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On display are small animal sculptures made of bronze on which Merrick applied a thick layer of acrylic paint.

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A traveling exhibit featuring massive, colorful sculptures of familiar ocean animals including reef fishes, sharks, octopus, penguins, sea lions and more made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from West Coast beaches.

Stella the Seahorse, a sculpture made entirely of plastic marine debris removed from Pacific Coast beaches, is part of the collection of art made entirely of trash that offers Shedd visitors a powerful, visual reality of the proliferation of plastic pollution in the world's waterways through representations of marine animals using thousands of pieces of plastic in every color of the rainbow.

To make the point, he uses Nicola Hicks's Maquette Head for Crouching Minotaur, a bust of the bull - human hybrid, and Louise Bourgeois's sculpture, Nature Study, which amalgamates human and animal body parts into a confusing, headless whole.

Those drawings became the basis for an anatomically accurate, life - sized sculpture of the animal made of clay, Styrofoam, and wire mesh.

The controversial sculpture made from human and animal materials was created to raise awareness of Arctic oil drilling

Only after making many trips to see her current subject, and only when she is finally sure that the sculpture is perfect, will she then begin to put the hairs on the animal.

Stop in at the town's visitor center to get driving maps to an astounding collection of enormous prehistoric animals — metal sculptures made by artist Ricardo Breceda — that dot the surrounding desert landscape...

Stop in at the town's visitor centre to get driving maps to an astounding collection of enormous prehistoric animals — metal sculptures made by artist Ricardo Breceda — that dot the surrounding desert landscape...

Komla Eza, who is from Togo but has been in a residency in Senegal since last year, showed sculptures made from colorful, recycled and compressed flip flops and shaped into animal - like forms to focus people on the environment.

Pieces ranging from early -»60s paintings incorporating casts of manhole covers to brand - new sculptures made of resin and horsehair variously bring to mind Sue Coe's activist art, Robert Rauschenberg's indexical work of the 1950s, Bruce Nauman's casts of animal bodies and Jack Pierson's early installations, as well as fiber art and African artifacts.

Amongst our favorite artworks being exhibited here are Marc Dennis» realistic still - life painting of luscious flowers at Dallas» Cris Worley Fine Arts, Francis Upritchard's gesturing bronze figure at London «s Kate MacGarry, Jason Middlebrook's geometric abstraction on an elm plank at New York «s Ameringer McEnery Yohe, Luis Gispert's abstraction made by embedding gold chains in a field of black stones at Palma de Mallorca's Lundgren Gallery, and Klara Kristalova's ceramic sculpture of animals in a tub at Lehmann Maupin, with galleries in New York and Hong Kong.

The selection of works ranges in date from 1997 to the present, including video and small - to large - scale sculptures (made of silicone, fiberglass, human and animal hair, taxidermied peacocks, polyester, nylon, wool, plastic and bronze).

Special demonstration workshops, distinguished speakers, stellar Los Angeles venues, and facilitated life drawing sessions will support artists interested in making representational imagery of all kinds, including human and animal figures, figure groupings, portraiture, landscape, still - life, and representational sculpture.

This is also the room where you'll find Agathe Snow's Coucou, a dangling sculpture made from a tree trunk, found bicycle parts, and stress balls made of latex and sand and manipulated to resemble animals.

Artist Ellen Jewett refers to her sculptural work as «natural history surrealist sculpture,» a blend of plants, animals, and occasionally human - made structures or objects.

The Italian artist makes sculptures in which figures and animals appear to be connected to stories and myths.

His sculptures reflect an interest in the combination of the man - made and the organic, in which human or animal forms are supported by or merged with technological attributes.

Standout pieces at SP - Arte include Vik Muniz's Op Art abstraction from his «Handmade» photographic series at São Paulo's Carbono Galeria, Haegue Yang's wooly beast sculpture at Mexico City's kurimanzutto, Saint Clair Cemin's surreal ballerina cast in copper at Porto Alegre's Bolsa de Arte, the Campana Brothers» stool made with toy stuffed animals at São Paulo's Firma Casa, Wolgang Tillmans» photographic still - life of a big peach with other fresh fruits, and Lynda Benglis» biomorphic gold - leafed sculpture at Cheim & Read.

On the occasion of the show, Carossa exhibits a new body of organic / animal - like - shape sculptures made by using expanded foam, colors and found objects, whose interaction in the limits of both the piece and space, offer viewers mixed feelings, based on a balance between opposite forces, including dirty and clean, hard and soft, bright and opaque, weight and light.

The exhibition is composed of a series of photographic portraits that document sculptures made out of animal skin and body parts, using untreated pigskin, raw meat for the lips, and fresh pigs» eyes.

Known for his enormous installations, which include videos, sculptures, sound, architecture and even animals, Huyghe — in his videos - explores the capacity of cinema to represent and distort mental projections of living things, who in his view are capable of making unconsciously artistic creations.

She uses traditional craft techniques to create sculptures made of natural materials, such as wood, bone and animal hides.

The exhibition is composed of a series of photographic portraits that document sculptures made out of animal skin and body parts, using untreated pigskin, raw meat for the lips, and fresh -LSB-...]

For her first solo show in New York, Kristalova presents surreal sculptures made in glazed porcelain, stoneware and patinated bronze that portray the awkwardness of youth, which the artist envisions as dreamlike amalgams of human form with elements taken from animals, insects and trees.

