John Salvest is a Philadelphia-based artist who brought his collections of vintage billy clubs, piles of old paperback books, business cards, stamps and bottle caps to David Lusk’s Nashville outpost in February. Salvest combined his mundane treasures into humorous, warm and ironic arrangements that equaled more than the sum of their parts — the billy clubs were hung on a wall to form a peace sign, and the books were stacked on shelves where their colorful spines combined to spell out words like “LOVE.” Material Evidence was the most transformative and formally delightful found/reused/recycled local art show of the year.
Best Found-Materials Show
