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Entries with the keyword "Sculpture"

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Aries2010 Snowboarding Time Capsule
(11 February 2010) - With four spider-like legs holding up a central pod and painted Home Depot-orange, Portland, OR artist Brian Elliot's hand-machined time capsule Aries2010 looks like a futuristic play on one of Louise Bourgeois' creatures. Hydraulic tubes tucked into leg joints...
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Katherine Morling's Sculptural Ceramics
(22 January 2010) - by Richard Prime Working out of one of South London's hidden creative hubs, the mystical New Cross and Deptford, Katharine Morling creates whimsical and often outlandish sculpture from porcelain and ceramics. A world away from the often stuffy stigma...
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Hvass&Hannibal: Losing the Plot
(12 January 2010) - Taking data visualizing to a conceptual level, Danish design studio Hvass&Hannibal's upcoming exhibition "Losing the Plot" at London's Kemistry Gallery engagingly reinterprets info into artworks. (Click on all images for expanded view) The Copenhagen-based duo created silkscreen prints, wooden...
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Valerie Sloan Jewelery
(18 December 2009) - by Zeva Bellel Photos by Fabrice Fortin Before launching her Paris-based couture label Valslo, French jewelry designer Valerie Sloan worked as a sculptor—a background that reveals itself in the masterful play of light, shadow and texture in her designs. Produced...
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Link About It: This Week's Picks
(11 December 2009) - The upshot of Internet wanderings by CH's editors and designers over this past week, our list ranges from a hybrid vacuum-boombox to sculptures that radically reimagine the concept of the bust. 1. Journey to Zero TED conference founder Richard...
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Jeremy Dean: Futurama
(10 December 2009) - Known during the Great Depression as "Hoover Wagons," artist Jeremy Dean's new series "Futurama" draws on the historical phenomenon of horse-pulled cars, repeating this lamentable bit of history with his own hybrid auto carts fashioned from the back ends...
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Oscar Tuazon: Bend It Till It Breaks
(23 November 2009) - Oscar Tuazon understands the aesthetic power of tension. The Seattle-born sculptor's latest exhibition, using primarily industrial and found materials, Bend It Till It Breaks builds on this theme with an ambitious installation in France. Having opened this month, "Bend...
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Os Gemeos: Vertigo
(09 November 2009) - São Paulo street art heroes, Os Gemeos—known for mesmerizing the international art scene with their colorful characters and experimental style—marked a homecoming with their long overdue solo show at the city's highly revered fine arts school, Fundacao Armando Alvares...
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Smoked Volume 1
(27 October 2009) - by Warren Rubin Nearly a year old, Smoked Volume 1 is still a platform for the importance of pipe blowing within the glass blowing industry. Connecting pipe blowers to a broader audience, the book aims to highlight how pipe blowing...
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Vanessa Prager and Lizzy Waronker: Little Dream Installation
(29 September 2009) - For one night only, WeSC's L.A. concept store will host a conceptual installation featuring the works of artists Vanessa Prager and Lizzy Waronker. Crafting a fairytale world in an outdoor terrarium, the duo's exhibit consists of a secret garden-like...
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Michael Leon Skull Behind Sunglasses Limited Edition Sculptures
(22 September 2009) - Portland-based artist Michael Leon has been busy creating limited edition sculptures of his notorious Skull Behind Sunglasses image, a portrait he has brilliantly reworked since its conception in 2005. Selling out of the black and white versions minutes after...
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Felted Animal Sculptures by Amelia Santiago
(13 August 2009) - Portland-based artist Amelia Santiago uses needle felting to create wool fiber sculptures of dogs and other animals commissioned by pet owners. A technique that uses nothing but a barbed needle, Santiago has laboriously sculpted more than three hundred sculptures...
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Alex Pinna: Big Pinocchio
(06 July 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab If Sardinia's beautiful seashores aren't alluring enough, the little town of Tortolì is hosting Alex Pinna's giant sculpture, "Big Pinocchio." At over 50 feet long, the huge iron Pinocchio—painted white and lying on...
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Hudson River Piling Project Preview
(10 June 2009) - by Ariston Anderson Figurative sculptor Joan Benefiel decided to further beautify one of Hudson River's scenic piers with a new installation of sculptures to be mounted atop abandoned pilings. The Hudson River Park, stretching five miles up Manhattan’s Westside from...
