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Zemer Peled Creates Floral Sculptures from Ceramic Shards

Zemer Peled's porcelain work emerges from an inherently violence process. She smashes her handmade ceramics to pieces and uses the shards as new sculpting material. Peled constructs organic shapes out of the jagged fragments, evoking floral arrangements and at times, biomorphic, abstract masses. But despite her freeform, intuitive process, the Israeli artist creates her final sculptures with great attention to organization and detail. The shards appear nearly uniform and are carefully juxtaposed next to one another to create rhythmic shapes that emulate nature.

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Zemer Peled’s porcelain work emerges from an inherently violence process. She smashes her handmade ceramics to pieces and uses the shards as new sculpting material. Peled constructs organic shapes out of the jagged fragments, evoking floral arrangements and at times, biomorphic, abstract masses. But despite her freeform, intuitive process, the Israeli artist creates her final sculptures with great attention to organization and detail. The shards appear nearly uniform and are carefully juxtaposed next to one another to create rhythmic shapes that emulate nature.

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ceramics, porcelain, sculpture, Zemer Peled

painting, Reen Barrera, sculpture

November 23, 2018

With his signature “Ohlala” character, Reen Barrera creates both mixed-media paintings and windable toys. The figure moves between cutesy and menacing iterations, appearing both hardened and crudely decorated. In the moving wooden sculptures, the deceptively simple actions show ingenuity from the artist.

John Grade’s Monumental Installations Take Cues from Nature

installation, John Grade, sculpture

September 4, 2014

John Grade is a Seattle-based artist who creates monumental installations that significantly alter the viewers' experience of architecture and nature. Gritty, industrial materials are Grade's trademark. He likes his work to have weight in an almost precarious sort of way, as if the piece might give and crush the viewer at any second. Inspired by the land art movement of the '60s and '70s, Grade's work echoes the scale and impact of famous Earthworks like Spiral Jetty, though most of his interventions take place inside of museum and gallery environments rather than the land itself.

Hitomi Hosono’s Foliage-Inspired Ceramic Vessels

ceramics, Hitomi Hosono, pottery

February 16, 2018

Ceramicist Hitomi Hosono creates vessels born from several, leaf- and flower-like forms. These porcelain pieces carry the rich textures and shapes of their inspiration, even in their interiors. The artist cites both the traditions of Europe and Japan in her approach. Based in the U.K., the artist studied in Japan and Denmark before moving her practice.

Mythologies Collide in Peter Palfi’s ‘Looney Tombs’ Series

Peter Palfi, Pop Surrealism, sculpture

April 17, 2019

In Peter Palfi's "Looney Tombs" series, the mythologies of Ancient Egyptian gods and 20th-century animation synthesize with artifacts faithful to both histories. The Hungarian artist uses bronze, wood, resin, actual mummified animals, and other materials to craft these sculptures—along with his own complete Book of the Dead. For some, it may recall Damien Hirst's "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," though Palfi's work, in concept, wholly embraces the absurd.

Zemer Peled Creates Floral Sculptures from Ceramic Shards

Reen Barrera’s ‘Ohlala’ Character Lives in Paintings, Sculpture

John Grade’s Monumental Installations Take Cues from Nature

Hitomi Hosono’s Foliage-Inspired Ceramic Vessels

Mythologies Collide in Peter Palfi’s ‘Looney Tombs’ Series

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