This cozy, cluttered brasserie is filled with aesthetically mismatched pieces — soccer and army figurines battling it out, alongside life -
size animal sculptures — but don't let its eclectic look fool you.
Not exact matches
Those drawings became the basis for an anatomically accurate, life -
sized sculpture of the
animal made of clay, Styrofoam, and wire mesh.
Stephanie Quayle has long been fascinated with the
animal form, and creates expressive life -
size sculptures fired in clay that capture the movement and character of the creature, from imposing elephants to mischievous monkeys.
Kelley's work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces to arrangements of stuffed -
animal sculptures, to wall -
size drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth.
Mike Kelley's work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces to arrangements of stuffed -
animal sculptures, to wall -
size drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations.
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.
Trees in Contemporary Art Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg
Animal Mineral Vegetable Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York Allegory of the Cave Painting Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp Alchemy NEST, The Hague
Size Matters Foundation for Art Fort at Vijfhuizen, Vijfhuizen Picture This SALTS, Birsfelden Halftone: Through the Grid Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin Beating around the bush Episode # 1 Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht Objects in mirror are closer than they appear Lugar a Dudas, Cali RE: Painted S.M.A.K., Ghent video screening 25 Zero, Milan Amnesia Nadácia - Centrum súčasného umenia, Bratislava 2013 Behind Images Garage Rotterdam, Rotterdam (catalogue) Traces Stedelijk Museum, s - Hertogenbosch Agora 4th Athens Biennale, Athens On the Road to... Tarascon, Adrian Ghenie and Navid Nuur Plan B, Berlin Passion de l'Art en Finistère / Collection # 4 Centre d'art contemporain de Quimper (T) HERE Bonnefanten Hedge House, Wijlre Flex - Sil Reloaded Kunst Halle St. Gallen, St. Gallen Casey Kaplan, New York The Image in the
Sculpture Centre Pompidou, Paris (curated by Christine Macel and Navid Nuur) Time, Trade and Travel Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam Small Gestures MU / Strijp S, Eindhoven Mesures et disparition / Over maat en verdwijning Institut Néerlandais, Paris It wasn't there yesterday Raster Gallery, Warsaw 2012 This Title is an Artwork of Mine Motto Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (curated by Mikkel Carl) The Castle in the Air.
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.
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.
Anna Hyatt Huntington (1876 - 1973) One of the masters of naturalistic
animal sculpture, her statues - both life -
sized and in smaller proportions - are in museums and art collections across the United States.