From November 3, 2023 to January 4, 2024 the Alexandria Museum of Art will present the works of 17 eco-conscious artists that create art from materials that are usually discarded including wood, metal, glass, plastic, textiles, paper and found objects.

The artwork presented in this exhibition addresses environmental issues and the increased awareness and behavioral changes we need in order to adjust how we live and act on a daily basis and to protect our ecosystem, reduce pollution and conserve natural resources. The exhibition is curated by internationally award winning artist Eric Hess.

Wild animals have been present in art since the first artists painted images on cave walls or carved figures in stone tens of thousands of years ago. Today’s artists continue to use animal imagery as a way to address humanity’s interconnectedness with the natural world.

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, organized by the National Museum of Wildlife Art, explores the meaning of these creative expressions within the context of contemporary art. Featuring a diverse group of more than forty artworks from the National Museum of Wildlife Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition offers a wide range of styles in a variety of media, divided into four thematic sections: Tradition, Politics, Science, and Aesthetics.

Art that Elevates the Human Spirit

From the artistry of the 14-story architecture that showcases stunning views and light-filled spaces for children, to the stunning artworks created especially for the facility, Children’s Pavilion is designed to bring comfort, inspiration and healing to all who enter its doors.

Art enhances and humanizes the hospital environment for patients, families, and staff. And a growing body of evidence shows infusing the arts into places of healing can improve both body and spirit.

The arts can be particularly important in mental health treatment: Healing emotional injuries. Helping patients understand themselves and others. Developing capacity and space for self-reflection that can lead to changing behaviors and thinking patterns.

Besides being inspired by the art that surrounds them in Children’s Pavilion, children who come here for treatment will also be able to make their own art -- through painting, music, dance -- to dovetail with the art on display.

The art here not only elevates the human spirit, but the mission of mental health treatment. It brings a sense of joy and extends the idea of healing beyond these walls of Children’s Pavilion to the community that rallied to build it.

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Kimpton Hotel Fontenot To Open In New Orleans On May 11 - the hotel's living room lobby features stunning custom art, including a butterfly installation by Paul Villinski located behind the front desk.

An exhibit at Connecticut’s Fairfield University Art Museum, featuring artist Paul Villinski, combines scientific study and artistic interpretation.

Join us on DECEMBER 28 as we venture virtually to tour New York-based artist Paul Villinski’s home in New York’s Catskills Mountains. During the tour, see some of Paul’s early works and hear about his decision to switch from painting to sculpture. Paul will also share insight into his creative process including works he exhibited at the Taubman like "Flower Bomber."

Can art save the world? Join a team of three incredible Artists for the Earth, plus Nora Lawrence of Storm King Art Center and EARTHDAY.ORG's own Shelley Rogers, to discuss the ways that moving, educational art can make our planet more sustainable.

The Fairfield University Art Museum announces an exhibition exploring environmental issues through avian art from the 19th-21st centuries.

Villinski’s creatures spiral and swarm over wire figures and wooden horses. They flit along guns, topping their barrels. They escape from overalls and are dramatically backlit on walls. Mostly, they tell the story of their creator, a man who is also fragile but enduring.

VOLTA New York is officially back this week, after an unexpected cancellation last year. The 2020 edition has a new location—Metropolitan West—and director, too, Kamiar Maleki. From March 4-8, 53 international galleries will gather to present solo and curated booths of work by a range of contemporary artists.

After several years’ absence from participating, several galleries from VOLTA’s “extended family” will return to the fair, including Jonathan Ferrara Gallery from New Orleans, presenting a solo project by celebrated American sculptor Paul Villinski.

New York artist Paul Villinski created “Currents” to celebrate New Orleans’ musical influence around the world.

Paul Villinski’s installation of birds made from shiny black LPs symbolize hope or links to the divine in many cultures.

Artist Paul Villinski has been working with discarded debris for almost twenty years now. He began exploring waste as an artistic medium after seeking treatment for alcohol and drug addiction.

The Taubman Museum of Art is pleased to present two major projects by New York-based sculptor Paul Villinski (American, born 1960), an artist known for his site-specific installations and transformative use of found materials: the large-scale sculpture titled Passage and the solo retrospective Farther, highlighting several new works made specifically for the Taubman Museum of Art.

