Artists Turn Trash Into Striking Recycled Art Pieces at transFORM Gallery

We may call it garbage, but for artists at the <a href="http://www.transformgallery.com/#!re-imagining-past-possessions/c22au">transFORM Art Gallery</a> in New Rochelle, NY, trash is just art waiting to happen. In a new exhibit at the gallery called Re-Imagining Past Possessions: Works of Recycled Materials, five artists used eco-friendly methods to create sculptures and paintings using <a href="http://inhabitat.com/nyc/?p=51421">recycled and reused materials</a> ranging from magazines to scrap metal. Click through the gallery to see these transformative works of art.

In the middle 1990s, when artist <a href="http://www.transformgallery.com/#!andriana-rostovsky/ccxi" target="_blank">Andriana Rostovsky </a> started studying architecture, and immediately found herself fully drawn to projects made of recycled materials.

When she was a child, Rostovsky used to collect uncommon things, like tea and gum wrappers, colored papers, commercial postcards, bus tickets, empty toy boxes, and many things that other people might consider useless.

<a href="http://www.transformgallery.com/#!lisa-mee/c1bbt" target="_blank"> Lisa Mee </a>integrates papers, fabrics and metals into my paintings by careful sorting, cutting and assembling.

These natural forms to capture the elusive qualities of nature by using recycled materials in an aesthetic manner.

Mundane scraps are combined to create a harmonic, intense combination of all the parts.

<a href="http://www.transformgallery.com/#!rodolfo-edwards/c1yih" target="_blank"> Rodolfo Edwards' </a> works are based in a architectural urban drawing and color using the personal language expressing it with different resources.

Edwards' works features drips of Acrylic paint , grid of lines using ink pencil and correct pen over dark surfaces, papers selected from art, photographs or fashion magazines.

A painter and a sculptor, <a href="http://www.transformgallery.com/#!carole-eisner/c16vn" target="_blank">Carole Eisner </a> has worked with scrap and recycled metal for 40 years, creating elegant, abstract forms welded in steel.

The artist's twisted and curved sculptures reflect the surprising malleability she finds with metal. ​

Eisner's larger-than-life works and small scale sculptures are ideal for public exhibition, and, indeed, have been exhibited in dozens of public parks, corporate plazas, cultural centers, museums and waterfronts.