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Simon Denny: Watching Videos Dry
(08 June 2009) - by Paolo Ferrarini of Future Concept Lab Currently exhibiting the powerful work of Simon Denny, in the scope of young Italian art galleries, T293 Gallery in Naples, is one of the most promising. Owners and curators Paola Guadagnino and Marco...
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Jonathan Schipper: Irreversibility
(13 May 2009) - With his high-concept mechanics, artist Jonathan Schipper's latest exhibition, "Irreversibility," is just as stunningly clever as the animatronic sculpture we watched him build a few years ago. Held at Brooklyn's Pierogi Gallery, the show is both a spectacle and...
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Julia Chiang: My Rotten Apples
(28 April 2009) - Drawn to things considered unworthy and unwanted, artist Julia Chiang's sculpture series My Rotten Apples embodies her unmistakable ability to transform the undesirable into covetable objects. This unique edition of 21, smaller-scale rotten apples stems from an upcoming large-scale...
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Andreas Nicolas Fischer: Data Visualization Art
(16 March 2009) - Combining science with art to talk about some of the pertinent issues of our times, Andreas Nicholas Fischer's data sculptures are beautiful executions of scientific information. The Munich-born, Berlin-based artist, like Chris Jordan, is leading the way in a certain...
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Sculptor Emily Valentine Bullock
(13 March 2009) - Sydney-based Emily Valentine Bullock sculpts, primarily using feathers, which she collects from birds killed by cars and cats, and from people's dead pets. More recently, she bought a trapping and killing machine to collect feathers from Australia’s registered pest,...
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Adam McEwen: Switch and Bait
(12 March 2009) - by Kelsey Keith Adam McEwen is irreverent, witty, and whip smart (like any British artist worth his salt) and "Switch and Bait," his latest show with veteran gallerist Nicole Klagsbrun, is no exception. The exhibition, which opened last week in...
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Dufala Brothers: Trophy
(27 February 2009) - I'd never heard of Steven and Billy Blaise Dufala, two brothers producing art together under the moniker Dufala Brothers, until yesterday when Amy Adams, director of Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, sent me a couple of jaw-dropping images of their recent...
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Christian Jankowski: Living Sculptures
(13 February 2009) - Part of the Public Art Fund's current programming, Christian Jankowski's Living Sculptures, on view in the Doris Freedman Plaza in Central Park through April 2009, is a must see for New Yorkers and visitors alike. Essentially statues of people presenting...
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Liu Jianhua: Dream In Conflict
(14 January 2009) - Chinese artist Liu Jianhua has built a model of the Shanghai skyline using just poker chips and dice. Widely known for his quirky ceramic sculptures, his exhibition Dream in Conflict has just been opened at the Galleria Continua in...
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Lou Zhenhong
(15 December 2008) - While there was a plethora of talent on view at this year's Art Asia fair in Miami, I was particularly drawn to the sculptures of Lou Zhenhong at the Contemporary by Angela Li booth. Made from painted resin or...
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Reuben Margolin: Magic Wave
(15 December 2008) - Kinetic sculpture remains one of the most enchanting fusions of technology and high art. A perfect example opened recently near Zurich at the Swiss Center of Technorama. Artist Reuben Margolin worked with museum staff to suspend 450 aluminum rods...
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Photographer Alejandra Laviada
(01 December 2008) - Mexico City most often conjures visuals involving a profusion of bright colors and bustling energy, possibly even tacky souvenirs or dice hanging from rear view mirrors. While her hometown's influence is mildly apparent in her work, Alejandra Laviada's photosculpture series...
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Stephanie Backes: Wolkengraber
(21 October 2008) - Dortmund-born sculptor Stephanie Backes is making her solo debut at Berlin's Loop gallery. Entitled Wolkengraber, that's “cloudgrabber” in German, this exhibit of sculptures melds the aesthetic of biology with bionics, suggesting alien-like skeletons and spindly arthopods. Wolkengraber Opening reception:...
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Eduardo Srur: Sobrevivencia
(21 October 2008) - Known for his headline-grabbing, large-scale public interventions—like the one in which he placed giant PET bottles along the Tiete River in São Paulo to make a point about the notoriously filthy waterway—Brazilian artist Eduardo Srur's latest campaign, "Sobrevivencia" (survival)...
