I used to live in Boston as a child and every year, my dad would take us outside after the first snow storm and he would make these giant
snow sculptures of Snoopy on his doghouse.
With a tip of his hat to Eric Miller, who brought the story to his attention, Volokh Conspiracy blogfather Eugene Volokh takes on the story of two Laramie, Wyo., men who are «facing obscenity charges for allegedly building
a snow sculpture of a phallus in their front yard.»
Not exact matches
«I'd like to congratulate all
of the
snow sculpture participants, many
of the entries were exceptional in their creativity and attention to detail.
Erie County Legislator Edward A. Rath III, R - Williamsville, was honored to serve as judge
of the 2011 Williamsville Winterfest
Snow Sculpture Contest at Glen Park on Sunday, Feb. 13.
The first place winner
of the
Snow Sculpture Contest was Amber Lynn Hejza, 14, and her creation
of a polar bear.
«
Snow Miku» is the ice
sculpture version
of the virtual idol that appears at the Sapporo
Snow Festival in Hokkaido, Japan.
Discover Japan in winter, exploring its stunning temples iconic cities, the world - renowned Sapporo
Snow Festival, where imposing ice sculptures loom, and the mischievous snow monkeys that inhabit the «Land of the Rising Sun.&ra
Snow Festival, where imposing ice
sculptures loom, and the mischievous
snow monkeys that inhabit the «Land of the Rising Sun.&ra
snow monkeys that inhabit the «Land
of the Rising Sun.»
The ice bar and guest rooms are decorated with hand - carved ice
sculptures and packed
snow art crafted by local artists; though the hotel and its art might melt in the spring, the memory
of your trip will be one that lasts for a lifetime.
In the coldest province in China, the International Ice and
Snow Sculpture Festival is celebrated each year with elaborate ice
sculptures (think: three - story castles and life - sized replicas
of the Great Sphinx) illuminated by fluorescent, multi-colored lights.
Officially the Harbin International Ice &
Snow Sculpture Festival, this month - long celebration
of all that is cold and wonderful is the largest gathering
of its kind in the entire world.
Officially the Harbin International Ice &
Snow Sculpture Festival, this month - long celebration
of all that is cold and wonderful is the largest gathering
of its ki... Read More
Explore the celebrated
snow and ice
sculptures created for this amazing event (held yearly since 1950), visit a light festival in the coastal town
of Ota... Read More
Explore the celebrated
snow and ice
sculptures created for this amazing event (held yearly since 1950), visit a light festival in the coastal town
of Otaru, hike to see the geysers in Jigokudani, and opt to enjoy hot springs with a stay in Noboribetsu.
Located at Odori Park, with a great view
of Sapporo TV Tower and Mt Okurayama Ski Jump Stadium at both ends, the
Snow Festival is an exhibition of snow and ice sculptu
Snow Festival is an exhibition
of snow and ice sculptu
snow and ice
sculptures.
Sand dunes and hills • Shoot interesting rock
sculptures • Trees in a field •
Snow - capped mountains • Creeks or brooks • Covered bridges • Freeway rush - hour traffic • Fields
of flowers • A unique - looking plant, such as a desert cactus • Look for long, winding roads.
Whilst here you can admire the dramatic sight
of the surrounding
snow - covered mountain peaks, and take in the superb carvings and ice
sculptures inside the glacier.
Located in Da Nang, New Blue
Snow Hotel is convenient to Museum
of Cham
Sculpture and Chi Lang Stadium.
Perhaps the most impressive piece
of marketing however, at least in scale, is the massive
snow sculpture that is currently being built.
In 1997 he made a
snow work as part
of MIAD's «Different Site Installations,» curated by Mark Lawson and Jill Sebastian (last year, when there was still such a thing as
snow and the pond at the Lynden
Sculpture Garden could be relied upon to freeze, he made another).
Working in multi-media, New York - based artist Erin Shirreff's work encourages the viewer to see objects in new ways: unsettling spacial and sensory experience by creating sculptural works specifically for the camera that confuse perception; layering still photographs in video to present a new experience
of the Moon or James Turrell's great unfinished Roden Crater work (2009); exploring myriad interferences
of glare and shadow at play on a computer screen; and presenting only one façade
of a familiar Tony Smith work in an outdoor commission,
Sculpture for
Snow.
2016 Pure Fiction, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris Suspended Animation, Hirschhorn Museum and
sculpture garden, Washington, DC Fire Under
Snow, Louisiana Museum
of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Michael
Snow: De La (installation view), 1971; aluminum and steel mechanical
sculpture with electronic controls, television camera, and four monitors; 6» x 12»; lent by the National Gallery
of Canada, Ottawa.
