Every year, we witness artists participating in the pART PROJECT competition with their aim to create inventive creations out of a box of 100 bike components given to each artist. The Chicago-based bicycle parts company SRAM has been quite instrumental in providing eco artists a viable platform to display their talent. Just like previous years, the creations will be adjudged by a jury and will hit the auction block at a live event in New York.
The proceeds will be given as charity to the World Bicycle Relief, a foundation that helps people in underprivileged areas gain access to bicycles.
Over 80 artists have created unique sculptures and abstract collages from upcycled bicycle components. A robotic ostrich, certain surrealistic creatures and so on – the creations lend a fresh lease of life to bike gears and chains. On November, 2012, SRAM will auction off bike part creations at Cedar Lake Theater in New York.
Artist: Mark Castator
Title: Heart Lode
Materials: SRAM parts, used bicycle chains, silicon bronze
Artist: Billie Grace Lynn
Title: Lion
Materials: Sram parts, welded steel, bicycle inner tubes, epoxy
Artist: Ebitenyefa Baralaye
Title: When I Spin, My Dress Spins Too
Materials: SRAM bike parts, bike wheel, plaster, ceramic shards and spray paint
Artist: Lewis Tardy
Title: Free Wheeling
Materials: SRAM parts, steel bicycle parts, surgical devices, aluminum
Artists: Mark Grieve and Ilana Spector
Title: Mask Composition with Bike Parts and Altered Deer Skull
Materials: SRAM parts
Artist: Alex Bogusky
Title: Fresh Air
Materials: SRAM parts, leather, foam
Artist: Michael Tingley
Title: Sramble
Materials: SRAM parts, mixed media
Artist: Dominic Sansone
Title: The Clouds Drink Deeply from my Electromechanical Soul
Materials: SRAM parts, oil-painted urethane foam, rubber tubing, model plane
Artist: Rob Millard-Mendez
Title: Ostrich
Materials: SRAM parts, wood, hardware
Artist: Daniel Michael Bertelli
Title: Sram’s Best Friend
Materials: SRAM parts, nuts, bolts
Artist: Darcy Meeker
Title: Dragonfly
Materials: SRAM parts, cogs, pipe, glue, wire, string
Artist: Bruce White
Title: The Amazing Hjalmer and His Astonishing One-Person Self-Propelled Circus Machine
Materials: Bike parts, rubber tubing, aluminum wire, o-rings, nuts, washers, a brass tube, wooden dowel
Via: MyModernMet
