Tony Oursler has become known for the way in which he combines video with an array of physical objects encompassing such things as dolls, furniture and organic
fibreglass forms.
Initially he worked as a sculptor, making
fibreglass forms.
Not exact matches
Minimal sculpture is composed of extremely simple, monumental geometric
forms made of
fibreglass, plastic, sheet metal, or aluminum, either left raw or solidly painted with bright industrial colours.
Intestinal
forms in baby pinks and blues wriggle and quiver like serpents hypnotised by a snake charmer — though arguably the
fibreglass supports detract from the effect.
Hesse, possessed of material ingenuity and an apparent naughty streak, took that ethos and pushed its outer limits, making works from latex, rubber,
fibreglass and wire mesh, coagulating her materials not into pure
form, as the Minimalists intended, but suggestively sensual abstract shapes.
Lee's works are a hybrid of painting, sculpture and installation, in which she juxtaposes the simplicity of a repeated
form with a richness of materials, such as wax, bronze, glass and
fibreglass.
The mood swing, however, could be attributed to a growing international interest in the elegant
forms emerging in the new and popular kinetic art and the effect of technologies developed during World War II that had been taken up by designers such Charles and Ray Eames, who had experimented with
fibreglass, plastic resin and wire, to produce new types of furniture and home accessories that were stronger, but lighter in feel than anything that had existed before.
This six metre tall sculpture appears to be an ephemeral billowing
form, capturing a moment in time where wind passes through fabric, but is actually rendered in steel and
fibreglass.
YINKA SHONIBARE, MBE Medusa Head, 2015
Fibreglass head
form, Dutch wax printed cotton textile, metal armature, and steel head stand 13 3/4 x 19 5/8 x 19 5/8 in.
The Vertigo pendant light has a dramatic and expansive
form achieved by interweaving slender polyurethane ribbons over an airy elliptical
fibreglass frame.
Constance Guisset's dramatic and expansive Vertigo pendant light has a
form achieved by interweaving slender polyurethane ribbons over an airy eliptical
fibreglass frame.