Boris Bally is the ultimate recycler. He has been "Humanfacturing" TM street signs into sleek, modern, yet funky furniture and accessories for over fifteen years. His highly collectible works appear in permanent collections and installations all over the world. A shortlist where Bally's works are iappear in installations or permanent collections includes: the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Renwick Gallery, Washington; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Herman Miller, Inc., Boston; and the Indiana University Art museum, Bloomington.

"Signage has become my passionate medium of choice not only because of the recycling message, but also its appeal to me as an extreme variation on the age-old tradition of enamelling," says Bally.

"These 'urban' expressions of glass-on-metal also represent many years of collecting hard-to-find and specially weathered signage. The materials employed here are gleaned from ten-foot-high, thirty thousand pound scrap piles. Each of these reflective pearls represents sifting through thousands of ordinary oyster shells. I extract the most important elements of these gems and match them to create exciting color and image combinations. Lastly, by sawing and filing fine details graphics are highlighted and accented."

"Good art naturally follows a cyclical path emulating the rhythm of life. This perpetual search for alternatives, variations, and challenges becomes a repetitive pattern of discovery and incremental growth."

See Boris Bally in the Press!

The "Transit Chair"