This week's featured maker is felting queen Tina Tang, who creates miniature
felted animal sculptures.
Not exact matches
We
feel that this is the time to reach out to underrepresented types of pet
animals, and we are very excited today to offer
sculptures of unicorns to those who have one in their garden.
Erick Swenson creates
sculptures of striking verisimilitude, depicting hybrid
animals that
feel strangely familiar yet foreign.
The main room
feels overwhelming in scale, full of over-sized and crudely modeled ceramic
sculptures, towering red dripping
sculptures that look like some sort of giant
animal's tendons freshly ripped from its body, and spray - painted canvases hanging on the walls.
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.
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.
From lard and
felt installation by Joseph Beuys and the introduction of live
animals into the gallery space by Jannis Kounellis to neon light
sculptures and video installation of Bruce Nauman and Tracey Emin presenting her bed as art, this movement has taken many forms and it continues to evolve and change still.
From the Day is Done videos and
sculptures installed at the entrance to the show to the gallery containing many of his installations or
sculptures composed of stuffed
animals, afghans, and
felt banners to the life - size re-creation of the wishing well in Chinatown, the scrupulous attention to detail proves that nothing was left to chance.