Allan Winkler: Recycled Art

Kansas City artist and musician Allan Winkler may be best known for his ceramics, murals and cut-outs, but his boundless creativity spills out in many forms.  For this exhibit, the artist creates art with materials that are usually discarded to a landfill.  Winkler reveals a hidden beauty in cardboard boxes, beer cans, household objects, metal pipes and old clothes, then injects new life. He finds joy in the challenge of transforming found materials, an inexpensive way to continuously express and share his creativity.  Without a heavy handed environmental message – Winkler’s art cleverly engages the viewer to think about our consumer culture by encouraging us to see the world through his imagination.