Can a bunch of bound-up garbage be art? Hell yeah. Steven Siegel has been making this point for years. The artist is famed for amassing garbage from the sea, landfills, and illegal dumps and turning the detritus into something to be admired and abhorred. While his pieces are wind-blown and ethereal, once you start studying them, identifying individual pieces of trash with your eyes — trash quite similar to the stuff in your own waste bin — it’s hard not to reflect on the world’s garbage woes. An exhibit of his work, BIOGRAPHY, is on view through December at MASS MoCA.
BIOGRAPHY: Cynthia-Reeves, 1315 MASS MoCA Way, N. Adams, Massachusetts, www.massmoca.org.
