detail of cardboard flowers and bee

Cabrillo Gallery

Extraordinary Ordinary: Cardboard Reimagined

January 27–February 28, 2020

Link to exhibition images here or view at bottom of page

Featuring: Scott Fife, Taro Hattori, Jason Schneider, Ann Weber, and Dag Weiser

Cardboard is everywhere in our lives. It is a cheap material used for storing, packaging and shipping, but it becomes useless once it has done its job… a residual material, to be discarded. Cardboard is perfectly recyclable, at least, but it is also astoundingly "up-cyclable," as the artists in this exhibition strikingly demonstrate. Using a variety of inventive approaches to crafting forms from cardboard, they elevate this throwaway material from its humble, utilitarian origins, transforming it into extraordinary, sophisticated works of art.

View the exhibition image gallery below.

title wall of cardboard show with organic figures of woven scavenged cardboard
Ann Weber
installation view with cardboard harpsichord and cardboard paintings in background
Dag Weiser, Taro Hattori
detail of keys and strings in harpsichord
Taro Hattori, Cardboard harpsichord, detail
installation view showing bike that tows harpsichord and crashed Kamikaze plane made of cardboard
Taro Hattori, Scott Fife
view with plane in background and meticulously sculpted heads of cardboard in foreground, high up on wall
Scott Fife, Taro Hattori
closer view of heads made of layered cardboard depicting Elvis and Ed Kienholz
Scott Fife
installation view with laminated cardboard sculptures made on a lathe
Jason Schneider, Ann Weber
detail of laminated cardboard sculpture
Jason Schneider, detail, cardboard
detail of laminated cardboard sculpture with plaster within crevices
Jason Schneider, detail, cardboard and plaster
installation view of cardboard sculptures on pedestals and wall
Ann Weber, Jason Schneider
fantastical colorful installation of spray painted and relief cardboard depicting flowers, bees and skeletons
Dag Weiser
detail of cardboard flowers and bee
Dag Weiser, detail