Orianne Cosentino, a Queens native, has found inspiration in the orange parking tickets that cause most New Yorkers distress. She has used thousands of discarded tickets to create more than 200 paintings and drawings of New York City landscapes.
As a student at the School of Visual Arts in the ’90s, she began collecting the abandoned tickets, which come from all five boroughs, some with furious sentiments scrawled upon them.
She waited 10 years before doing anything with her stockpile of tickets, and now friends still donate them. Her process begins with one of the photos she’s snapped of a New York City scene, and then she glues down the tickets as a foundation.
Once she has an abstract composition, she references the photo’s image and starts painting or drawing. Cosentino has sold her pieces at art shows, in cafes, and online through her website and Instagram account. Prices range from $200 to $3,000 based on size.
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