Birds, butterflies, flying machines, and a sinister, wickedly abstract belt made of empty liquor bottles -- Paul Villinski's works are one mechanized step away from chaotic, destructive motion

The emotions and "emotional culture" behind Paul Villinski's work.

Paul Villinski uses daily objects such as gloves and cans to create his delicate airy sculptures. With swirl of butterflies and wings sculptures, he expresses thematics like addiction, recovery and environment.

The Hospital commissioned an art installation by New York sculptor Paul Villinski, whose soaring clusters of butterflies—forged from recycled cans—inspire feelings of beauty, hope, and renewal among those who view his work.

Paul Villinksi's gurgling "Butterfly Machine" steals the show inside the Morgan Lehman Gallery.

Paul Villinski's "Air Chair," a fantastic flying wheelchair maching made to uplift spirit and interest, hangs above viewers' heads at MIA.

Paul Villinski transformed his favorite vintage records into a flock of vinyl birds taking flight from an old turntable sitting on a stack of other lps.

Paul Villinski's wall-mounted installation is made from vinyl records by musicians including the Gary, Indiana native, Michael Jackson. 

They start as trash. Discarded cans, littering the streets of New York City. Paul Villinski collects them. And then he transforms them.

Villinski, who is from New York, brought his partner and three studio assistants to install nine pieces in the space, she said. With 100 to 200 butterflies per sculpture — including one that is 8 feet tall — there are 1,500 to 2,000 butterflies now inhabiting Tayloe Piggott, Ripps said. 

Paul Villinski discusses his recycled butterfly installations.

With its wingspan of 33 feet, "Passage" is a nearly full-size glider plane fashioned entirely from discarded lumber Villinski salvaged from the streets of New York City.

Villinski’s installation is fabricated from recycled and repurposed wood that the artist salvaged from discarded shipping pallets, police line barriers, broken furniture, and construction sites around New York City. Enveloping the life-sized glider is a cloud of 1,000 black butterflies; a motif the artist is widely known for and which has been prominent in his work for over 15 years.

Mr. Villinski, a glider pilot and record collector, explores themes from his life, including music and flight; and recycled materials, such as audio paraphernalia, musical instruments, discarded wood, and aluminum cans. 

Paul Villinski's butterflies featured in Myra Hoeffer's interior design space.

Villinski's piece featured in a Wall Street Journal article.

Paul Villinski featured in a New York Post article.

The Wall Street Journal reviews Paul Villinski's work in Manhattan. 

“Emergency Response Studio” is a conceptual project by the artist Paul Villinski, inspired by post-Katrina New Orleans. Visiting the hurricane-ravaged city in August 2006, the artist wished he could transport his studio down from New York to create work in response to the tragedy. Instead, he converted a 30-foot Gulf Stream Cavalier trailer into a mobile live-and-work studio space. 

A post-disaster trailer home can hardly be called a work of architecture. But Nikolaus Pevsner's well-known aphorism about Lincoln Cathedreal -- a bicycle shed is a building, but the cathedral is a piece of architecture -- might favorably apply to Paul Villinski's reinvention of a FEMA-style trailer as a genuine piece of design. 

The Times Picayune reviews Paul Villinski's orange butterfly installation at the UNO St. Claude Gallery.

Villinski cast an eye on a mass-produced, widely hated symbol of failure, turning a 30-foot Gulfstream Cavalier trailer — much like the 50,000 built for the Federal Emergency Management Agency following the disaster of Hurricane Katrina — and turning it into an artistic survival headquarters. 

Flying can mean simply leaving the ground and flying up into the sky, but it can also denote the realization of our hopes and dreams. New York artist Paul Villinski is coming into the limelight with works that express this kind of meaning and feeling.

Paul Villinski contributes one of his solar-and-wind-powered repurposed FEMA trailers to New Orleans.

Paul Villinski takes discarded beer cans and turns them into wall displays of colorful butterflies; he takes work gloves left in the gutter and stitches them into giant wings, the gloves' fingers fluttering like feathers; and when he was in flood-ravaged New Orleans in 2006, he roamed the streets looking through the trash people carted out of ruined homes and collected their warped old records, then began working with those too.

