Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Lucy McRae is a visual artist and body architect most famous for collaborating with Dutch artist Bart Hess to produce Lucyandbart, a project that explores futuristic human forms that could result from plastic surgery and evolution. Using the body as a canvas, Lucyandbart create grotesque sculptures that directly attack vanities typical in both men and [...]
The world is full of nice, ordinary little people who live in nice, ordinary little houses on the ground. But didn’t you ever dream of a house up on a tree top? How about atop the largest museum in Manhattan? Big Bambú, an installation by twins Doug and Mike Starns, dominates the roof of the [...]
Wednesday, December 9, 2009
It is rare to be able to follow the complete evolution of an artist’s ideas, but through the work of prolific sculptor Constantin Brancusi, it is possible to see the evolution of his thought in precise intervals, to follow his idea from its inception, through its intermediary phases into ultimate realization. From the 1920s to [...]
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Fabio Viale is a sculptor based in Turin, Italy. His most famous works are those that manipulate marble to appear as a drastically different material, such as styrofoam or rubber. – Yatzer says, “The push of his work comes from an ability to deceive, and more accurately prompt questions in the viewer. Often these questions [...]
On June 25th, Cliff Garten Studio will unveil the “avenue of light” project in Fort Worth, TX. The design firm developed and installed six, 36-foot sculptures that stretch for a half mile along the town’s historic Lancaster Avenue. We love that the sculptures are made up of multiple, stainless steel discs that catch the sunlight [...]