05/22/2026
This week we are featuring Lenore Solmo, an artist in Brooklyn, New York. Learn more about her work below:
"Lenore Solmo is a Brooklyn-based mixed media artist whose practice centers on rescuing single-use plastic bottles from New York City streets before they enter the waterways. Self-taught and driven by environmental urgency, she came to art in 2020 after a decades-long career in fashion accessories, bringing a trained eye for material, form, and detail to an entirely new medium.
Her sculptures take the shape of sea creatures- octopus, jellyfish, and other harbor inhabitants, assembled from found single use plastic bottles, adding heat and vintage beads from her archives. The work draws a direct line between Brooklyn's discarded waste and New York Harbor, asking what we've lost and what we've replaced it with.
Lenore teaches upcycled art workshops across New York City, including at public parks, senior centers, and venues like Governors Island, Freshkills Park, and as a resident teaching artist for July 2026 in Washington Sq. Park. Her community programming brings the same material transformation into participants' hands, turning trash into something worth keeping."
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