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Max Lamb at Johnson Trading Gallery
(09 October 2008) - by Tamara Warren British contemporary furniture designer Max Lamb brings the essence of the outdoors to American turf with his solo exhibit at the Johnson Trading Gallery in New York City. Sturdy and stalwart, Lamb's work has a primal, natural...
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Giles Round at ICA
(02 September 2008) - Native Londoner Giles Round creates sculptures and assemblages that resemble the confounding models of a minimalist stage set designer and his work is currently being shown at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. Rectilinear frames evoke the woodwork of Donald...
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Kittiwat Unarrom: Bread Body Parts
(06 August 2008) - Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips...
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Lucas Isawa: Koinobori
(31 July 2008) - By combining traditional Japanese Carp-shaped wind socks with paper lanterns, artist Lucas Isawa has turned his floating and illuminated school of fish into a breathtakingly peaceful spectacle. Building on koinobori (wind socks decorated with colorful Carp and flown in...
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BMW Kinetic Sculpture
(08 July 2008) - One particularly stunning highlight from the 125 exhibits packed into the newly-renovated BMW Welt in Munich is a mechatronic installation by ART+COM, the Berlin-based interactive media company. The project uses 714 metal balls that are individually suspended one barely...
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David Ryan
(08 July 2008) - I first fell for David Ryan's work after seeing a couple of small pieces in Mark Moore's booth at Scope New York last year. Now Ryan is back with a solo show in his signature style at Mark Moore...
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The Cloud: MIT Mobile Experience Lab
(20 June 2008) - Located in downtown Firenze, the MIT Mobile Experience Lab put their brilliant minds together to create The Cloud, a large interactive sculpture. Consisting of 15,371 individual fibers and 65km of fiber optics, The Cloud senses human movement and tactile...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Alex Da Corte, Artist
(02 June 2008) - Drawing on found objects (and people), kitsch and the banal, Philadelphia-based artist Alex Da Corte makes multimedia work that belies its material origins. This video visits his studio/apartment and his recent gallery show at Fleischer-Ollman to gain some insight...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Lee Stoetzel
(28 April 2008) - Juxtaposing nature with man-made objects, Pennsylvania-based artist Lee Stoetzel uses woods chosen for their natural flaws to make large-scale sculptures. In this video we visit Lee at his home studio where he's disassembling his life-size replica of a VW...
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Joseph Conforti
(11 April 2008) - Joseph Conforti is a master of repetition. A raku ceramicist based in New York City, he creates hypnotic wall sculptures comprised of individual panels, each of which contains hundreds of ceramic pieces. Raku, for those unversed in ceramic speak,...
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Mark Andreas: Reactive Sculpture Series
(10 April 2008) - After exhibiting up and down the eastern seaboard, Brooklyn-based sculptor Mark Andreas has crossed the East River to make his Manhattan debut. Andreas' Reactive Sculpture Series includes the hulking 400-pound Seed Spreader (pictured), an intimidating machine equipped with three-foot...
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Priests and Twins
(28 February 2008) - Priests and Twins are a series of haunting figurines created by the multi-disciplinary designer Kristin Victoria Barron, principal of the design studio Kreist. While visiting The Future Perfect some weeks ago, I found a small gathering of the Priests...
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Barnaby Barford: Private Lives
(21 February 2008) - On 11 March 2008, the irreverent ceramic artist Barnaby Barford will be exhibiting a new series of subversive objects at David Gill Galleries in London. The latest collection, "Private Lives," shows Barford treading into uncharted territory, repositioning figures from...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Richard Dupont
(15 February 2008) - For our 99th episode, we visit the Manhattan studio of Richard Dupont who makes arresting figurative work. His sculptures initially caught our eye when they made an appearance in our very first video at Art Basel and now Dupont's busy with his large-scale installation due to open at the Lever House next month. In this video he unmolds one of his distorted replicas of his body that he made using military scans, walking us through his process and some of the ideas that inform his work.
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Christopher Conte
(12 February 2008) - Picking up where H.R. Giger left off, Christopher Conte makes some pretty menacing bio-mechanical sculptures of robot insects and Terminator-esque skulls. It's nice to see the techno-goth flame still burning brightly....
