THRIFT STORE ART

 

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Original artworks found at thrift stores, yard sales, swap meets, rummage sales and in the trash.

Nothing changed, nothing added, other than a title.

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All the art in one place

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“I don’t listen to what art critics say. I don’t know anybody who needs a critic to find out what art is”

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Artist (deceased)

Tales From The Trash

An Art Show Of Questionable Art

Crashing into Central School Project in beautiful Bisbee Arizona on March 11th comes the World’s Greatest Art Show Of Questionable Art, for ONE NIGHT ONLY!

Every painting for sale is a REAL piece of ART! Not a virtual thing you pay for in virtual money and look at on your phone. It’s ALL real art, created by human beings that sometimes, maybe, could have tried a bit harder, but at least they had hearts and souls and minds and a solid determination to express themselves in a rich variety of colorful and interesting ways.

RECENT DISCOVERIES

Some recent finds

“The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures”

Salvador Dali

Artist (deceased)

Shows & EXHIBITIONS

The most fun you can have looking at art

The MISSION

Rescuing Art from neglect.

Just an excuse to have a bar graph

  • YEAR STARTED – 2015 100% 100%
  • PAINTINGS BOUGHT – 2085 98% 98%
  • AVERAGE PAINTINGS BOUGHT PER YEAR – 297.85 83% 83%
  • PAINTINGS SOLD – 676 31% 31%

“One Original Thought is worth 1000 Meaningless Quotes.”

Banksy

Artist (living - presumably)

From Our Customers

People who have attended past exhibitions say the nicest things

“The moment you cheat for the sake of beauty, you know you’re an artist”

David Hockney

Artist (living)

“We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents”

Bob Ross

Artist (deceased)

“Art is anything you can get away with”

Marshall McLuhan

Philosopher (deceased)

“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak”

Banksy

Artist (living - presumably)

“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”

Edward Hopper

Artist (deceased)

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”

Pablo Picasso

Artist (deceased)

All of the art shown here has been purchased by me from thrift stores, swap meets, yard sales and found in the trash.

They are all original works of art and have not been altered, other than the addition of a title.

CURATED MAYHEM

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