In celebration
of his winning
of the Gershon Iskowitz Prize in 2011, Michael
Snow's work was featured in an exhibition at the Art Gallery
of Ontario titled Objects
of Vision, comprising abstract
sculptures from the 1950s, the late 1960s and 1982.
The most original was Michael
Snow, who began his career as a painter but soon moved into a wide range
of media —
sculpture, photography and film.
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.
2004 Weapons
of Mass Dissemination: The Propaganda
of War, Wolfsonian - FIU, Miami Beach, FL Contemporary American
Sculpture: Collection
of the FIA, Marshall M. Fredericks
Sculpture Museum, Saginaw State University, University Center, MI Peter Clark:
Snow Falling on
Snow, Collaborative Concepts, Beacon, NY From Abstraction to Minimalism, Bradbury Gallery, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AK Celebrating the Jewish Contribution to 20th Century American Art, Rhode Island School
of Design, Providence, RI
Diverse artistic practices, concerns, and themes are presented ranging from the minimalist
sculpture of Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, abstract painting and drawing
of Helen Frankenthaler and Gego, to films by Walter de Maria and Michael
Snow, and politically charged works
of the Art Workers Coalition and Martha Rosler.
Top
of list
of beautiful carvings is Paul McCarthy's White
Snow, Bambi (Working Title), a ten - foot high walnut
sculpture from 2013 that greets attendees entering ABMB.
Through September 17, the latter is showing Paul McCarthy's «WS Spinoffs, Wood Statues, Brown Rothkos,» a continuation
of the artist's ongoing dialogue with large - scale
sculpture and fascination with
Snow White.
McCarthy's wooden
sculptures based on the story
of Snow White are given psychological depth through distortion
of figures and monumentality.
Glacial Specimens (flame worked glass with clay and acrylic paint) consists
of several small mixed media glass
sculptures which capture the ephemeral nature
of snow and ice crystals.
The artist uses almost invisible gestures in his
sculptures that are made
of elements such as water, soil or
snow.
We all sat on Katherine Bernhardt's series
of imported «Moroccan Magic Carpets» below Agathe
Snow's dangling
sculpture Coucou, a «found tree - trunk gutted by natural elements» injected with stress - relieving soft
sculptures built
of memory foam that she had squeezed, twisted, and punched while building to allay anxieties.
Among the
sculptures on view will be a ten - foot, shiny black mirror lying in what appears to be a bed
of snow.
Michael
Snow creates puns, paradoxes and unexpected perspectival shifts in a wide range
of mediums including film, photography,
sculpture and painting.
This exhibition, which includes paintings, photographs, video and
sculpture, examines diverse approaches to portraiture through the work
of over twenty contemporary Canadian and international artists including: Stephen Andrews, Shuvinai Ashoona, Barbara Astman, Greg Curnoe, Colin Muir Dorward, Wyn Geleynse, Sky Glabush, Kirtley Jarvis, Jim Kost, Richard Hamilton, Jason McLean, Shelley Niro, Dennis Oppenheim, Gillian Saward, Becky Singleton, Gerard Pas, Jamie Q, Angie Quick, Michael
Snow, Jeff Thomas, Joanne Todd and Joyce Wieland.
Snow's most recent projects include Portal 1: A Rippling Space, an interactive sound and video installation presented at the 2015 New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference; Wash: Awake, a generative installation for computer sound and projection mapping on a 40 «x20» hanging
sculpture by artist Jamey Grimes; Arcanum: Memories Cryptic — a series
of works for piano solo commissioned by Katalin Lukács; and Singing Sweetly from a Spider's Web — an interactive sound installation in which participants» voices are transformed and re-presented as harmonic content in a network
of sound synthesis.
An essay by curator Sarah Suzuki uses an extended investigation
of «
Snow» (1964 — 1969), a complex book -
sculpture, as a touchstone from which to further investigate Roth's use
of language, iconography, technical innovations and relationships to other artists.
Last month, Schremko traveled to Harbin, China, to serve as a judge at the International Ice and
Snow Sculpture Festival, where several previous years as a competitor gave her a true appreciation for the challenges
of this most ephemeral medium.
Caribbean Pirates CP, marks the latest iteration
of the White
Snow series, while the Caribbean Pirates series features a monumental assemblage installation and new resin block
sculptures.
In 2017, when the White House requested the loan
of a Vincent Van Gogh painting, from the Guggenheim collection, Landscape With
Snow, Spector suggested instead, America a
sculpture of a gold toilet by Maurizio Cattelan.
