. This could be your last chance to see works by Michel Modell and Mariah Johnson.

Harmon Art Lab (HAL) is a creative collaboration that ties art curator, artist and viewer into an interactive dialogue of ideas and engagement. HAL exhibits two risk-taking artists per month working in a variety of media that will help to redefine contemporary art in the DC area, one as a solo exhibition, the other as a site-specific installation that is influenced by the space and the content of their own work. This will offers prospects for transformation as each artist creates something temporal and unique to the space. Along with the gallery, Harmon Art Lab will publish a monthly online art paper inviting a menagerie of guest writers to articulate refreshing and thoughtful perspectives about the world of art as they see it. Unlike a traditional gallery website, the online art paper will also include fascinating interviews with area artists, collectors, curators and critics, as well as exhibition and installation images every month. HAL will be open by appointment and on the Saturday and Sundays during the first week of exhibition, as well as events such as artist talks, panel discussions and private functions. Harmon Art Lab is the creation of artists Peter e Harper and Thomas Drymon.

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