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| "Boris Bally's sophisticated reinvention of reclaimed street signs and found objects will rattle your mind. Bally transforms traffic signs into everything from entirely modern furniture to sleek jewelry and home decor items -- and even flatware! My favorite piece is a necklace created with 100 handgun triggers from Pittsburgh's "Goods for Guns" program. It's Bally's spin on the talismanic charms of aboriginal cultures, and he says, "this urban 'mojo' protects the wearer from the gun violence so prevalent in today's culture." American Craft Magazine Blog |
All work is constructed of materials recycled from Aluminum Traffic
Signs. Boris Bally's trademark technique HUMANUFACTURED® is
achieved through hand-fabricated pierced metal & swaged. (a tool, die,
or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil, in a
stamping press, etc).
Signs. Boris Bally's trademark technique HUMANUFACTURED® is
achieved through hand-fabricated pierced metal & swaged. (a tool, die,
or stamp for giving a particular shape to metal on an anvil, in a
stamping press, etc).
Boris' work is a disciplined body of objects which vary from
eccentric through formal to humorous; provoking thought and
reflecting some of the distortions of our ordered world. His
practice is a near transparent amalgam of the skills of an able
industrial designer, a gifted craftsperson, a savvy business man,
a discriminating sculptor, and a clever cultural critic. Bally is a
working artist - someone who has integrated their studio
practice, their means of monetary support, and his family into a
seamless (sleepless?) lifestyle that is puncutated by the
dissected remains of streetsigns.
-Phil Renato
eccentric through formal to humorous; provoking thought and
reflecting some of the distortions of our ordered world. His
practice is a near transparent amalgam of the skills of an able
industrial designer, a gifted craftsperson, a savvy business man,
a discriminating sculptor, and a clever cultural critic. Bally is a
working artist - someone who has integrated their studio
practice, their means of monetary support, and his family into a
seamless (sleepless?) lifestyle that is puncutated by the
dissected remains of streetsigns.
-Phil Renato
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"DPW" Brooches are ALL different and one-of-a-kind, based on the
availability of the recycled aluminum traffic sign materials. The final
brooch will be of similar color but may vary slightly from the photograph.
availability of the recycled aluminum traffic sign materials. The final
brooch will be of similar color but may vary slightly from the photograph.