Inspired by post-Katrina New Orleans, New Yorker Paul Villinski created Emergency Response Studio (ERS), a FEMA-style trailer transformed into a fully functional, sustainably built mobile artist studio.

Over seven months, Villinski transformed a salvaged FEMA-style trailer into a rolling, off-the-grid live/work space that could house displaced artists, or allow visiting artists to “embed” in post-disaster settings.

New York-based artist Paul Villinski has built a really impressive mobile art studio for "Paul Villinski — Emergency Response Studio." It's a 30-foot Gulf Stream Cavalier trailer that the artist essentially gutted and transformed into a solar-powered, off-the-grid workspace.

New York artist Paul Villinski created his solar-powered, “green”-designed Emergency Response Studio from a used trailer similar to the ones issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agencyafter Hurricane Katrina.

Rice Thresher reviews Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio.

Villinski, who has spent much time in New Orleans throughout his life, conceived the mobile live/work studio in response to the displacement of New Orleans artists after Katrina.

Artist Paul Villinski's Emergency Response Studio started out with a conversation between New Orleans arts community legend Jonathan Ferrara and Beth Galante, New Orleans Director of Global Green, in an example of cultural and environmental worlds meshing to great advantage. 

Emergency Response Studio, by Paul Villinski, is a solar-powered, mobile artist's studio, repurposed from a salvaged FEMA-style trailer. This sustainably re-built, off-the-grid living and work space is designed to enable artists to "embed" in post-disaster settings, and respond and contribute creatively. 

Participating New York artist Paul Villinski, who visited after the storm, unveiled his futuristic Emergency Reponse Studio, a FEMA-type trailer bought at a government auction and converted to a self-contained mobile studio complete with solar panels, a wind turbine, geodesic dome skylight and bamboo-based cabinetry.

Paul Villinski transformed a Fema-style trailer into a solar-powered artist studio that would allow artists to "embed" in post-disaster settings and "contribute creatively."

It started as a FEMA trailer, but artist Paul Villinski added solar panels, a dome, a 40-foot wind turbine and lots of interior artists' amenities to turn it into an 'Emergency Response Studio.'

Villinski's "Beer-can Butterflies" featured in an article in Met magazine. 

The devastated Lower Ninth Ward will figure prominently as the location for several installations, including Paul Villinski's.

Paul Villinski's repurposed FEMA trailer is shown at the Contemporary Arts Center.

Paul Villinski's work featured at the MoMA.

New York-based sculptor Paul Villinski has transformed a standard metalskinned FEMA trailer in to "Emergency Response Studio"; he's added solar panels and a towering wind turbine, and proposes that artists occupy such mobile housing during emergencies.

Sailplane pilot Paul Villinski focuses his 'bird-brained' artistry on flight.

Paul Villinski, a 46 year-old New Yorker whose Airlift expo is on view at the Ferrara gallery, is also a flaneur of sorts, a connoisseur of some of the most prosaic and poignant trash the streets have to offer. He is also a pilot of sailplanes and gliders, and his artwork often alludes to ascendance, as experience and as metaphor.

Villinski's wheelchair glider is the centerpiece of "Airlift," his charming solo exhibit opening Saturday at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery.

Jennifer Samet explores how Villinski's past experience wtih flight inspires his work today.

Paul Villinski's multimedia collaboration with Linn Meyers, Lumenroom, reviewed by the Pittsburg Post-Gazette. "Lumenroom," an installation exhibit at Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery, is a fantastical medley of whimsical shapes and shadows created by local artist Linn Meyers and New York artist Paul Villinski.

The Pittsburgh Tribune reviews Paul Villinski's 'Lumenroom.' Article by Graham Shearing. 

"Lost Gloves," writes Paul Villinski. "The city is full of them. Having read this, you will see them everywhere."

"On Air" is curated by Paul Villinski, whose own "Consolation (For My Father)," 1996, a sculpture suspended by 14 wire cords attached to a hundred leather gloves creating a ten foot span of wings, takes a shopworn theme and comes up with an affecting work which is a straightforward and elegiac and singularly affecting piece.