“Controlled Burn”exhibition at Lyndon House Arts Center

From Athens-Clarke County Leisure Services:

The Lyndon House Arts Center presents the Summer Series of exhibitions including Controlled Burn by Tom Schram, on view through August 30, 2025.

The work in Schram’s exhibition primarily uses post-consumer materials in place of raw new materials. He sees these used materials as having come to the end of their human-intended functional lifecycle. As they cross his path, and before entombment in a landfill, he collects them. This strategy demands innovation and planning due to scarcity. Schram commits to using only the amount of a certain material that has serendipitously come into his life. This practice has fostered a long interest and investigation into a material’s history and various lives, most recently leading to a focus on how we, as a society, consume and what we waste, investigating the industrial processes that reshape natural resources into modern consumables, as well as the general perception of these consumables as carrying little to no cost. 

All exhibitions at Lyndon House Arts Center are free of charge and open to the public. Exhibitions are on view during regular gallery hours Tuesday and Thursday 10:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m., Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.  Children must be accompanied by an adult.  

For more information, please call 706-613-3623.