Closing Cocktails: Sunday, October 4th, 4 – 6pm

Ian Trask is a scientist-turned-artist. His sculptures transform materials of waste and commercial byproducts into refined aesthetic objects through an alchemistic procedure of reinterpreting a material’s value and usefulness.  Texture and tangibility are essential to the experience of these objects.

Ian received his degree in biological science from Bowdoin College in 2005. Following graduation he worked several years as a technician in various research labs and in 2007 Ian decided he wanted to leave the world of science to pursue a career in the fine arts. Leaving his job in the laboratory, Ian worked as a hospital groundskeeper cleaning up trash daily, an experience that proved to be formative in his artistic development. Ian saw the artistic potential in the waste he was confronted with everyday and quickly began working with discarded manufactured goods as the main platform for his pieces.

Please join us this Sunday, October 4th, 4 – 6pm for a closing reception “moving sale”!  Trask is abandoning the streets of Brooklyn for the coastal shores of Maine later this fall!