The sculptures of the American Michael E. Smith are made from objects that can be found on the street or at the dump — household items, dead animals, or organic materials.

The exhibition features new physical pixelated sculptures («PixCell» s) made out of toys, taxidermied animals, musical instruments and other everyday objects, new works in his Direction and Ether series that visualize the effects of gravity, and new works in his Villus series that cover an object's contours and textures with «villi.»

As Mark Wallinger wins the commission for his 50 - metre tall horse at Ebbsfleet International station in Kent, we ponder on the other animals that would make suitable sculptures for different areas of Britain and Ireland

Born in County Durham, now living and sculpting in Devon, Nick's sculptures of animals are made with remarkable accuracy and devotion.

There will be hyperpigmented canvases by British - Nigerian Yinka Shonibare MBE, of the Young British Artists generation; animal - skin sculptures of the female form by the Swazi artist Nandipha Mntambo; portraits by the queer South African photographer Zanele Muholi; the 2013 Venice Biennale's Angola Pavilion installation by photographer Edson Chagas (winner of that year's Golden Lion award); an ebony bust by Soweto - born Mohau Modisakeng; a huge dragon sculpture in rubber and ribbon by the Cape Town — born Nicholas Hlobo; and sheets made of 1,150 tiny glass beads by American artist Liza Lou, who has a studio in Durban, a South African city around 800 miles from Cape Town.

Recently Osterhout purchased an old synagogue for his studio, where he produces magically bizarre sculptures made from the detritus of the constantly failing Catskills and the animal trophies of his hunting.

There's Made in» Eaven (2004), a video in which a camera circles around a Koons balloon - animal sculpture in Leckey's apartment.

The exhibition is comprised of quilts, flocked aluminum prints, animal cages, ceramic sculptures, a rotary rock tumbler, and other ready - mades.

Rather, the technicolor paintings and surreal sculptures that make up the show speak to the ways animals are part of the contemporary imagination through fantasy and allegory.

Through a variety of mediums, including oil paint, watercolor, sculpture and furniture making, they bring to life the animals that inhabit the landscape surrounding them, from field to farm and forest.

Lemsalu often experiments with traditional techniques to create her multilayered works, animal body parts, delicate sculptures of clothing, or objects made of porcelain are mixed with found natural materials — fur, leather, wool — to create staged installations.

Calder conceives of treelike sculptures to be made in steel so they can withstand the abuse of the wild animals.

She began to adorn the exterior of her house, which called the «playhouse,» with stuffed animals, life - sized dolls, animal - shaped hedges and sculptures made of chewing gum.

In their spare time, the two began creating sculptures from leftover bottle caps, making humans and animals and windmills and architectural forms of various sizes, some referencing fairy tales and nursery rhymes.

Ralf Winkler, the German artist who rose to fame in the 1970s with his caterwauling, violent, humorous, rigorously flat paintings of stick figures, animals and monsters that he signed with the pseudonym A. R. Penck (the better to elude unsympathetic East German officials, at least for a while), has periodically made stuffed felt sculptures.

It's possible to imagine an exhibition one day where the «Armi» and the «Finte sculture» would be shown near the last groups of works — albeit ideally in separate rooms — illustrating what a jump it was for Pascali to make sculptures based on animal forms, or how he moved from using industrial materials to re-create contemporary weaponry into using domestic materials to conjure a world of prehistoric fantasy.

Her cryptic camel skeleton sculpture, Inside - Out (1970), made of steel, wax, marble dust, fiberglass, and animal skin, is a highlight of the show.

Worked as a fund - raiser for the New York Museum of Modern Art, before achieving major acclaim as a contemporary Neo-Pop artist, best known for his gigantic sculptures of banal and / or pop - culture objects such as toys, animals and celebrities, made from unusual, highly coloured materials.

Made of either organized plant matter or animal hair that she gathers in nature, Löhr's sculptures evoke architectural structures and geometric forms of varying complexity.

Erick Swenson has made a national name for himself with his astonishingly realistic sculptures of animals.

More theoretically inclined Feminist artists of the late 1980s and 1990s included: the conceptual artist Mary Kelly, now Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, whose work borrows from both Marxism and psychoanalysis; the contemporary German photographer Katharina Sieverding, who uses make - up and face - painting to explore gender borders; the German multimedia artist Iza Genzken, noted for her assemblages of household objects; the American postmodernist Lynda Benglis, best - known for her wax paintings and poured latex sculptures; and the English conceptual Helen Chadwick (1953 - 96), noted for her feminist performances and installations, but perhaps best - known for photocopying her body next to dead animals.

As a backdrop, a colossal painting of an asbestos - suited figure fleeing a burning Manhattan while being pursued by a human - headed snake, making its way to a garbage strewn New Jersey where a skeleton lies in wait with a gun; in front, a life - size sculpture of a map - skinned boy with flames sprouting from his body races toward a tree hung with animal skulls and a severed head.

Individual rooms hold all manner of sculptures made from used stuffed animals, grimy dolls and tatty, crocheted afghans, often the kind made at home by hobbyists and sooner or later discarded to the bins of the neighborhood thrift store.

It includes dead animals and a sculpture made from frozen blood.