Denise Treizman is a New York City-based artist who creates sculptures, installation-based works, and paintings from discarded materials. For Denise, the city is the ultimate creative source, providing her with an unending supply of eclectic and everyday objects. Her work questions pervasive consumer culture and waste by re-appropriating overlooked and underutilized materials into playful and unexpected works of art. By recontextualizing “worthless” objects—old tires, car bumpers, and other fragments found in the trash—Denise not only challenges preconceived notions around what constitutes art, but also human’s use, and subsequent disuse, of objects and the built environment.