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David Brady: Genesis
(01 February 2008) - Before relocating to Los Angeles, David Brady cut his teeth on the Colorado art scene, exhibiting at RULE Gallery, Gallery Sink, the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Known primarily as a...
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Reed Barrow: Monument to an Amaranth
(31 January 2008) - Another experiment in reinventing the screen, New York-based sculptor Reed Barrow's LED chandelier, dubbed "Monument to an Amaranth," functions as a 360 degree display, playing a 12-minute video loop of abstract imagery. The teched-out fixture is a departure from...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Michael DeLucia
(08 January 2008) - Following sculptor Michael DeLucia from his Brooklyn studio (shortly after completing studies in London) to his first gallery show, this video tells the story of a talented emerging artist's path. When we first visited Mike early last year, he...
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Philippe Starck's Walter Wayle Wall Clock
(07 January 2008) - Philippe Starck, designer of half-a-million dollar Richard Mille watches as well as the mass produced models for Fossil, created this wall clock for Alessi in 1989 and it's part of the MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) Design Collection. Two...
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David Adjaye: Monoforms
(13 December 2007) - Monumental. There really is no other word for them. The first furniture series from British architect David Adjaye awed the crowds when London's Albion Gallery debuted it at Design Miami last week. Like his acclaimed buildings these forms, hewn...
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Urs Fischer: You
(03 December 2007) - This weekend Ami and I got to check out You, Urs Fischer's installation at Gavin Brown's Enterprise. (Click images for detail.) The piece is an eight-foot deep crater measuring about 38x30 feet dug within the pristine white walls of...
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David Capra: Nativity
(03 December 2007) - Australian artist David Capra has an exhibition kicking off at Sydney's Mori Gallery this week . Titled Nativity, the show will feature "a garden of pom poms, rainbow paper towers, lakes of melted wax, caves of crinkled-up paper and...
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The Plumen Project: Hulger
(21 November 2007) - When it comes to the lightbulb we've been left with an egg shaped bulb since it's invention. More recently we are seeing the ice cream whip shape of compact fluorescents, but for the iconic symbol of an idea it...
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Didier Massard
(22 October 2007) - I really don't think I could ever get my fill of good dioramas, and here are some more great ones from French artist Didier Massard. Made without the help of digital manipulation, he conceives his complex images in his...
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Carved Lobster
(10 October 2007) - This lobster sculpture is intricately carved out of cow bone in the Philippines. Delicately crafted hinges allow nearly all of its parts to move—an accurate representation that doubles as a unique piece of art. With excruciating attention to detail,...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
(17 September 2007) - Formerly a military training ground, the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is now part of the famed Walker Art Center and the largest urban sculpture garden in the U.S. In this video, tour guide Gary White focuses on seven pieces of...
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Carsten Höller
(05 September 2007) - Carsten Höoller, creator of the magnificent slides shown at the Tate Museum earlier this year (above left, click on image for detail) and a beguiling room of 10 ft. mushrooms hanging from the ceiling (above right, click on image...
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Peter J. Evans: Feedbacker
(04 September 2007) - In North London, the Seventeen gallery presents British artist Peter J. Evan's first solo exhibition, "Feedbacker," at this Hackney arthouse showcasing his precise drawings and sculptures that are always more than the sum of their parts. Evans creates intricate...
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Gordon Chandler
(27 August 2007) - Sculpting industrial cast-offs into iconic Kimono shapes, there's a great basic tension in Gordon Chandler's work that comes from the tactile differences between his materials and subjects. The contrasts are the natural outcome of his Duchampian use of found...
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From the Archive: Okamoto Studio
(03 July 2007) - Takeo Okamoto, an established sushi chef in his native Japan discovered his calling for ice sculpture and moved to the iciest place he could think of, Alaska.; Art; Cool Hunting Video; interviews; sculpture; Takeo Okamoto, an established sushi chef...
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David Kramer
(27 June 2007) - Of his work, sculptor David Kramer says, "I have always been interested in signs and billboards. They proclaim all you need to know to navigate through this popular culture. I love the excessiveness of cultural iconography and yet I...
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Sarah Anne Johnson at Stephen Bulger Gallery
(29 May 2007) - Sarah Anne Johnson’s second extended project, The Galapagos Project, is based on ecological volunteer tourism in the Galapagos Islands. Like her first highly acclaimed project Tree Planting, she continues to explore the themes of idealism and nature. What has...
