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.
ANATOMY OF WAR
Noah Scalin’s series “Anatomy of War,” includes sculptures that question our culture of violence. He has sculpted two weapons, an AK47 and a Smith & Wesson, “clinically dissected, revealing a remarkably human set of internal organs,” though “with a conspicuously absent brain.” With these alterations, Scalin says, “The objects become as fragile as the lives […]
QUEER URNS AND QUILTS
Grayson Perry began his career as a controversial artist best known for creating contemporary radical ceramic art and for being a transvestite. He’s since become an exceptionally successful artist, his media ceramics and textiles. We love his urn “Modern Family,” depicting a child with two fathers.
THE MINI TIME MACHINE
Thomas Doyle sculpts tiny, intricate worlds, at a 1:43 scale or smaller. The artist says his work “mines the debris of memory” and that the pieces “depict the remnants of things past—whether major, transformational experiences, or the quieter moments that resonate loudly throughout a life.” The glass itself contains and compresses the world within it, […]
MIHOKO OGAKI’S MILKY WAY SCULPTURES
Japanese artist Mihoko Ogaki has combined the night sky with the body in these sculptures constructed from plastic and embedded with LEDs. The light shines out through thousands of tiny holes and illuminates the walls surrounding the sculpture but when they are placed in bright room, the bodies appear to be suffering and dying.
PEDRO MARZORATI’S BLUE MEN
Argentinian artist Pedro Marzorati recently installed a climate-change focused sculpture in Montsouris Park, Paris. The piece, which consists of bright-blue humans emerging from, or sinking into, a pond. He created the piece for the 21st Conference of Parties (COP21), a climate conference in Paris, which aims to reach international agreements surrounding climate change policy. Specifically, […]