Chen Long-Bin’s Meticulously Crafted Book Sculptures
“In my artwork I always use printed matter – discarded books, magazines, and computer printouts; the cultural debris of our information society. The sculptures I create reference Eastern and Western...
View ArticleManuel Marti Moreno’s Transient Iron Nut Sculptures
Via Colossal: “Sculptor Manuel Martí Moreno lives and works in Valencia, Spain and forms these wonderful figurative pieces out of iron nuts. Via email Moreno says that he is most interested in showing...
View ArticleChristo And Jeanne-Claude’s Massive Fabric-Accented Landscapes
Christo and Jeanne-Claude wrap and accent their environments with millions of square feet of rope shroud and fabric. Their wrapped and accented installations recontextualize the objects and their...
View ArticleSusanna Bauer Threads And Weaves Over Small Natural Objects
“Most of my pieces are small sculptural objects often based on found natural materials. I like giving time to the inconspicuous things that surround us and often go unnoticed, paying attention to...
View ArticleCarsten Höller’s Interactive Installations
Carsten Höller’s work intends “to trigger the organic responses that underpin the structure of learned behavior, to unbalance the rational mind…Using his training as a scientist in his work as an...
View ArticleJohn William Keedy’s Anxiety-Themed Photo Series
“It’s Hardly Noticeable explores the world of a character who navigates living with an unspecified anxiety-based mental illness. He negotiates situations constructed to highlight the impacts and...
View ArticleJon Smith’s Multi-Textured Explosive Light Bulb Photography
A chemist by trade, Jon Smith‘s high speed photography captures exploding light bulbs. He first fills the bulbs with various textural elements, such as feathers, sand, candy, dust, and paint. He then...
View ArticlePaul McCarthy’s Witty And Demented Sculptures
Paul McCarthy creates provocatively whimsical sculptures. Perhaps his most recently well-known sculpture is Balloon Dog, literally a giant inflatable red balloon animal. His other work seeks to...
View ArticleStuart Haygarth Transforms Found Objects Into Beautiful And Functional Designs
Stuart Haygarth constructs beautiful sculptures out of recycled and found materials. He typically finds large quantities of one object, like eyeglasses, plastic bottles, eyeglass arms, mirrors, or...
View ArticleRosa Borreale’s Hyperrealistic Oil Paintings
Rosa Borreale is an Italian artist who graduated with a degree in Modern Literature. She’s worked as an actress and performer, but eventually decided to teach herself oil painting by copying the Old...
View ArticleBen Dehaan Alters The Printing And Drying Of Photographs By Removing Light
Ben DeHaan‘s “Uncured” series captures the decay of a printed photograph as a result of the removal of the UV light used to instantly dry the ink on the page and cure the image. These portraits...
View ArticleSeverija Incirauskaite’s Metal Embroidery
Lithuanian artist Severija Incirauskaite embroiders everyday metal objects like pans, spoons, watering cans, shovels, and even cars. Incirauskaite drills holes into the metal objects, then uses cotton...
View ArticleMike Carr’s Abstracted Realist Paintings
Mike Carr, aka China Mike, has previously been known for his photorealistic paintings, but has since ventured into the realm of abstraction. Using a variety of media such as spray paint, acrylics, oil...
View ArticleNosego’s Colorful Illustrations of Pastiche Characters
Yis “Nosego” Goodwin creates whimsical illustrations composed of various styles and references. His work is almost collagist, combining elements not only of realism and cartoonish abstraction, but...
View ArticleLucas Simões Creates “Quasi-Cinema” Using Photographs As Film Frames
For Lucas Simões‘ Quasi-Cinema series, he stitches folded photographs together in the form of a wave and fixes them onto a support of wood and cloth to create the appearance of cinema. He uses...
View ArticleSculptures Of Prominent Figures Made Out Of Wonder Bread
Oakland-based artist Milena Korolczuk is best known for her work in film, but has recently turned to the medium of Wonder Bread. With the bread and water, she forms a malleable entity, and using...
View ArticleAngelika Arendt’s Bright and Intricate Clay Sculptures
Angelika Arendt creates her vivid sculptures out of a variety of materials. Arendt often twists and shapes polymer clay to form dripping and swirling patterns, but also uses foam, wood, and acrylic...
View ArticleMark Manders’ Physical Poetry
Mark Manders‘ sculptures seem to be driven by a poetic narrative, and the fact the he used to practice the linguistic form of poetry should then come as no surprise. His meticulously constructed...
View ArticleSpencer Tunick’s Large-Scale Nude Installations (NSFW)
Spencer Tunick designs and installs nude human bodies into landscapes and photographs or films them. The blending of the color and texture of human skin with industrial or natural landscapes is stark...
View ArticleC. Owen’s Stunning Portraits Of Taxidermied Animals
C. Owen Lavoie’s (better know as C. Owen) series of photographs entitled Trophies captures the emergence of exotic creatures out of darkness. Because they are shrouded in so much darkness, these...
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