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Jason Young at Wade Wilson Art
(01 May 2007) - We first wrote about Jason Young back in 2003, and recently featured him in an episode of Cool Hunting video. His new show just opened at Wade Wilson Art in Houston and runs through 26 May 2007. It features...
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Agelio Batle: Graphite Sculptures
(19 April 2007) - Agelio Battle is an artist living in San Francisco. His sculpture tries to "find epiphany in mundane materials" such as maps, newspaper, dictionaries and pencil lead. The latter has found its way into an expanding series of accessible sculptures...
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Pierre Vanni
(12 April 2007) - Pierre Vanni does amazing things with paper. A 23 year-old graphic designer based in Toulouse, the paper sculptures pictured above were created for an exhibition held in Toulouse in December 2006 by the creative blog Many Stuff. Apart from...
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Matthias Pliessnig: Capsule
(14 March 2007) - Although strictly sculptural, those with a bit of imagination could use Capsule as one of the nicest note/cigar holders out there. Matthias Pliessnig designed Capsule to contain its own plans rolled up inside (above right inset). Made of ebonized...
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Beautiful Decay Issue R: Richard Stipl
(07 March 2007) - If you missed this year's Scope New York, Beautiful Decay worked with Scope to feature some participating artists showing at the 2007 fair in their issue "R." One that caught our eye there and that's also in the magazine...
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Bill Culbert: Light Sculpture
(26 February 2007) - Pairing the humble plastic detergent bottle with the equally humble fluorescent light tube, Kiwi artist Bill Culbert's latest show features subtle re-workings of everyday objects into luminous sculptures. Arranging groups of identical empty, label-less bottles along the horizontal axis...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Leo Villareal
(24 February 2007) - Our 65th video visits New York-based light sculptor Leo Villareal in his Chelsea studio a week before his third solo show in Manhattan inaugurates the new Gering & López gallery. Leo walks us through his latest three sculptures that...
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Graham Caldwell: Anatomies
(19 February 2007) - DC-based artist Graham Caldwell transforms glass into sculptures with claws, spikes and other unusual shapes, using the familiar material to conjure disembodied biomorphic shapes. His current solo show "Anatomies" looks at the structural elements of " ribs, teeth, anemones,...
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Furni x Rekognize x Skate for Cancer: Artist Clock Auction
(08 February 2007) - Rekognize and Furni are putting up 30 artist decorated clocks for a live online auction beginning Monday 12 February 2007 @ 8pm east coast time. Artists include Supermundane (above left), Clint Eagleson (above right) Eric Brunetti (FUCT), Rick Klotz...
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Ugo Rondinone: air gets into everything even nothing & get up girl a sun is running the world
(07 February 2007) - If you happen to be walking in Battery Park City over the next few months, you might be surprised to see two leafless white trees that look like they were plucked from the enchanted forest in the "Wizard of...
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James T. Williamson: It's Hard Work
(06 February 2007) - The latest sculpture by Brooklyn artist James T. Williamson, titled "It's Hard Work," is a spoof on the traditional plaster presidential bust. What began in 2001 as a study to better understand Bush's face, the all-to-familiar squinting visage comes...
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Christian de Vietri
(01 February 2007) - Like householders the world over, Perth sculptor Christian de Vietri has been spending time in IKEA. Loitering in the Faktum kitchen and between the Billy bookcases, slumped on the Klippan two-seater and filling his pockets with allen keys, de...
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Paola Pivi at the Kunsthalle Basel
(31 January 2007) - Alaska-based Milanese born Paola Pivi is having her first solo exhibition, "It just keeps getting better", in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Basel. Our favorite work from the exhibit is the interactive sculpture "E, 2001" (pictured), a cylindrical structure supporting...
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Ron Mueck: Brooklyn Museum
(11 January 2007) - You might have already heard, but it's worth a reminder that time is running out to see Ron Mueck's solo exhibition of eleven extraordinary works at the Brooklyn Museum through 4 February 2007. Known for his empathetic renderings, the...
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Harry Allen Pig Bank
(11 December 2006) - These 100% resin money-banks were cast from a demised piglet (we're assured it died of natural causes)! A large cork stopper under the belly should holds all the treasure in. Available in fuscia or white. The Pig Bank is...
