Oct 25
What A Cut-Up: How Milton Mizenburg and a chainsaw carved out a place for art in Oakland
Arts and Culture, Oakland, Visual Arts No Comments »“A friend of mine introduced me to the greatest thing in the world—a chainsaw,” said Milton Mizenberg, chuckling. “It was like driving a Ferrari.”
Mizenberg has put his bone saw to good use for nearly two decades. His crafty touches pervade the East 41st Street block where he lives. There are the carvings he etched into his front door, and the shards of colored glass he set into the windows. And then, set up on two of the block’s otherwise empty lots, there’s his fifteen-piece sculpture garden. Guidebooks refer to this space as the Oakland Museum of Contemporary Art, mostly because Mizenberg simply put up a sign proclaiming it so. Read the rest of this entry »
