Before becoming an artist, Thomas Kovachevich began as a practicing physician in New York City. Attracted by the materials available in a hospital—gauze, cotton swabs, sutures, pharmaceutical containers, tissues, syringes, and tape—he was determined to transform these objects into something else—something inventive, witty, and resonant with new meaning. Recognizing the beauty in the mundane—like the cast-off plastic containers and packaging tape that comprise the two major bodies of work in the exhibition—and painting, melting, arranging, and stacking it into luminous works of art, Kovachevich makes the disposable essential.