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Aurora Robson
(21 November 2006) - Made from discarded plastic bottles, Brooklyn-based artist Aurora Robson's bulbous hanging sculptures look something like mutant sea creatures. She says her work stems from her interest in enantiodromia—the Jungian theory that the superabundance of any force inevitably produces its...
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Carlos Nite Lite
(15 November 2006) - Designed by Kathleen Walsh for Walteria Living, this charming Nite Lite is pre-cast in bisque porcelain and comes with a detachable linen 'lampshade'. Our little chihuahua stands 7.5" tall and is approximately 4" wide at the base. 7.5 w...
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Cal Lane and Elissa Levy: Purfle
(01 November 2006) - Rife with paradox, the finely-detailed metal sculptures by Cal Lane (Wheel Barrel, 2005 pictured) and Elissa Levy's military-themed felt pieces, mix delicate filigree with more substantial materials and topics. Their complimentary work is the subject of a show called...
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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Okamoto Studio
(26 October 2006) -

Takeo Okamoto, an established sushi chef in his native Japan discovered his calling for ice sculpture and moved to the iciest place he could think of, Alaska. Winner of several international awards, including a Silver Medal in the 1998 Olympics, Takeo now runs Okamoto Studio with his son Shintaro in New York City.

We were introduced to them through Jeremy Mangan, an artist whose coffee paintings we admired. When we spoke with Jeremy he mentioned that he also sculpts ice—he's in fact Okamoto's principal carver—the result of Jeremy and Shintaro having met in an art class at Hunter College.

We decided right away to make a video of the studio and, after some deliberation, we realized CH mascots Otis and Logan would make the perfect subjects for a video and a great feature at our 50th Episode party. Guests were treated to the breathtaking sculptures of the Sealyham Terriers themselves and to raw footage from the video of them being made.

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Cool Hunting Video Presents: Brian Dewan
(25 September 2006) -

In this, our 50th episode, we visit the Catskill, NY studio of artist Brian Dewan. His sculptures are pre-digital, unpredictable electronic musical instruments. Dewanatron, as he calls the genre, is a family of instruments which hazard unpredictable behaviors and self playing tendencies. They make all previous and future instruments obsolete. We also bring you to Pierogi Gallery where we first learned about Dewan.

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Sandwich Art
(15 September 2006) - After age six, few people take the art of making a sandwich much further than a smiley face here or there, but these over-the-top examples of food sculpture spotted recently on Neatorama are ridiculously imaginative. Who knew bologna could...
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Jeff Zimmerman: Soft Explosion
(11 September 2006) - Inspired by Harold Edgerton's famous "Milk-Drop Coronet" image Jeff Zimmerman's Soft Explosion collection for Steuben Glass evokes the random beauty of natural phenomena. Zimmerman's coveted sculptures employ the techniques of advanced glassmaking and the defining properties of glass itself...
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Air Conditioner cover by Leslie Fry
(05 September 2006) - With summer coming to an end the issue of storing and concealing ugly air conditioners is once again a challenge. We love the air conditioner cover by Leslie Fry which was featured in the September issue of Dwell and...
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Light Works
(25 August 2006) - Dan Flavin's pared-down constructions and more recent works by Leo Villareal and Spencer Fitch (Sunset (South Texas, 6/21/03) pictured)—to Bruce Nauman's tongue-in-cheek neon, Tim Noble and Sue Webster's interpretations of Vegas strip-style signs and Jenny Holzer's LED proclamations, light installations...
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Erwin Hauer Reissue
(14 August 2006) - A couple years ago we talked about the architectural sculptor Erwin Hauer and his amazing biomorphic, continuous surface screens (here). We're now very excited to report that three selections from his 50s era work are being reissued and one...
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François Junod
(09 August 2006) - François Junod has been making robots the old-fashioned way for over 20 years. Using precise micro-mechanics, Junod works out of his studio in Sainte-Croix pursuing his goal of making movements smoother and more human. Though he works primarily on commissions,...
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Urban Spectacles of Wood
(31 July 2006) - Scott Urban is a sculptor and designer of custom wood eyewear frames. Working with each customer, he designs a unique frame suited to their needs and desires. Customers choose from exotic woods sustainably grown and harvested in Brazil, including...
