Sculpture
Why Create Art? Or, Wrestling the Muse
“Maybe it was the mysterious disappearance of my mother that even now leads me to scan the sky.”
~Agostino Arrivabene, painter; Milano, Italy
Matthew Shlian, Paper Engineer, Michigan, USA
“There is immediacy to paper. You may take a sheet and begin to work, or plan something out methodically. It is a medium with a memory and one with which you can naturally create a dialogue”. — Matthew Shlian
Read MoreKirsten Stingle: Into the Shadows
“In this new collection of artwork I’m doing, ‘Shadow Circus,’ I follow the tradition of southern storytellers and looking at the shadow self. There’s a lot that’s going on subconsciously, and I’m trying to push it into my work. We all have a polite veneer yet we also all contain tragedy and brutality and absurdity. Most of the time we try to hide that.”
~Kirsten Stingle, ceramicist
New Works by Aron Demetz
Aaron Demetz, previously featured in the Combustus piece, “We the Innocents,” (for a reposting, see below) has several new distressed wood sculptures on exhibit at Gazelli Art House in London, starting March 28th. Along with fellow sculptor Shan Hur, Demetzis is featured in the exhibit The Tainted.
Read MoreLight and Shadow: Update on Artist Kumi Yamashita
Artists were asked to create a portrait of someone they know personally who is still living. Yamashita’s winning entry is a portrait of her niece comprised of approximately 10,000 tiny nails on a wooden panel painted white and a single unbroken sewing thread.
Read MoreIn Natural Time: Interview with American Ceramicists, Jennifer McCurdy and Eva Funderburgh
“It is actually quite a responsibility to create something that cannot be undone.”
~Jennifer McCurdy, ceramic artist
Seeing the Extraordinary In the Ordinary: Khalil Chishtee’s plastic bag sculptures
“It goes back to the Sufi approach of my upbringing where worth does not depend on what you inherit, it depends on who you are.”
~Khalil Chishtee, artist
Clay Artist Connects Understanding of Our Past with Vision for Enlightened Future
“A particular resonance comes from the voices of the beloved dead, who shared these memories with me. Yet, though my work is largely elegiac, it also celebrates and honors the living community.”
~Susannah Israel, clay artist, winner of the prestigious Fletcher Challenge Premier Award
Marlaine Verhelst, porcelain artist, storyteller, The Netherlands
The personalities of Marlaine Verhelst’s clay pieces are so delightfully eccentric, one imagines they must have tumbled out from a realm of the fantastic. Or else we have slipped in.
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