Armatures: Savannah Bustillo and Peter Scheidt
Artistry is proud to present Savannah Bustillo and Peter Scheidt’s Armatures in the Inez Greenberg Gallery at the Bloomington Arts Center. Peter Scheidt and Savannah Bustillo are two artists who transform everyday materials into powerful reflections on identity, history, and interaction. Scheidt reimagines discarded chairs by dismantling and rebuilding them, blurring the line between function and form while honoring the original object’s craft and character. His surreal, reconfigured furniture invites viewers to reconsider how objects shape our physical and emotional spaces. Bustillo combines making and anthropological investigation to explore spaces in the margins – where identities not easily reconciled are placed. She explores the residues of language, memory, and cultural inheritance through delicate, participatory materials like pulp, tea, and spices. Her work investigates the weight of words and the labor embedded in small, repetitive acts—shaping toothpicks, picking flowers. Together, their practices uncover hidden systems of meaning, inviting audiences to engage with the overlooked and the everyday in entirely new ways.
