Tag: Sculptures
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Marvel at Manabu Kosaka's Hyperrealistic Paper Sculptures of Retro Objects
It’s one thing to marvel at the inner workings of a transistor radio or a timepiece, but for artist Manabu Kosaka, that curiosity reaches a whole new level. Using nothing but paper, the artist makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail. Not only does read more
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LR Vandy's Rope Sculptures Disentangle Histories of Colonialism and Transportation
For millennia, humans have navigated seas, rivers, and oceans as avenues for trade, exploration, conquest, and colonization. During the Age of Discovery—an era interwoven with what’s known as the Age of Sail—European explorers and traders embarked on journeys around the world to map previously uncharted continents, trade commodities, and establish new socio-political outposts. Imperial forces read more
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Myth, Masks, and LEGO: Ekow Nimako's Elaborate Afrofuturistic Sculptures
Mythology, landscapes, and technology converge in the meticulous, Afrofuturistic sculptures of Ekow Nimako. Using thousands of black LEGO bricks, the Ghanaian-Canadian artist explores legends and folklore of the African diaspora, creating figurative embodiments of allegorical creatures and spiritual beings. Through a single, modular medium, he highlights a wide range of cultural phenomena, from graffiti writing read more
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Historic Architecture Emerges from Stone in Matthew Simmonds Ethereal Sculptures
From unassuming hunks of Carrara marble and limestone, Matthew Simmonds carves realistic, miniature gothic cathedral arches, stairwells, and colonnades. Often based on architectural details of real places, such as cities around Tuscany and Germany’s Bamberg Cathedral, the sculptures portray intimate details of corners, vaulted ceilings, arcades, and stairwells that can sometimes be peeked through additional read more
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Lisa Nilsson’s Cross-Sectioned Paper Sculptures
Surrounded in her Massachusetts studio by pins, glue, and piles of brightly colored paper strips, a visitor might initially mistake Lisa Nilsson for a reclusive arts and crafts teacher. But as her nimble hands purposefully curl the paper into shapes, and then magically weave the shapes into identifiable forms, a new impression emerges. Nilsson is read more
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Whimsical Beaded Sculptures by Amy Gross Meditate on Our Planet's Tiniest Life Forms
After more than two decades as a commercial textile designer, often working digitally, Amy Gross was drawn to making something that felt more immediate and tactile. “I started making beaded jewelry, something I could hold and feel,” she tells Colossal. The beading techniques gradually merged with canvases, which over time became more three-dimensional. They were read more
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Kudzu Vines and Synthetic Leaves Entwine in Joyce Lin's Irrepressible Sculptures
Dubbed the “vine that ate the South,” the infamous kudzu plant has a reputation. The fast-multiplying, invasive arrowroot was brought to North America in the 19th century and promoted to ease erosion, although the hot, muggy climate of the Southern U.S. proved too accommodating. For decades, kudzu has spread at a rapid speed, swallowing up read more
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Yuko Mohri’s Fragile Sculptures Confront the Inevitability of Change
On the first preview day of the 2024 Venice Biennale, a torrential downpour sent artists, curators, journalists, and dealers scurrying for shelter. While others fretted about how the art on view would weather the sheets of rain, Yuko Mohri, the sculptor representing Japan that year, felt unusually relaxed. If all this water destroyed a new read more
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Black & White, Ceramic, And Totally Personal: The sculptures of Katherine Morling – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Other artworks, though undoubtedly originating in autobiography, point toward more universal themes. Undercurrent, for example, depicts two rotary telephones arranged so that each acts as the base of the other. One of the telephones appears normal, ready to use, while the other has keys exploding out of the dial and letters, similarly, blasting upward from read more
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Ethereal Kites by Hai-Wen Lin Transform into Elegant Garments and Sculptures
In works that merge sculpture, fashion, and kite-making, Hai-Wen Lin traverses the thresholds that connect one’s physical self, the mind, and the elements. The artist describes their practice as “an act of reorienting: looking back, looking forward, looking in, looking up.” Using a wide range of materials, Lin creates vibrant, abstract compositions in textile often read more
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Traditional African Baskets and Pottery Meet Pop Culture in Donté K. Hayes' Sculptures
Redolent of African basketry, hairstyles, headwear, and pottery, Donté K. Hayes’ abstract ceramic sculptures may be interpreted as poetic vessels, even though they lack traditional openings. While we easily associate clay pots and round woven forms with ideas related to storage, protection, and even spiritual significance, they also nod to the human head as a read more
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L, Artist Whose Mysterious Sculptures Cast Spells on Viewers, Has Died
L, an artist whose sculptures and paintings imbued galleries and museums across the US with spiritual potential, has died. ARTnews was unable to confirm a cause of death for L, whose passing was announced this week by various galleries that had shown the artist’s work. The Los Angeles–based artist would have been either 41 or read more
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The Best Booths at Zona Maco 2026, Where Sculptures Using Natural Materials Shine
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Accepting Their Strangeness: the Sculptures of Clementine Bal – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Similarly, Bal’s work in also influenced by her adult life. “My children also inspire me a lot,” Bal adds. “My characters have sometimes taken their looks, their postures, their reactions. I believe that there is an important part of self-portraiture in my characters.” In building this fantasy world, Bal draws from personal influences while creating read more
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Mike Leavitt Talks Trash with New Exhibition of Mutated Fake Out Branded Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Your piece “Little Carbon Footprints’ is a Little Tykes Cozy Coup ride on toy, constructed fro m four upcycled wood pallets. It’s pretty faithful to the original.Did you have a Coup laying round to reference? Doesn’t every parent? Ours fills with rainwater out in the yard. And yes, I definitely used it for reference, measured read more
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Gil Bruvel explores the Interconnectedness of Everything with his Wooden Sculptures – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Sculptor Gil Bruvel’s work seems to be both modern and craft movement inspired at the same time. They are made of hundreds of parts; intricate, yet, when viewed form a distance, are smooth and cohesive. We’ve asked the artist to delve into his process and themes and a bit of his background as an artist. read more
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Good Pain: The Broken Skate Deck Sculptures of Haroshi – Hi-Fructose Magazine
It’s quite exciting for me to see how unskilled skaters could make tricks, somehow much more [exciting] than to see skilled skaters make tricks easily. Haroshi attributes much of his success to the lessons learned through the DIY ethos of skateboarding. He recalls attempting to master his first ollie. At first, the idea of jumping read more
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Predictive Dreams: The Sculptures of Katsuyo Ayoki – Hi-Fructose Magazine
The decorativeness quoted from other ornamental art in my works are not for challenging; it is for my own expression as a fine artist.” But compared to Hirst and Koons, Katsuyo’s work seems a little anachronistic, a little awkward in a generation accustomed to justifying every fl ourish, embellishment and technical sympathy to the enforcers read more
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Nothing To Hide: The Sculptures of JinYoung Yu – Hi-Fructose Magazine
“My creations represent those who have chosen a life apart from others, as if they are invisible or non-existent beings. Instead of adapting themselves to human society, they enter into their own personal space, avoiding other’s interruptions.” Jinyoung’s vision, message and technique hit full stride in 2008’s A Family in Disguise. Shown as a solo read more
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With The Skill of A Surgeon Brian Dettmer Reveals The Sculptures Hidden Inside Forgotten Books – Hi-Fructose Magazine
Conceptually, I like the idea that I’m working with something that has already’ died’ andI ’m bringing it back to life.” In fact, he’s often repurposing items that may not have otherwise found a second life. When he lived in New York, Dettmer often sourced books from boxes that people would leave on the sidewalk read more
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