Daniel Buettner and Ingrid Restemayer: Objects of Affection

Are you an origami artisan missing a wardrobe of shirts folded from Monopoly money? Or are you an amputee minus a prosthetic leg? Perhaps you're a bearded man who's lost the microscreen from your Remington electric razor? Is your Battleship board game a couple of boats short of a fleet? Have you been drinking unadorned margaritas because you can't find your drink umbrellas? If you answered "yes" to any of these questions, you'll definitely want to see Rosalux's new show, "Objects of Affection," and search for your former possessions among the art. The gallery is made up of Ingrid Restemayer's innovative works that mesh found objects with fiber art by stitching the items into a cloth, and Daniel Buettner's ultra-detailed drawings and paintings of things he has found. The artists discovered some strange things that just make you wonder, including a decoy hand grenade, a TV dinner, a wheelchair for a dog, and a motor scooter. But even though the things themselves are varied, they all followed the same lifespan of being created, being bought or sold, then stolen, lost, or thrown out. And now the gallery will sell them again, continuing the cycle. Artists' reception 7:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m. Saturday, February 2.
Feb. 2-28, 2008