Duke Riley turns the garbage on the shore of the ocean into art to show maritime culture, strength, nature – the Virgin pilot

Duke Riley, known for his early marine style to American, shows the connection of Hampton Rhodes with his waterways in his latest works, which are shown on Friday at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Virginia.

“O’er Wide and Plastic Sea”, curated by its graduate student Melissa Messina, explores the intersection of institutional power and nature through compositions of reconciled debris, many of which was found in relative closeness to the museum sites – the beach of Virginia on the beach on the beach The ocean.

Riley is known for her folklore, artistic commentary on the effect of industry on the natural world, according to a museum message. Inspired by city waterways and maritime history, it creates innovative installations, videos, sculptures and drawings. The exhibit emphasizes several bodies of his work, many of which will be shown together for the first time, including several new tracks, reflecting the unique landscape of Virginia Beach and her naval culture.

Visitors can see his interpretations of historical ships, such as the sunken USS battle monitor, created with recycled plastic tile mosaics, the museum said. Riley cut naval destroyers on plastic plastic vessels to show the connection between the military and the industrial era, after which it gives rise to the economy of leisure.

Riley Reimagines Sailors Valentines, traditional gifts given to loved ones after a long voyage, using shells and plastic junk found, including hinged parts, mechanical pencils, floss sticks, disposable lighters and syringes. The exhibition also debuted a sculptural series that plays on tourist souvenirs from the beach of the Victorian era.

Riley had solo exhibitions in major institutions such as the Queens Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, the Havana Biennial, the Biennial of Sydney, the Biennale of the Mercesul and the Philaffy. Born the New Anglander has turned Brooklyn Transplantation, his works are in the constant collections of the National Art Gallery, the Whitney Museum, the Brooklyn Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

A look at Riley’s exhibition will be “Open (in) All: Dear Land”, an exhibition involving works by Hampton Rhodes artists, using his works as inspiration; Artlab, practical experience of MOCA; and a “witness to nature”, a joint outdoor sculpture created by students from Virginia Beach City public schools of Seatack Elementary and the Environmental Research Program.

The museum also offers public and studio programs to deepen the engagement with the topics in Riley’s work through cooperation with partners, including Cape Henry Fara University.

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If you go

When: By 31 August

Where: Museum of Contemporary Art of Virginia, 2200 Parks Ave., Virginia Beach

Admission: Free for residents of Virginia, museum members

Details: Virginiamoca.org