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Natural Elements Emerge from Vintage Garments in Trompe L’oeil Sculptures by Artist Ron Isaacs
Left: “Up and Up” (2019), acrylic on birch plywood construction, 43 × 14 × 4 1/2 inches. Right: “Aviary” (2019), acrylic on birch plywood construction, 42 1/2 × 23 × 4 inches. All images © Ron Isaacs Vintage clothing and … Continue reading
Lucy Sparrow Opens The Bourdon Street Chemist, a Fully Stocked Felt Pharmacy
Although Lucy Sparrow is adept at treating scrapes and bouts of indigestion, her medical specialty lies in helping folks suffering from heart disease, IBS, and various illnesses caused by fiber deficiencies. The U.K.-based artist set up shop with The Bourdon … Continue reading
Swirling Plumes of Black-and-Gold Rattan Fill the Ceiling of a Bangkok Lounge
The rattan devotees over at Enter Projects Asia are back with a sweeping installation that swells through a Bangkok restaurant overlooking the Chao Priya River. Occupying the lounge of Spice & Barley, two 30-meter pillars ascend from the ground level before … Continue reading
Wooden Benches Unfurl into Pasta-Esque Strands in Pablo Reinoso’s Works | Colossal
“Curly Bench (2019), photo by Rodrigo Reinoso. All images © Pablo Reinoso, The unbound slats of Pablo Reinoso’s unassuming benches curl sideways and up walls in a tangle of wood and metal. Based just outside of Paris, the French-Argentine … Continue reading
An Abandoned Indonesian Church Shaped Like a Massive Clucking Chicken | Colossal
JULY 21, 2015 KATE SIERZPUTOWSKI Towering above the trees in a densely forested area of Indonesia lies a giant chicken. The gigantic structure has the body, tail, and head of the bird, even holding open its beak in what appears … Continue reading
Surreal Sculptures of Translucent Glass and Clay Explore the Body’s Transformative Processes
“I have always viewed the body as a transitory object,” writes artist Christina Bothwell. From human-animal hybrids to pregnant creatures to figures fused together, Bothwell’s oeuvre suspends various life forms in states of flux: a baby precariously rests on a mother’s … Continue reading
Sweeping Gestures of Negative Space and Typography Complete Bronze Works by Jesús Curiá
“Uve” (2020), bronze, 17 7/10 × 15 2/5 × 9 1/10 inches The bronze sculptures of Spanish artist Jesús Curiá are intentionally ambiguous. Evoking ancient relics, the patina-covered works denote no explicit gender or ethnicity. Instead, the sculptures center … Continue reading
Suspended Blossoms and Patchwork Characters Imagine a Pastel Universe of Overabundance
“T. A. U. B. I. S.” (2020). All images © Tau Lewis, courtesy of Cooper Cole Considering the possibilities of non-gendered motherhood, Toronto-born artist Tau Lewisstitches together oversized characters and floral tendrils that occupy a lavish fictional world. Textured swatches of … Continue reading
An Eccentric Cast of Hybrid Creatures Mirrors the Diversity and Humor of Human Experience
“I will not burn bridges” (2020), stoneware and mixed media, 23 x 10 x 10 inches From a dowdy California quail to an incendiary horned lizard, Alessandro Gallo’s peculiar menagerie of animal-human hybrids is teeming with personality. The colorful characters … Continue reading
Imagining a Covid-19 Pandemic Memorial | Kottke
Even though we’re still in the midst of it, The Atlantic commissioned three designers/artists to design hypothetical Covid-19 memorials. Ian Bogost writes: So this might seem like a strange time to imagine memorializing the pandemic in a formal way. A premature … Continue reading
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