EXQUISITE TRASH

Name: Exquisite Trash
Address: Kansas City, MO, US

KANSAS CITY BASED

ARTIST DUO.

Works

Hypnobunny, February 2024. Ink, watercolor, paint markers and leather paint. 12”x16.” This piece is part of a larger series of watercolor portraits by Edward, but this one is a collaboration with Lauren (painting the hypnobunny mask with paint markers and leather paint).

Galactic She, Ceramic glaze on vintage ceramic ashtray.

Blue River Discovery Days: Drawing from Nature. Community artmaking event (sketchbook cover illustration by Kit Landwehr).

Face Vase. July 2023. Trash, paint marker. 6”x10.” We experiment with the idea of trash being reimagined into art with very minimal modification.

An illustration created with charcoal pencil and collage, a person sitting in a chair looking out a window.

Dr.Ph. Portrait No.3. February 2024. Dr. Ph. Martin’s Radiant Concentrated Watercolor, Ink. 11”x15.”

A colored pencil sketch of Lauryn Hill wearing avant garde.

Exquisite Trash is a collaboration between husband and wife Edward Cavazos and Lauren Allen. The name is a nod to the surrealist game Exquisite Corpse because of how our disparate styles and approaches to art combine into one creative endeavor. We are restless makers, experimenting with any medium we can get our hands on and allowing ourselves to deep-dive into avenues of creativity that resonate.