Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is an exciting exhibition featuring 50 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless manufactured and mass-produced objects into extraordinary works of art. Second Lives includes new commissions, site-specific installations, and works that have never been exhibited in the United States. The works are created from gun triggers, spools of thread, tires, hypodermic needles, dog tags, old eyeglasses, and telephone books, among others. Second Lives highlight... Read more

Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is an exciting exhibition featuring 50 contemporary artists from 17 countries who transform discarded, commonplace, or valueless manufactured and mass-produced objects into extraordinary works of art. Second Lives includes new commissions, site-specific installations, and works that have never been exhibited in the United States. The works are created from gun triggers, spools of thread, tires, hypodermic needles, dog tags, old eyeglasses, and telephone books, among others. Second Lives highlights the creative processes that repurpose these objects, exploring the transformation of the ordinary into the extraordinary and stimulating debate on function, value, and identity.