SHIGEKO KUBOTA: VIDEO ART’S OTHER, VERY VISIONARY PIONEER

For several decades now, the Canadian-born artist Aurora Robson has been “rescuing from the waste stream” all sorts of plastics — bottles, bottle caps, packaging, and more — and using them as the raw material for her environmentally conscious art. She has developed techniques that allow her to create her sculptures without causing more pollution. Her assemblage art-making methods are essentially those of collage — in three dimensions. Seen here: “Plantpocalypse,” 2020, plastic and paper debris on found hard hat, 21 x 19 x 19 inches (55.3 x 48.3 x 48.3 centimeters). Photo by Marshall Coles