THE AVOID CONVERSATION TABLE BY MICHAEL BEITZ
This could come in handy on those awkward dinner time arguments, or better yet, a really bad date. Michael Beitz has created the “avoid conversation dining table,” featuring a central hump in the middle to obstruct the diner at the other end of the table. You will now be speaking to a piece of wood.
FLYING, FLOATING SCULPTURES BY CEDRIC LE BORGNE
Like his Voyageur sculpture that travel around the world, Cédric Le Borgne invites everyone to view daily life in a fresh way, to rise up, to dream. By abolishing barriers, his work of exploring spaces is sensitive, his poetry subtly interacts with each place it comments upon. From sculptures made of chicken wire to photo […]
WIRES
This is my personal project I did over a half a year ago. It is a 2.0 version of the WIRES project I did last year: https://www.behance.net/gallery/24324249/WIRES-v1 Hope you like it! Thanks for watching and for your support! You can follow my work on Facebook and Instagram!
YORKSHIRE SCULPTURE PARK
Fresh on the heels and current run of KAWS’s beautiful show, Yorkshire Sculpture Park just opened another stunning show by Not Vital, the first major UK show of the Swiss and China and Rio de Janeiro and Niger-based artist.
NEON SCULPTURES BY MERYL PATAKY
Meryl Pataky is an alchemist of many mediums; she applies her passion for bending neon to an ever-progressive range of materials to create sculptures that relate to her concept of universal connectedness. From silver and copper to neon, iron and carbon, Meryl’s work utilizes its own materiality to make a statement about the material of […]
In conversation with Ceramic Artist, Michael Boroniec
Michael Boroniec is an American artist, based in Massachusetts who studied at Rhode Island School of Design. The peculiarity of his art resides in the use of ceramic as a primary material. Boroniec’s Spatial Spirals series involves to create sculptural objects by modelling vessel thrown on the wheel, into open spirals. His body of work […]
The Future Now Symposium
There’s less than two weeks to go until Future Now: The Aesthetica Art Prize Symposium opens at York St John University. The event is an opportunity for you to meet the UK’s leading art organisations, publications and curators. Tackling key themes in today’s artistic climate, Future Now focuses on the arts ecosystem within a broader social […]
BOOMBOX RETROSPECTIVE
The installation includes Toyan’s (2002), a group of speakers eight feet tall by twelve feet across inspired by Jamaican sound systems, and Presidential Vampire Booth (2002), complete with a stocked bar and Presidential seal. Sachs’s work is crafted from a wide range of materials such as plywood, foamcore, batteries, duct tape, wires, hot glue, and […]
COATING THE ROOMS IN BALLOON
The balloon becomes part of the existing architecture as the air presses against the plastic to outline the solid shapes of the room. The space is transformed through this new texture, light, and a monochrome color. We’re longtime fans of the ephemeral installations of Penique Productions. They’ve created a surreal series of single-color rooms. The collective, […]
CUBAN ROOTS OF WIRE AND PAPER
Born in 1962 in La Havana, Jorge Mayet is a Cuban expatriate artist living and working in Mallorca, Spain. He says, “I recreate with wires, paper, and other elements my own landscapes which at the same time form part of my culture, my roots, and the identity of my town” From his website: Devoided of […]
HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY
We are always excited to see new works from Gregory Euclide and his unique installation meets sculpture meets painting style. And it gets us thinking about when the next Bon Iver album is going to drop. Greg (can we call you Greg?) has built this work in the heels ofthe artist’s recent exhibit at the […]
NICK GEORGIOU
He installs his work in the urban environment—currently Tucson, though Georgiou hails from New York. Georgiou’s materials are all found and re-used. He relies on newspapers he finds on the street and discarded books. His work, he says, is a “comment on the regeneration of the printed word in contemporary society.”
BALLOON ANIMA
Jason Freeny has wowed us before with his toy series articulating the anatomical insides of Micky, Hello Kitty, Yoshi and other beloved cartoons. Now he’s taken on a balloon animals, creating transparent plastic shells that mimic the sausage-like shapes of a twisted (no pun intended) dog. He’s also created an aesthetically similar take on a […]
EXQUISITE MACHINES OF WOOD AND PAPER
In an interview with This is Colossal, Agdag said, “Aesthetically, the driving force behind the creation of works I make stem from a need to see and imagine objects, machines and environments in a way I’d like to see them, to imagine how I think they work and expose their inner workings. All too often, […]
THE HORROR OF SARAH SITKIN
Sarah Sitkin is a Los Angeles based artist. Her sculptural works are made in wide variety of media including but not limited to silicone, clay, plaster, resin, and latex.
