Making Stained Glass Window Art w/ Recycled Plastics | Kelly Jimenez & Alejandro Franco | Art Brunch

An edited archived video of Art Brunch ep24 with Kelly and Alejandro, Art Brunch streams live Sundays from 10-1ct on Twitch

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About Kelly and Alejandro:

Kelly Jimenez and Alejandro Franco are both Colombian artists whose primary discipline is the use of discarded materials to create highly crafted works of art.

Alejandro  is a multidisciplinary artist who works primarily in the arrangement of found objects assemblages as well as painting, Alejandro was born on October 3rd of 1982 in Medellin (Colombia), at the age of eighteen he moved to Florida where he started his artistic exploration

“Living in the industrialized world, surrounded by an excessive amount of objects together with the media, I find fulfillment in the creation of characters built from various objects that were previously resting without purpose. Looking out for similarities between objects is one of my greatest passions, striving to interpret thoughts. I feel the need to intervene within these forgotten elements, to work with their poetic potential to create convergence that engages people with a message. A never-ending search for beauty, making use of the detritus of everyday life”

Currently lives and works in St Louis  (US)

Kelly is an experienced  Art Director born on September 5th of 1991 in Bogota, Colombia with a demonstrated history of working in the textile industry as an Art director.

She moved to Florida at a young age where she pursued her artistic career with an Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.) focused on Fashion/Apparel production Design from the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.

Focused mainly on space intervention for film sets, editorial publications, and visual concepts for set design, uses everyday objects as tools for inspiration and exploration.

Currently lives and works in St Louis  (US)

Due to their affinity when working together and their urgency to preserve species and our land, they have been collaborating for the past three years creating a variety of works,  often in the form of stop-motion animation,  photography, sculptures, and lately, they have been fully focused in the creation of stained glass windows made out of single-use plastic.  “We are making use of the translucency and variety of colors of this material to present the audience with meticulously crafted pieces that turn a material so transient and detrimental into something of great beauty, worth preserving.  We are lovers of nature, we are always finding ways to celebrate it and preserve it.”  By spending all this time and effort to recover an undervalued material through labor, we hope to make an allegory of the efforts we need to make to preserve a healthy ecosystem, one where we can feel hopeful and proud, an essential desire has so often taken for granted.