Michelle F. Solomon
Dennis Scholl is transforming collected objects into art in his first solo show in the U.S.
On the desk in Dennis Scholl‘s Miami Beach art studio is one of the collectorturned-artist’s most treasured items. It’s a collection of presidential bottle caps from when Scholl was a boy living in Linden, N.J.
When he was five years old, he began collecting the bottle caps. Every time the milkman came to the house to drop off a two-quart glass bottle of milk, Scholl would keep the cap and put it on the wall. It took him six months to collect them all- Millard Fillmore was particularly elusive.
“I just couldn’t get Millard Fillmore. Damn Millard Fillmore,” he says of the 13th president.
