Next a visit to the American Folk Art Museum located across the street from Lincoln Center.

Included in their extensive permanent collection are multiple works by the contemporary artist Lonnie Holley.

Based in Atlanta, Holley is known for his sculptures made with recycled and found objects.

He is also known for his acclaimed career as a musician.

Curator Brooke Wyatt spoke with NYC-ARTS about Holley's work as presented in the museum's exhibition "Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught I'm Brooke Wyatt, and I'm the Luce Assistant Curator at the American Folk Art Museum.

This is "Material Witness: Folk and Self-Taught Artists at Work."

"Material Witness" focuses on, of course, the materials and the substances like clay, wood, rock, stone, metal, that artists work with to make the objects that are in this museum's collection.

Lonnie Holley is working in Atlanta, currently making large scale paintings and sculptures, and he is also a sound artist and musician.

In that work, he's very collaborative working with other artists.

For "Material Witness" I wanted to highlight how Lonnie Holley collaborates with materials that he uses.

The sculpture on view here is called "Cleaning Up After the Games.

Holley has manipulated wire to create these silhouette forms that repeat throughout the piece, and put those together with a plethora of found objects.

Upon closer inspection, you can identify a metal dust pan, a plastic bottle, some plastic cutlery, all manner of fiber and fabric, pieces of artificial flowers or greenery worked together to create this form and space.

Lonnie Holley's transformed, you know, what some people would consider trash into a work of art that has its own kind of life and then invites viewers to interact with it in space.

It was exciting to show also a painting of Lonnie Holley's that dates from 1991.

It's not a painting where you see those silhouette forms that Holley returns to so much.

But you do see the way the artist has applied paint to this composite or plywood surface, and I see it as very sculptural, the way that he moves around the picture plane in terms of the composition and his use of color and form.

I wanted to think about a relationship between Lonnie Holley working in paint, Lonnie Holley working with sculpture and found objects because crossing those different domains is so fundamental to his process.