BRIDGEHAMPTON, NY.- Elisa Contemporary Art presents Upcycle at The Design Studio in Bridgehampton, NY. Upcycle celebrates Artwork created from all recycled materials. The artists recycle, reuse and re-envision newspaper, magazines, junk mail, commercial signage, plastic scraps and strips, caps & bottles, wood, steel, tools, drills and metal parts to create dazzling one of a kind works of art. The exhibit opened on August 1st and runs through September 20th.

Featured artists include:

• Connecticut Interdisciplinary artist Joseph Dermody
• New York Metal sculptor Carole Eisner
• Canadian Mixed Media artist Aurora Robson
• Uruguay Mixed Media artist Adriana Rostovsky
• St. Louis Hybrid artist Cheryl Wassenaar

All the artists all share a commitment to make our world a cleaner, greener and more eco-minded environment for current and future generations.

Joseph Dermody
As an interdisciplinary artist, Joseph Dermody (born October 7, 1979 in Warwick, Rhode Island) has always focused on a balanced mix of many different forms of visual and performing arts. He received his Bachelors and Masters of Music Performance from Rhode Island College, Guildhall School of Music in London and Purchase Conservatory, NY.

Joseph currently identifies himself as a Dimensional Expressionist; His love for music, painting, sculpture and structural design have been synergistically cultivated from early childhood and continues to influence his work across disciplines. His classical training, combined with a desire for experimentation has led to an awareness and freedom that allows for a continuous evolution of creativity and artistry. Joseph has received eight awards in the past few years for his work including a spot in the New York Times.

Carole Eisner
Carole Eisner has worked with scrap and recycled metal for 40 years creating elegant, abstract forms welded in steel. The artist's compositions reflect the surprising malleability she finds with metal. She works with “the debris of our civilization,” reclaiming and reassembling disregarded fragments of buildings and bridges into art. Eisner's longevity as an artist is a testament to the natural marriage between her monumental outdoor sculptures and the climate of public spaces.

Eisner received a BFA from Syracuse University. A life-long New Yorker, the artist splits her time between New York City and Weston, Connecticut. Her work has been exhibited throughout the world and is in public and private collections including the Guggenheim Museum. In 2013 Carole was the recipient of Syracuse University George Arents Alumni award for art. She is represented in New York by Susan Eley Fine Art.

Aurora Robson
Aurora Robson is a multi-media artist known predominantly for her transformative work intercepting the waste stream. Her practice is largely about subjugating negativity and shifting trajectories. Robson was born in Toronto in 1972 and grew up in Maui, HI. She lived and worked in New York City for the past two decades and recently relocated to the Hudson Valley. She holds a double major (B.A.) in visual arts and art history from Columbia University.

Robson has exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and public spaces. Her work has been featured in Art in America, Art & Antiques, the cover of Green Building + Design and many other publications. She is a recipient of the Pollock Krasner Grant, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in sculpture, a TED/Lincoln Re-Imagine Prize and numerous other grants and awards. Recent and upcoming exhibits include: McColl Center for Visual Art (NC), Southampton Art Center (NY), The John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art (FL), and Philadelphia Zoo (PA).

Her artwork is in public and private collections throughout the US.

Adriana Rostovsky
Born in Uruguay, Adriana Rostovsky trained as an architect. Her art is informed and driven by a European history of conservation. This childhood penchant for collecting “unusable items” evolved into an adult passion for treasuring day to day objects and giving them new life in the form of combined media in relief.

As an adult, Rostovsky has traveled around the world, immersing herself in different cultures. As a visual artist, Rostovsky is drawn to transforming into art discarded materials that bring extensive history with them. She has been engaged on an international basis in many interdisciplinary projects, with focus on sustainability. Her artwork has been in group and solo exhibitions in Uruguay, Holland, Connecticut, and New York.

Cheryl Wassenaar
Cheryl Wassenaar is a visual artist who explores the function of text in a hybrid practice of painting, sculpture, and design. She works primarily with found and fabricated commercial signage, repurposing the discarded wood into visual metaphors of communication that borrow from the language of modernist painting, contemporary advertising, and technology.

Her work was featured on three book covers and selected for Studio Visit and New American Painters, both published by Open Studios Press. Wassenaar's corporate collections include Fidelity Investments in Boston, and Steelcase, Inc. in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington D.C. She recently won an international design competition for a permanent public artwork in the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art's new facility in Grand Rapids, MI. Cheryl Wassenaar received her BFA from Calvin College and her MFA from the University of Cincinnati.

She is currently Associate Professor in the College of Art at the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri.

Cheryl Wassenaar's work is exhibited nationally and internationally, appearing in over fifty group and solo exhibitions.