Then came the well - known work of the early 1960s, but after that he again broke the balance
between plaster cast and object.
Not exact matches
Lewin's dual passions of medicine and fossils make for dizzying conversation as he switches, rapid fire,
between how to fill a dinosaur footprint with
plaster and how to use that same
plaster to fashion an emergency
cast.
Here and there, you can still see the traces of the chisel he uses to scrape away the excess bits of
plaster or some shreds of jute slipping
between the clotty
casts of
plaster.
Thanks to support from the Art Fund, three of the works are now making their UK debut at Sir John Soane's Museum, as part of the exhibition Power in Woman, which draws parallels
between Sir John Soane's classical
plaster casts and Lucas's sculptures.
Assembling all manner of materials and objects —
plaster casts, videos, newspaper clippings, photographs, flowers, even water — into large - scale, site - specific installations, the artist blurs the distinction
between institutional and intimate space.
Whiteread works with
plaster casts, visualizing the empty spaces
between and beneath familiar objects, while Hatoum's objects often deviate from the norm in a disquieting way.
Eva Masterman's profile >> > Jackson Sprague Sprague's work plays - up tensions
between aesthetic and functional, sculptural and pictorial, lasting and ephemeral: a room divider performs as a painting, a painting on the wall is also a
plaster cast sculpture, painted cardboard appears to be ceramic.
Sprague's work plays - up tensions
between aesthetic and functional, sculptural and pictorial, lasting and ephemeral: a room divider performs as a painting, a painting on the wall is also a
plaster cast sculpture, painted cardboard appears to be ceramic.
Situated at this intersection
between of minimalism and conceptualism, the artist Rachel Whiteread is best known for her use of industrial materials such as
plaster, rubber, and resin in the
casting process.
Like a lot of Cross» work, it is a fusion
between the surreal and the functional, in this case a cow's udder stitched together with silk from her grandmother's wedding dress and draped over a
plaster cast, teats perched atop to form a headdress, a halo or a set of horns.