Jodie Fink

Biography

Jodie Fink is passionate about recycling and has made sculptures from detritus for decades.

She's shown these homages of our lives in New York, New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, France and Africa.

Trained as a photographer at Pratt Institute, she uses her keen eye to make spontaneous, whimsical and

often ironic creations from the world around her. The found materials discarded in the environment

give her sculptures a raw primitive feel. Ms. Fink is also an abstract painter; all her paintings

are on recycled canvases and panels.

Fink was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for photography and several artist residencies at

Foundation Karolyi in France and Dorland Mountain Colony in California for sculpture.

She exhibits her work nationally and internationally

I'm driven by a deep aversion to waste and a profound fascination with the beauty found in aged and weathered materials.

My art is a testament to this ethos, crafted primarily from discarded remnants of our environment--rusted metal, old wood,

weathered tools, balloons, and natural materials like twigs and bone. These materials, once deemed worthless,

become the building blocks of my creations, small monuments to the passage of time and the potential for renewal inherent in every moment.