Bloomingdale museum hosts 'Landfills' sculpture exhibit

Chicago Sculpture International's exhibit "Landfills: Lifestyle or Landscape" can be seen through Saturday, Sept. 26, at Bloomingdale Park District Museum, 108 S. Bloomingdale Road.

"Landfills" is a journey into the world of sculpture that is driven by collective consciousness and a never-ending source of individual inspiration. The viewer sees dramatic, sensuous, evolutionary work whose materials have literally and physically metamorphosed from their original, fragmented street meaning to become objects within the context of an art gallery.

The exhibition includes the work by eight members of Chicago Sculpture International: Sarah Barnhart-Fields, Carol Brookes, Donna Hapac, Ray Katz, Mimi Peterson, Gina Lee Robbins, Roy L. Rogers and Toby Zallman.

"Nature inspires me. I focus on the structures and patterns that I find in nature and build open, container-like sculptures that evoke plant and animal forms," said Hapac, one of the artists whose work is part of the exhibit.

Many of the works mime societal attitudes toward sustainability and the Earth. Whether interpreted as landscape or lifestyle, beautiful or ugly, industrial or craft-made, intentionally designed or unearthed, the allegory of ideas and sculptures speaks about a culture of social disruption.

Museum hours are 4 to 8 p.m. Wednesdays; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays; and noon to 4 p.m. Saturdays. For details, call (630) 339-3570 or visit www.bloomingdaleparks.org.