The World’s Greatest Art Show Of Questionable Thrift Store Art
Reclaimed, Renamed & Reframed
Thrift Store Art. Nothing changed, nothing added, other than a title.
Original artworks found at a thrift store, yard sale, swap meet, rummage sale and in the trash.
SHOWS & EXHIBITIONS
The most fun you can have looking at art
RECENT DISCOVERIES
Some recent thrift store art finds
People & Their Paintings
All kinds of people like all kinds of paintings, which is at it should be.
A is for ALPHABET
I’ve created my first educational book of thrift store art, designed especially for sophisticated children and immature adults
PROCESS
Writing the book was surprisingly easy, and the illustrations are all from my collection of thrift store art, created by a whole lot of different artists.
INCLUSION
Each of the 20 pages is filled with art, covering every letter of the entire alphabet, from A to Z. Literally.
STIMULATING
The pictures are, I believe, appropriate for almost any age, and may even stimulate educational conversations between younger readers and those supervising them.
SAFETY
The book measures 6″x 6″and the pages are made of 1/16” thick board and have nice, safe rounded corners, so there’s little chance of eyes being poked out.
The MISSION:
Rescuing Thrift Store Art from neglect.
Over the years I’ve learned to buy less thrift store art than I once did, focusing on the ‘Quality Questionable‘ over the ‘Quantity Questionable‘. I have donated many unsold paintings back to Thrift Stores, given them to friends who want them and left them in public places for random strangers to take.
I’ve documented a few of these Social Experiments here
Testimonials From Our Customers
People who have attended past thrift store art exhibitions say the nicest things
“Above all, Art should be fun”
“The art world is the biggest joke going. It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak”
“We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents”
“The reason some portraits don’t look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures”
“If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”
