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Villinski is best known for his sculptural wall works. In the early nineties he began collecting discarded beer cans and cutting them into butterfly shapes. His wall works utilize hundreds of individually cut butterflies mounted into different organic compositions. He has also developed works to
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Villinski created a mobile artist studio by salvaging a
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1074:"On West 53rd Street, MoMa Has No Monopoly on Art"
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748:"Artist's Metamorphosis Takes Flight in Chelsea"
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54:in 1984. He lives and works in
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