In (re)cycle Linda Vallejo art will present multiple double-entendres circling around the idea of recycling trash, recycling attitudes, and recycling art. Vallejo will present Earth's Altar Diorama and Earth's Altar Silver, mixed-media postproduction sculptures "recycling" the artists paintings to create shrines commemorating the rapidly vanishing beauties of the our wild spaces. Western religious art also underlies the shapes of Postmodern Trash that recycles the detritus of our daily lives into deeply ironic shrines and votive objects. Vallejo will also present Censored, mixed media newspaper collages penetrating contemporary political and social issues.

"That Vallejo is able to channel and draw on so many aspects of her experience without breaking stride or overloading the viewer is a testament to her strengths as an artist." ANN LANDI, Contributing editor of ARTnews and author of the four-volume Schirmer Encyclopedia of Art

"Vallejo's interests and subject-matter spans are considerable. Themes of beauty, consumption, war, excess, world pollution, iconic references to international indigenous peoples and earth-based installations all reside in her works." William Moreno, Director, Claremont Museum of Art

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