Key works include Andrew Erdos's Texture
of a Ghost (2011), a 6 x 8 foot room featuring hand - blown glass
sculptures and a video installation; Josiah McElheny's Landscape Model for Total Reflective Abstraction (I)(2004); Luke Jerram's E. coli (2010), which explores the tension between scientific objectivity and cultural perceptions
of viruses, diseases, and bacteria; twelve
snow globes by Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz from the Travelers series; three stained glass light boxes by Judith Schaechter; and a recent body
of work by Czech Republic - based artist Karen LaMonte that highlights the role
of the kimono in Japanese culture.
In this enclosed cosmos, Henrot presents what seems to be her very own universe, including found images, objects such as books, educational CDs, digital tablets, coloured feathers and a
snow globe, some
of her ink drawings and
sculptures, as well as a polymorphous set
of undulating aluminium shelves that run across the walls.
1987 Message Units, 516-277-4338, New York, US About
Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Brookville, New York, US Saga 87 (premiere foire), Eric Linard Editions, Grand Palais, Paris, FR Ohne Die Rose... Grusse an Beuys von 199 Kunstlern, Stadtisches Museum Haus, Monchengladbach, and Koekkoek, Kleve, DE XXX Anniversary Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, DE Group Exhibition, Rudiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, DE Hyperspaces, Art City, New York, US Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, US
Snow, Weiner, Nannucci, Art Metropole, Toronto, CA; Alberta College Art Gallery, Calgary, CA; MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, CA; Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Halifax, CA; Forrest City Gallery, London, Ontario, CA; Emily Carr College
of Art, Vancouver, B.C., CA Marc Hostettler und die Editions Media, Graphik - Sammlung ETH, Zurich, CH Stichting Fort Asperen, Asperen, NL Group Exhibition, Galerie Francoise Lambert, Milan, IT Group Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT Jack Goldstein, John Lamka, Lawrence Weiner, Piezo Electric, New York, US Folkwang Video, Videogalerie Gerry Schum, Essen, DE Incrocio - Un Racconto, La Saleriana, Erice, Sicily, IT Aspects
of Conceptualism in American Work, Part II, Avenue B Gallery, New York, US Leo Castelli y Sus Artistas, XXX Anos de..., Centre Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, MX Leo Castelli: A Tribute Exhibition, Butler Institute
of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, US Comic Iconoclasm, ICA, London, UK; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, IR; CornerHouse Gallery, Manchester, UK Dessins, Gallerie Catherine Issert, Paris, FR In Print - Artists» Books, Power Gallery
of Contemporary Art, University
of Sydney, AU Director's Invitational, David Brown Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts, US Musee St. Pierre Art Contemporain Lyon, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, DE Strong Statements in Black and White, James Goodman Gallery, New York, US Hommage a Leo Castelli, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, FR Group Show, Galerie Johnen and Schottle, Cologne Art Fair, Cologne, DE Group Show, Galerij de Lege Ruimte, Brugge, BE Nachtvuur, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, BE
With 82
of Snow's works housed at the AGO, including several
of the Walking Woman Works, early drawings, sketchbooks, films, music, and
sculpture, the artist and the institution share a unique history.
Installation view
of Asta Groting
Sculpture: 1987 - 2008, showing: Foreground: «Case» (2006, epoxy resin) Background: «Jein» (1996, Styrofoam, mechanical drive, artificial
snow)
Forecast:
Snow at The Renaissance Society presented a selection
of paintings, drawings, sculptural studies, and crystal and marble snowflake
sculptures, which showcased the artist's idea
of snowflake patterns as blueprints for architectural spaces and psychological states.
Installation view
of Asta Groting
Sculpture: 1987 - 2008, showing (left - right): «Case» (2006, epoxy resin) «Roboter» («Robot»)(2006, polyester, aluminium, wood, mechanical driver and electronic controls) «Jein» (1996, Styrofoam, mechanical drive, artificial
snow)
Installation view
of Asta Groting
Sculpture: 1987 - 2008, showing: Foreground: «Roboter» («Robot»)(2006, polyester, aluminium, wood, mechanical driver and electronic controls) Background: «Jein» (1996, Styrofoam, mechanical drive, artificial
snow)
Like Looking for
Snow Leopard at the Kunsthalle Bern presented Sone's personal assessment
of landscape and displayed a new version
of his large installation It Seems Like
Snow Leopard Island (2002 - 2006), alongside related snowflake
sculptures, paintings, drawings, and video work.