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Petah Coyne: Above and Beneath the Skin
(26 June 2006) - Massive and baroque, Petah Coyne's haunting sculptures belie their humble material origins. Using wax, hair, beads, ribbons, bows, and fake flowers, the New York-based artist's work conjures fairytale and myth. Some seem to tell more contemporary stories, like the...
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Tropolism: Implant Matrix Installation
(23 June 2006) - Today Tropolism directs our attention to the futuristic work of architects-cum-sculptors Philip Beesley and Will Elsworthy who recently debuted their Implant Matrix installation at the electronic media arts center Interaccess' show "Scale" in Toronto. Made from a complex structure...
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Found in Translation
(20 June 2006) - The innovative Japanese sneaker brand, Onitsuka Tiger teamed up with Ramp Industry to develop Found in Translation, a new website that went live earlier this month celebrating the latest designs and movements of Anglo-Japanese talent. The site's combination of...
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Judi Harvest
(06 June 2006) - New York-based artist Judi Harvest's work constantly looks to the illuminated cosmos for inspiration. Her upcoming September installation at Venice's famed Caffé Florian, Venetian Satellite, will be similar in form and aesthetic functionality to her Venice installation Luna Piena,...
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Jake Phipps Furniture
(27 April 2006) - Jake Phipps is an English furniture designer who has been making furniture since graduating design school in 1999. His studio gained a reputation as a resource for custom work, but he has recently added a few objects for the...
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Woofer
(14 April 2006) - Though I'm not sure what the sound quality is like, this Woofer is brilliant sculptural double entendre none-the-less. Created by Buro Vormkrijgers, a Dutch design studio founded by Sander Mulder and Dave Keune, the headless dog speaker system is...
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Andrew Sutherland
(05 April 2006) - Brooklyn-based artist Andrew Sutherland works as a composer of mundane materials and uneventful spaces. Using corrugated cardboard, vinyl and medium density fiberboard, he recalls iconographic minimalists Sol LeWitt and Tony Smith. Colorful, layered work in ethylene vinyl acetate like...
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Niklas Roy: Dokumat 500
(22 March 2006) - Niklas Roy is a German artist with engineering skills, a quirky sense of humor and an interest in robotics. Dokumat 500 is creation he completed last year—it's a fully automatic documentary robot. The camera is mounted on a tripod...
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Leo Villareal's LED Light Tubes
(17 March 2006) - Remember the LED tubes we saw at CES and showed you in this CH Video? Leo Villareal, our favorite light sculptor, has taken them and applied his sometimes soothing, other times frenetic animation style. The video below is of...
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Fred Eerdekens
(14 March 2006) - Belgian artist Fred Eerdekens creates sculpture that masterfully manipulates light and shadows. Short Story, pictured above (click to zoom—it's really amazing) is a work recently shown by Spencer Brownstone Gallery at the Armory Show here in New York. Copper...
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Ruth Marshall
(09 December 2005) - The highlight from Scope was undeniably Ruth Marshall and her acumen for craft-work combined with a nutty sense of humor. When the Australian born artist isn't at her day job sculpting exhibits at the Bronx Zoo, she's still committed...
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Wilfrid Wood
(09 September 2005) - Check out these one of a kind sculptures by London based Wilfrid Wood. After leaving the TV program Spitting Image, Wilfrid has been making these little (and sometimes not so little) works of art (4 to 12 inches) for...
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Spiced Lady Ring
(07 September 2005) - Can't stand other people's cooking? Ever wish you could bring your own spices out on the town with you? Take a look at Iluren's Spiced Lady Ring, designed by Chao and Eero Jewel. Although it's also made as a...
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Broken Biscuit
(26 August 2005) - Broken Biscuit is the site for artist Man Chi Loy. Based in Hong Kong, his artwork is both beautiful and chilling for the intensity and sadness it conveys. The figurine on the left is his most recent work, entitled...
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Food Critic
(06 July 2005) - Artist Nicolas Touron’s new exhibit at the Virgil de Voldère Gallery in New York City uses most unlikely objects to tell his startling fables of global affairs. Armed primarily with sugar and ceramics, he has set out to portray...
