Dutch Artist Folkert De Jong creates life size plus figurative sculptures out of styro and polyurethane foams. These sculptures possess a deviant mentality offering the viewer both humor and horror. De Jong’s narrative objects and scenes reference social boundaries and investigate elements of humanity in a modern world. The artist attended the Academy for Visual Arts and a two year residency Rijksacademy for Visual Arts,[…..]
“Godspipes” is a new exhibition of sculptural works created over the last decade by L.A. based artist Peter Shelton. The exhibition opened earlier this year at L.A. Louver and contained one hundred and eighty-eight vessel type forms that reference both the human body and simple mechanical structures. Shelton is a graduate of UCLA (1979), and throughout his career the artist has continued to allude to[…..]
Patricia Piccinini works with a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, video, sound, installation and digital prints. Her major artworks often reflect issues such as bioethics, biotechnologies and the environment and have gained a huge international recognition after her participation in the 2003 Venice Biennale. Her sculpture often examines hybrids in technology and life; creating cross bred animals, humans and machinery. In October 2003,[…..]
Ron Mueck had an early career as a model maker and puppeteer for children’s television and films, notably the film Labyrinth for which he also contributed the voice of Ludo. Now his sculptures play heavily with scale, continuing to reference his experience with set design. He became instantly popular after being picked up by collector Charles Saatchi and included in the Sensation show in New[…..]
Roxy Paine’s inventions range from elaborate contraptions to deceptively simple forms. Often employing technical proficiency, trompe l’oeil, and ambiguity, Paine investigates the nature of reality and artificiality. The artist was born in 1966 in New York, where he currently lives and works. He attended the Pratt Institute and recently had solo shows at James Cohan Gallery, New York; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; and Musee d’Art[…..]
Best known for her ambitious sculptural installations like Kitchen and Backyard, Liz Lou creates work with luminous patterned surfaces that appear to be a type of painting, but are actually full size rooms completely covered in glass beading. Liza Lou’s work embraces the American visionary tradition simultaneously operating as conceptual and craft. In 2002 Lou had an exhibition titled Testimony at Deitch Projects, New York,[…..]
Homostatic Feedback or Natural Body Water is the title of a new piece by Tavares Strachan. In this work the artist collected his own urine, which he then transformed into purified drinking water using a fabricated distillation system. The work will be on exhibit this month at Pierogi in Brooklyn along side three other major works. The Ronald Feldman Gallery has also sponsored projects by[…..]
