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"These plants are growing without any cultivation. They don't need fertilizer or pesticides. So why not tap into that abundance?" - Patterson Clark ...
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Terry Brown's work stands as a testament to one man's worldy yet earthy, utterly idiosyncratic vision. ...
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Human beings have used bricks for thousands of years. In 4000 BC, the ancient city of Ur (part of Mesopotamia, in what is now Iraq) was built almost entirely of brick. In the 1960s, on the other end of the utility spectrum, Carl Andre made minimalist brick-art installations. Michael Morgan's sculptural works are ingenious integrations that call on this history - brick as building material, brick as art. All of Morgan's creations - whether singular columnar forms like Tide Clock (1999) or the seven shoreline sculptures that make up Haverstraw Trophy (2005) - walk the line between man-made and ...
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"I'm interested in relationships," says Ann Weber. "Why they work, why they don't work. All the emotions that come and go throughout life. Balancing acts - art, life, family. How far can you go before it all collapses?"
Weber explores these big ideas in her often enormous sculptures, biomorphic forms that have towered as high as 16 feet. In her show "Love and Other Audacities" at Los Angeles' Craft and Folk Art Museum (through September 11), she captures the complex dynamics of a marriage ceremony in The Wedding Party (2009), a tableau of familiar figures dominated by a 7-foot Bridezilla and ...
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Super-sized hives, shells, and seed pods are among the natural objects that come to mind when you view Heechan Kim's seemingly seamless wood sculptures from a distance.
Come closer and you might think of baskets and boats, because Kim's organic forms are painstakingly constructed out of dozens of thin strips of pale ash, white oak, or maple, stitched together with hundreds of separate strands of copper or stainless steel wire.
Peer inside his #8 (2010), which won raves last fall at the ArtPrize competition at Michigan's Grand Rapids Art Museum, and savor the tension between the soft, flesh-like ash and the sharp ...
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“The design is inspired by a culture of making, a commitment to craft that is the essence of the curatorial spirit of the museum.”–Brad Cloepfil ...
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“My work is not about keeping secrets,” says Max Lamb, who delivers his furniture using one or two tools and makes videos of his methods. ...
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Jim Zivic prizes the mundane material of his functional sculpture for its very non-preciousness. ...
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In Anne Lemanski's hands, fascinating materials become spectacular creatures. ...
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Gregg Graff and Jacqueline Pouyat have found a way to preserve their nature-based art with an equally natural material. ...
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While Kyoko Okubo works in a medium that represents Japanese traditions, her sculptures provide a visual landscape entirely her own—a place of animals, gentle young girls and nuanced relationships. ...
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Hongtao Zhou regarded the cold winter, snow, water and lake surface as his energy source, raw material and factory. ...
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