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Bennet Robot Works
(14 June 2005) - Meet Watts-- he's a 2 foot tall bucket of bolts made from old and new found parts. Watts can be found among many other robot sculptures at Bennett Robot Works. No, it's not yet another Social Networking site with...
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Driftwood Skulls
(23 May 2005) - Hiroshi Kure is a Japanese sculptor with a passion for skulls and resin composites that look like natural materials. There is a lot of skull paraphernalia out there these days, but these rings are the most exciting I've seen...
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ICFF Preview: Didi Dunphy's Embroidered Long Board
(10 May 2005) - Under the label Modern Convenience, Didi Dunphy aims to "bring the 'free time' of recess indoors and reintroducing play through sculptural elements." Last year at ICFF she did just that with the Indie Skate upholstered skateboard (left). This year...
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Eva Zeisel: The Playful Search for Beauty
(19 April 2005) - The lines, shapes and colors of Eva Zeisel's accessible work have inspired us for decades. If you're not familiar with her sensual design a good place to start is this show that opens at the Hillwood Museum in Washington,...
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Eric Doeringer: Contraband
(22 March 2005) - New York art magazine and exhibition space Animal commissioned Eric Doeringer to make a piece for their most recent issue/show. He came up with Contraband, a series of sculptures made out of items whose possession, sale, use, and/or transportation...
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Anthony Caro Exhibition
(10 February 2005) - Those of you lucky enough to be in or visiting London have the opportunity to see this inspiring exhibition at the Tate until 17 April. The esteemed British sculptor is 80 this year, and this massive retrospective spans the...
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Strandbeest
(27 January 2005) - This is gonna make you freak! Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist who about 10 years ago starting using plastic tubes to create these huge skeleton animal like structures that are powered by the wind. He puts these creatures...
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Brendan Monroe
(27 January 2005) - Brendan Monroe graduated from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena with honors. Check out his work and it's not hard to see why. I give him my stamp of approval for a ridiculously incredible body of work. From...
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Erich Ginder
(09 December 2004) - Erich Ginder makes functional sculpture of objects from nature. This coat rack is a cast resin tree with a Saarinen inspired base-- perfect for the Crunchy Modernist. Another one of his pieces, Ghost, is an all white coat rack...
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Shigeo Fukuda
(30 November 2004) - The new book, Masters of Deception, features the work of several illusionists, including the sculptor Shigeo Fukuda. Fukuda's mastery is in creating physical forms that take on a second identity when the viewing angle changes or a light is...
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Stephen Hendee
(07 September 2004) - Stephen Hendee makes sculpture and installations from polypropylene, glue, black tape, fluorescent lights and colored gels. His environments are like otherworldly landscapes conjured up during a science fiction character's REM sleep. Crazy as that may sound, they are simultaneously...
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Tongari-kun ( Mr. Pointy )
(12 August 2004) - I wish I could say "I'm so over Takashi Murakami!" Commercialization makes the world go round, but hasn't he taken it too far? Maybe. Maybe-not. The fact of the matter is that I continue to be delighted by the...
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Erwin Hauer
(28 July 2004) - In the 1950s Erwin Hauer designed and built architectural screens that perfectly complimented the furniture, interiors and structures of that era. He created simple patterns out of complex sculpture that simultaneously sooth and challenge the eye. Continuity and potential...
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Millenium Park, Chicago, IL
(11 June 2004) -   Next month is the grand opening of Chicago's Millennium Park. The centerpiece is the Frank Gehry-designed Jay Pritzker Pavilion, the most sophisticated outdoor concert venue of its kind in the United States. The last few Gehry buildings seem...
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Ryota Kuwakubo
(15 March 2004) - Ryota Kuwakubo is a Japanese artist and designer who's work fuses tech, function and aesthetic. The pieces are simple, but provocative and take the form of spaces, sculptures and jewlery. His portfolio site is pretty fantastic as well. via...
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Typoflex
(01 February 2004) - Silverhand, the creator of Typoflex dubs his sculptures intense visual mechanical typographic objects. They are what graffiti might look like if it was turned in to sculpture. I've only seen pictures of the work, but it looks pretty fresh....
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Spiral Jetty
(15 January 2004) - There was a great story in the NY Times earlier this week on Robert Smithson's 34 year old sculpture at the bottom of the Great Salt Lake. Spiral Jetty has eroded over time from exposure to the elements. The...
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