SCULPTURE

Contemporary surrealist sculpture is a hot topic in 2016. Artists are increasingly discovering new, inventive art forms and stretching the limits of their imaginations to produce these unique 3-D formations...

Metaphorical Skin: The Art of Kristine Schomaker

July 13, 2016

ART, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION, SCULPTURE

Los Angeles based multimedia artist Kristine Schomaker layers streaks of paint over mannequins and other objects associated with vanity and gender to illustrate the ways in which we are influenced by societal pressures, which seek to maintain the status qu...

Amanda Louise Spayd: Meet the Maker

Kylie Dexter

July 5, 2016

I would imagine that upon entering Amanda Louise Spayd's workroom, you would smell cotton candy, spearmint and blue heaven milkshakes. You would hear the pitter patter of tiny eggshell blue feet and maybe c...

Neon Sculptor Meryl Pataky

Rowan Coughlin

June 28, 2016

Mixed media artist Meryl Pataky has a refreshing take on the world that comes out in her art. With a focus on neon sculptures, she works primarily in a medium that is undeveloped compared to traditional med...

David Umemoto Dreams of Brutalism

Dylan Bryant

June 18, 2016

David Umemoto’s sculptures lay bare the skeleton of structure, embracing the art form in a contemporary brutalist style highly reminiscent of his architectural past. Brutalism, popular in architecture (particularly government buildings) during the second hal...

Delphine Gigoux-Martin’s Anti-Beauty Aesthetic

Deianira Tolema

June 15, 2016

“Even the songs of birds are to be feared, because their voice obeys the one of their master,” wrote German philosopher Theodor Adorno in Aesthetics. As the sun caresses the earth with its gracious lines...

Susan Amorde: Emotional Baggage

June 13, 2016

We humans have a love/hate relationship with our emotional baggage. We subconsciously carry the warm fuzzy part of it with us because it serves both as a winter coat protecting our raw wounds and most tende...

MARCK: Video Sculpture Installations

Jackie Lemmon

April 20, 2016

Imagine you pass a sign as you are walking along a foggy road. Seeming to have made progress in your journey, you look around, only to see that you have come back to the sign you passed earlier, though you had been walking straight. In no way affected, you cal...

The Crystallized Conservator: Tyler Thrasher

Evan Senn

February 18, 2016

Tyler Thrasher’s crystallized beetles and bugs make fairy tales seem possible. As if touched by the magic of love and life with a nymph’s kiss, Tyler’s creations seem ancient and full of mystical power. Upon fi...

Jaime Freestone: Taxidermy, Sculpture & Extreme Recycling

Natalia Fedoruk

December 29, 2015

We recently had the chance to chat to UK artist, sculptor and taxidermist Jaime Freestone, who has been amalgamating his skills to create remarkable art. With such a zealous and open personality, it is hard not...

The Dreamlike Figurative Work of Sibylle Peretti

Bella Harris

December 28, 2015

ART, PAINTING & ILLUSTRATION, SCULPTURE

The captivating work of Sibylle Peretti beckons the deepest part of the imagination, where the virtues of these youthful subjects thrive in a constant dreamlike state. Her poetic narrative is both delicate and disturbing, settling in a place where reality inte...

Patrick Jacobs’ Intricate Dioramas

Raymond Klecker

December 19, 2015

Peer deep into the vast hand-crafted landscapes of Brooklyn sculpture artist Patrick Jacobs, who creates intricate three-dimensional dioramas through hours of intense focus and incredible skill. Using a collect...

Look, Don’t Write: Pencil-Tip Micro-Sculptures by Salavat Fidai

Dylan Bryant

November 30, 2015

I know at this point you must be wondering: Are those tiny sculptures, or just really big pencils? Okay, so maybe you didn’t entertain that theory for long, but believing that Salavat Fidai’s intricately wrough...

The Whimsical World of Stitch of Whimsy

Anmarie Soucie

November 12, 2015

Parading the walls in dreamy pastels and sugared candy colors: Welcome to the whimsical world of Stitch of Whimsy, created by the very talented Sara Leigh. A South Florida-based artist, seamstress, and self-proclaimed huntress, Leigh specializes in what she ca...

Shallow Grave Studios: The Assemblage & Tattoo Art of Jason Stieva

November 11, 2015

With Halloween behind us, some of you dark romantics (like myself) may be feeling gloomy about waiting a whole year before the spooks, skeletons, and zombies rise again among the spider webs and fallen leaves o...

The Impossible City Sculptures of Luke O’Sullivan

Dylan Bryant

October 23, 2015

SCULPTURE

If you found yourself wondering “where’s Waldo?”, you aren’t alone. Luke O’Sullivan’s vast cityscapes (silkscreen prints on wood) are filled with nooks and crannies just begging to be explored, each more eye-ca...

A Peek into the Intricate World of Freya Jobbins

Kim Crowie

October 14, 2015

Ever wondered where your pretty little dollies went to die? Felt nostalgia over those lost childhood hours of pretend? Well, fear not. There is a heaven for your old Barbies, and presiding over this fantastical world is Freya Jobbins. The Australia-based artis...

mark waldman, sweatbox studios, assemblage, assemblage art

Sweatbox Studios: The Assemblage Art of Mark Waldman

October 12, 2015

Mark Waldman’s sculptures and mixed media assemblages deliver direct, undiluted statements using powerful symbols such as hearts, hands, crosses and knives placed inside hand-weathered, handcrafted, and painted...

Apocalyptic Dioramas by Lori Nix

Jantine Zandbergen

September 8, 2015