Scott Radke: Sculpting the Shadowlands
There is a powerful force at work behind the sculptural pieces of artist Scott Radke. Through dark hollows and isolated forest clearings, his characters emerge all gnarly fingered and looking like malignant...
Popovy Sisters: A Dollhouse Haunted By Haute Couture
The Popovy Sisters, Ekaterina and Elena Popovy, twin sisters from Perm, Russia, have taken doll making into a whole new level. Mesmerized by the charisma of personalities as diverse as Marilyn Monroe and Ma...
Capable Hands: The Sculptures of Jessica Dalva
“Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That you're deserting for better company?”
– lyric from “Nothing Better” by The Postal Service
Jessica Dalva, AKA Jessica Laurel Louise Dalva, is a profoundly capabl...
Alessandro Boezio’s Anatomic Poetry
In our subconscious, the human form can be altered to fulfill a variety of desires, horrors and creative psychoses. Fingers roll out like a carpet into digit-shaped centipedes; feet emerge from the palm of ...
Dark Enchantment: The Art of Handsome Devils Puppets
Jewelry, hand-stitched clothing, and tiny tattoos - it’s all in the details with Handsome Devils Puppets. Add to that, elongated, knuckly, wicked fingers and a dry brush skin effect that is positively chalky (l...
Into the World of IX Arts: Special Feature With Thomas Kuebler
Forget mind-altering chemicals to trigger over-stimulation - put yourself face to face with one of Thomas Kuebler's sculptures, so alive that your senses feel heightened, and the stir of excitement cannot be matched. Such is the art of hyperrealism. IX Arts, a...
Underwater Lifeforms, the Sculptures of Margarita Sampson
A miscellaneous collection of fabric, ceramic, furniture, tableware, and other found objects are altered and melded together to form colorful jewelry and sculpture. In these works by Australian artist Margarita...
Bitter | Sweet: An Interview with Crystal Morey
Visual artist Crystal Morey takes us on a journey with her milk-white, porcelain figures in Entangled Wonders, a series that will be included in the beautiful.bizarre curated international group exhibition 'Bit...
Transmitting Messages: Interview with Johnny Adimando
Imagine that you have been sent, telepathically, an extensive coded message. Your head is overflowing with unknown symbols. Twists and turns of designs like those made with a Spirograph, sometimes words, images of people, and lots of geometrical shapes meld to...
The Transformative Magic of Kirsten Stingle: Interview
Kirsten Stingle: Storyteller, Performer, Philosopher and Sculptress who continuously brings to life innovative and emotive ceramic sculptures that are impossible to forget. Her journey has been long, evo...
Ceramic Sculptor Juz Kitson: Death Makes All Equal
Saggy, heavy bulbous growths sprouting hair and antlers in earthy colors or muted pastels are a signature look in Juz Kitson's sculptures and installations. Repulsive yet alluring, Juz is a ceramic artist from ...
Mary McGill: The Art of the Story
Ceramic artist and native Californian Mary McGill strikes both a symbolic and aesthetic balance between humans and nature, and beauty and time-induced flaws, as seen in her sculptures of the female figure and anthropomorphic cats. In one of her most powerful p...
The Macabre Magic of Laurie Hassold’s Sculptures
Dark and foreboding collaborations between science and art, Orange County, California-based artist Laurie Hassold creates fantastical creatures that carry a calm and quiet magnetic energy with them. Her biomorp...
The Darkly Sweet World of Nobu Happy Spooky
It would take a steady and incredibly talented hand to embellish these small sculptures into portraits of their original subjects. Italian artist Domenico Scalisi of Nobu Happy Spooky has not only managed to do...
Kate MacDowell’s Honest and Haunting Sculptures
Originally inspired by the sight of a decaying seagull on a beach, artist Kate MacDowell was struck by the parallels between the delicate skeletal system and the delicate feathers of the life form. Much of this talented artist’s work directly responds to human...
The Fabric of Nature: Mister Finch and His Fairy Tale World
“Scraps of thread and fabric are stitched and pulled into fairy tale creatures looking for new owners and worlds to inhabit. Finch works alone and makes everything himself by hand in a studio full of books, g...
Mary O’Malley: Ceramic Sculptures Bloom With Life
Land Mermaids (you know who you are) everywhere will be delighted to come across ceramic dinnerware that crawl and bloom with ocean life. Originally from New York and now based in London, Mary O'Malley's na...
The Amorous Complexity of Camilla Taylor
Dark and ominous as the night is black, artist Camilla Taylor’s talents go far and beyond her seemingly gothic-based creations—this multi-talented artist uses every kind of media to create imaginative worlds, creatures, drawings, paintings, prints, jewelry...
The Unique Wood Sculptures of Joachim Seitfudem
"Fathom the unreal and the dreamlike as well as the deepness of the unconsciousness"
You could say that carving is embedded in the DNA of artist Joachim Seitfudem, even Joachim himself feels that he had no o...
Wild Abandon Between Here and Eternity: Interview with Forest Rogers
Forest Rogers is an artist who has managed to trigger a multitude of simultaneous feelings when I look at any of her sculptures, from a tender melancholy to musings on deeply ancient powers and the many fac...