I absolutely love sculpting, it’s one of the only arts where you can bend 3-dimensional reality to the whim of your imagination, seeding significance and the human essence into the absence of form- I’ve always found it amusing how great artists can instil whatever profound wonders, earthly struggles or a dichotomy of both into their creations; as if … Continue reading »
Category Archives: Sculpting Magic
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Philip Karlberg- Pinned Up Portraits
Hello piece of art, where do you hail from? The kingdom of Karlberg you say? Must be one imaginatively snazzy place to have come from because you’re one interestingly artistic piece of work. Yes, I just had a conversation with art, inanimate objects have a lot to say about the minds that made them. From … Continue reading »
Extreme Knitting- Looped madness
Loop after loop Agata Oleksiak crochets anything that enters her bubble; even people! Olek was born in Poland and graduated with a degree in Cultural Studies, she moved away from the ” industrial, close-minded Silesia,” a region in Poland, when she rediscovered her crochet abilities while in New York- where she’s been knitting art ever … Continue reading »
Ray Villafane- The Pumpkin King
This is a bit late but i thought it’d be worth the share for the next Halloween season. I know you artsy bunch are out there, so to inspire you to make something astonishing for the spooky season, here is Ray and is amazing pumpkin sculptures! He was born in Queens, New York and at … Continue reading »
Ron Mueck- Creating Giants
Hyperrealist sculptor Ron Mueck is one gifted fellow, who’s currently working in Great Britain. Early on in his career Mueck started making models and worked as a puppeteer for a childrens television show called Shirl’s Neighbourhood and later worked on the film “Labyrinth” for which he played the voice of Ludo. He went on to … Continue reading »
Yuki Matsueda- Breaking Out of Dimensions
I found Yuki Matsueda while scouting the internet frontier and just couldn’t get enough of his art! I couldn’t find any information about him so i decided to go ahead and ask him some questions about his life and his eye popping works. Born in Ibaraki, Japan in the 1980s, he grew up in a … Continue reading »
Jen Stark- Oozing Abstractions
My eyes burned with wonder when i gazed at Starks’ bright, multicolored sculptures. To think she builds these things layer by layer, painstakingly by hand- it must be a labor of love. She is the construction paper and glue model architect of the universe, mimicking the elements of time, nature and the cosmos. She says, “There … Continue reading »
Andy Goldsworthy- Ordering The Chaos of Nature
Watch out, here comes the zen master of environmental art! Andy Goldsworthys’ process & work possess a real deep and sentient understanding on the subtleties of nature- or rather, the nature of Nature. The environment is his medium, which he handles with an intimate, patient, considerate, hands-on approach. His principles of taking ones time, keen … Continue reading »
Antony Gormley- An Army of Clay
40 years- that’s how long Gormley has been producing these magnificent sculptures. He specializes in large-scale installations, creating hundreds to thousands of human like figures which he presents in a very odd way; he switches the roles of viewer and the viewed, making you feel as though you were being appreciated as a piece of … Continue reading »
Brian Dettmer- The Book Surgeon
Dettmer is a book surgeon; he removes the unnecessary clutter of words and reveals the hidden beauty of lost art, hidden within the neglected book. He transforms old media whose roll in society has deceased, into a novel way of creating fine art. He uses old dated maps, encyclopedias, dictionaries, science, engineering, art and medical … Continue reading »
Jung Kwang Sik- Paintings of Rock
Sik is a South Korean artist who is internationally recognized for his alchemical-like wizardry of fusing painting and sculpting. He uses granite which he chisels away at, carving and scratching a landscape which he later paints, making it look as though someone took shot from an aerial perspective. He creates an architectural feel to some of … Continue reading »
Michael Murphy- The Sums of a Whole
Having a sophisticated conceptual approach to artistic creation is hard to come by, but i found one such fellow today. Michael is always on the search for innovative methods to which he can execute his works, this is a quality that makes him bubble up from the sea of talent to the sunlight of attention. … Continue reading »
Jason deCaires Taylor- Atlantis Found
This is spectacular, my artsy friend just showed me this and I’m awestruck! Jason is a man whose collected many experiences in his life, as a child he lived in various places, one of those being Malaysia where he discovered his passion for the underwater microcosms of the coral reefs. This passion was fostered in … Continue reading »
Calvin Nicholls- Papered Ecosystems
God endowed some great talent onto Canadian artist Calvin Nicholls, who creates stunning sculptures using sheets of paper, yes paper! I can’t even fathom how much patience you need to form these amazing pieces. “Calvin has been creating his paper sculptures since 1986 from his studio north of Toronto Ontario, Canada. Working with sheets of … Continue reading »