Contorting and twisting the contoured lines of the human face, these contemporary large bronze, steel or
wood sculptures take on a malleable and supple appearance.
Not exact matches
Two of these sculpturesare
taken from standing polychrome
wood sculptures of Saint Catherine and the Virgin with Child, housed in the Museum im.
Though leaving the main gallery open, with its elevated skylit ceiling, provides just enough space to
take in KAWS» ginormous
wood sculptures.
For his 2016 solo exhibition Inner Conflict in Bremen, the artist produced this large
wood sculpture which
takes the test picture into the three - dimensional room.
Born in Albany, California, in 1935, De Maria moved to New York City in 1960, where he became entrenched in the burgeoning downtown art scene,
taking part in Alan Kaprow's «Happenings» and showing Dada - inspired
wood sculptures at Paula Cooper's space on the Upper East Side (then called Paula Johnson Gallery).
Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson
took scraps of
wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted
sculpture that she would paint a solid colour — most famously, black or white.
Golser's
sculptures also never lose sight of their raw material but as he
takes the
wood back to a seemingly impossibly subtle form, he manages to straddle both worlds of the other artists.
Fascinated by the meaning and rhythm of words, he writes them on
wood with gesso or carves them directly during his performances: the letters
take on a physical presence and spatial dimension, giving his
sculpture an added dimension of thought and emotion.
The artists perceives his practice as a rebirth,
taking discarded pieces of
wood which have terminated their natural existence, and transporting them to his studio where they undergo a new beginning, returning to life as integral elements of his
sculptures.
The selection of
sculptures chosen for the project represent a diverse list of names in terms of techniques, styles and artists» backgrounds: from an oversized «liquid» bronze tower by the Englishman Tony Cragg, which
took four month of negotiations with the adjacent building to install, to Manolo Valdez's stately Spanish queen gazing at the sleek new Northwestern Mutual building across the street (one of the project's sponsors), to a bronze horse cast from twigs found in Montana
woods by Deborah Butterfield.
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) is a larger, wood version of Hepworth's first sculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war, Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Aug
Sculpture with Colour (Oval Form) is a larger,
wood version of Hepworth's first
sculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war, Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Aug
sculpture with strings, the coloured plaster maquette made just before the outbreak of the war,
Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Aug
Sculpture with Colour, White, Blue with Red Strings (BH 113A), which was the only
sculpture she took with her to St Ives on 25 Aug
sculpture she
took with her to St Ives on 25 August 1939.
Inspired by Cubism, Nevelson
took scraps of
wood and other materials found on the street near her studio and assembled them into free - standing and wall - mounted
sculpture that she would paint a solid color — most famously, black or white.
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, CT where Stockholder worked with Gary Lichtenstein to screenprint on
wood taken from a 125 - year old ailing oak tree from the museum's
sculpture garden.
Kota Ezawa's diverse projects
take the form of digital animations, slide projections, lightboxes, paper cut - outs, intaglio etchings, ink drawings and
wood sculptures.