Excess Dress: A reflection on fast fashion
By USF alum Georgia Brabec (’22)

On display April 1-30, 2023
Kalmanovitz Hall Atrium
University of San Francisco

Presented by the Thacher Gallery
in conjunction with the Environmental Justice Speaker Series and Earth Day

About the work:
According to the Council for Textile Recycling, the average American sends seventy pounds (70  lbs)  of textile waste to the landfill each year. Inspired by Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress (made of 200 light bulbs), artist Georgia Brabec wanted to visualize this statistic to confront ideas of industrialization, individualism, and our pervasive culture of overconsumption.