Susan Myers: Reclaimed Metal Trays

Visual artist and metalsmith Susan Myers plumbs our thoughts on consumption with her objects crafted from reclaimed sheet metal. Throughout her various series of works she uses discarded silver-plated serving trays, which she finds by scouring yard sales and thrift stores.

In her Disposable series, I love the sleek shapes and new life she gives to these trays, which are formed and folded to be reminiscent of takeout food boxes. For her Silver-Plate series she collaborated with printer Cindi Ettinger to create graphic relief prints on paper from the patterns on the metal surfaces. And in her Aluminum series, she fools the eye into thinking she's made pieces as delicate as ribbon, when in reality they have all the hallmarks of metal and are hand-fabricated with thin aluminum flashing.

Myers' exhibit "More or Less" opens today at Towson University in Maryland at the Center for the Arts - Holtzman MFA Gallery, and it will be on view through November 5th.

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