Artist Jason Hackenwerth is using the familiar and comforting medium of balloon artistry and turning it into massive sculptures. Each piece reminds us of some fantastical organic or...
Tag - Sculpture Inspiration
The Macabre Animal Ceramics of LEM
LEM is an art collective of-sorts that was formed at a Finland petrol station in 2008. En route to Helsinki, three art graduates, Saara Kaatra, Lotta Veromaa and Laura Itkonen decided to...
Artist Niyoko Ikuta Uses Layers of Glass to Create Swirling Geometric Sculptures
Niyoko Ikuta creates flowing geometric shapes seemingly come to life out of layers of laminated sheet glass. They come in green and blue hues and remind the viewer of the fluid forms of...
Artist Richart Stainthorp Twists Metal Wire into Sculptures of the Human Form
British artist Richart Stainthorp uses metal wire to create powerful and captivating human figures. And to their realistic forms, he adds a touch of the surreal, giving them wings or horns...
The Multi-Faceted Sculptures of Yoshitoshi Kanemaki
Japanese sculptor Yoshitoshi Kanemaki has found an unusual niche: He likes to take a giant piece of wood – often a long – and turn it into a very unusual sculpture. Among his...
Dustin Yellin’s Psychogeographies
You know how in Jurassic Park that mosquito is trapped in the amber, preserved and still in tact, DNA-wise? That’s the sort of vibe I get when I look at Dustin Yellin’s...
The Material Cannibalism of Leonard Drew
Leonard Drew engages in something that has been termed ‘material cannibalism.’ That sounds a lot worse than it actually is, because Drew is an American sculptor who brings together...
The Blinged Out Animals of Dusciana Bravura
Italian artist, Dusciana Bravura, combines a classic national art method – mosaic – with her own sense of wit and humor to create the sweetest, most fun and fresh menagerie of blinged...
Kazuhiro Tsuji’s Hyperrealist Sculptures
After looking at Kazuhiro Tsuji’s hyperrealist sculptures of Andy Warhol, Abraham Lincoln and Salvador Dali, you’re never going to want to go to a Madame Tussaud’s wax museum again...
The Eccentric Artwork of Rebecca Horn
If Rebecca Horn is not a cult artist, it’s hard to define what we mean by ‘cult artist’. But the truth is that Horn isn’t really viewed as a cult artist at all. From her distinctive...
Urs Fischer’s Disintegrating Sculpture, Melodrama
Urs Fischer is a neo-Dada artist, born in Switzerland but operating from New York. In the true spirit of Dada, there is often tense provocation in his work, seen most recently in his 2013...