Jodie Fink is driven by a deep aversion to waste, as well as a profound fascination with beauty found in aged and weathered materials. Her art is a testament to this spirit, crafted primarily from discarded remnants of our environment-rusted metal, old wood, weathered tools, balloons, and natural materials like twigs and bone.

These materials, once deemed worthless, become the building blocks of Fink’s creations: small monuments to the passage of time and the potential for renewal in every moment.
The jellyfish all share the same purpose: to remind us to care for our oceans. So much of what we discard finds its way into the sea. Plastics and balloons drift through the water, mistaken for jellyfish and eaten by marine animals with tragic results.

These works are both beautiful and cautionary. They invite us to look closer, think deeper, and remember that protecting our waters—and the life within them—is a responsibility we all share.

Jodie Fink is passionate about recycling and has made sculptures from detritus for years. She’s shown these homages of our lives in New York, New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, France, and Africa. 

Trained as a photographer at Pratt Institute, she uses her keen eye to make spontaneous, whimsical, and often ironic creations from the world around her. The found materials, discarded in the environment, give her sculptures a raw, primitive feel. Fink is also an abstract painter; most of her paintings are on recycled canvases and panels. 

Fink was awarded a Ford Foundation grant for photography, and several artist residencies at Foundation Karolyi in France, and Dorland Mountain Colony in California for sculpture. She exhibits her work nationally and internationally.