Beth Cavener Presents New Works in ‘The Other’

Artist Beth Cavener’s stoneware sculptures present creatures from the natural world in eerie, new lights. A new show at Jason Jacques Gallery in New York City collects new pieces from the artist. “The Other” presents works from the sculptor of several moods and approaches. Five “new major works” are presented in the show. Cavener was last featured on HiFructose.com here, and she was part of the Turn the Page: The First 10 Years of Hi-Fructose exhibition.

“The sculptures I create focus on human psychology, stripped of context and rationalization, and articulated through animal and human forms,” the artist says, in a statement. “On the surface, these figures are simply feral and domestic individuals suspended in a moment of tension. Beneath the surface, however, they embody the consequences of human fear, apathy, aggression, and misunderstanding.”

The show runs from Nov.15-Dec. 5 at the gallery. See more work from the show below.

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Beth Cavener, figurative, sculpture

Antony Gormley, figurative, sculptor

December 16, 2016

British sculptor Sir Antony Gormley explores the relationships between our bodies and the world around us—and even our place in the universe. Through his work, whether in traditional settings, installations, or in public artwork, the artist focuses on the human form with varying approaches. Towering figures like "Exposure" are hunched over in contemplation in the Netherlands. Or in more controlled environments, like galleries across the world, lifesize figures like those depicted in "Domain Field" are scattered across the space.

Nahoko Kojima’s Lifesized ‘Shiro’ Paper Cut Sculpture

Nahoko Kojima, paper cut, sculpture

October 26, 2018

Nahoko Kojima’s talents in paper cut sculpture produced her largest work to date in the life-sized whale “‘Shiro” at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre in Thailand. From the initial concept to its completion, the project took a year of work from the artist. Kojima was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Ren Ri Creates Fascinating Geometric Sculptures with the Help of Bees

bee, Ren Ri, sculpture

October 29, 2014

Chinese artist and beekeeper Ren Ri collaborates with the stinging, black-and-yellow insects to create sculptures catalyzed by natural processes. The artist builds geometric, plastic forms and plants the queen bee in the center before introducing the rest of the hive. The bees naturally build their habitat around the wooden sticks inside of structure, creating organic, irregular shapes that contrast with the pristine plastic prisms that encase them.

Bert Simons Creates Incredibly Realistic 3D Paper Portraits

Bert Simons, paper, sculpture

February 13, 2016

Combining his own creativity and digital techniques, Dutch artist Bert Simons makes incredibly lifelike sculptures of the people around him out of paper. His paper portraits share an uncanny resemblance, and as the technology has improved over the years, so has the quality of the Rotterdam-based artist's works. Each portrait first begins with outlining his subject in little black dots (a "dot per dot" reference method) that are then scanned into the open source cad program Bender to create a "map" of the face, to which he applies color and texture. Simons then prints a flat rendering that is like a little work of art in its own right, a mask that he painstakingly cuts and glues back together again into the pieces you see here.

Beth Cavener Presents New Works in ‘The Other’

Sculptor Antony Gormley Explores the Body, Its Relationship to the Universe

Nahoko Kojima’s Lifesized ‘Shiro’ Paper Cut Sculpture

Ren Ri Creates Fascinating Geometric Sculptures with the Help of Bees

Bert Simons Creates Incredibly Realistic 3D Paper Portraits

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