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November 14, 2018
Andy Smith

The Recyclable-Filled Renaissance Portraits of Suzanne Jongmans

Recycling packaging materials and other discardables, photographer Suzanne Jongmans crafts Renaissance-style portraits that examine contemporary consumption. The artist finds value in these otherwise overlooked materials; elsewhere, she piles clothes and finds beauty in unfinished garments.

A statement shows how these choices contrast with the accessories of centuries-old paintings: “Today’s symbols contrast with the allegoric objects seen in paintings of the Golden century. Pairing past with present. In Room for Change, the alluring whorl of plastic and polystyrene surrounding the head of the woman sees through the veil in a piece inspired by Rogier van der Weyden and where a butterfly on the model’s hand refers to ‘transformation.’”

See more of her portraits below.

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Photography, sculpture, Suzanne Jongmans

Graham Caldwell, sculpture

January 12, 2015

Graham Caldwell's glass-blown, welded sculptures gleam like insect eyes, refracting the viewer's reflection into myriad distorted parts. The Washington D.C.-based artist works with hypnotizingly shiny surfaces, which he arranges into shapes that resemble various natural processes. In one piece, teardrop-shaped glass vessels explode from a central point like a flower blossom. In others, irregular, prismatic arrangements of multi-colored glass coalesce into crystal-like shapes. While Caldwell's work at times evokes the natural world, his final products are sleek and oftentimes look manufactured despite his hand-done processes.

Video Highlights James Lake’s Cardboard Art Practice

cardboard, James Lake, sculpture

November 8, 2017

British artist James Lake first began to use cardboard in his work after losing his leg to bone cancer 20 years ago, finding strength and versatility in this unlikely, yet readily available material. In a new video from Rajapack, Lake recalls his story and shows a bit of his process. Lake used Earth Overshoot Day as inspiration for a sculpture that "shows the size the earth would need to be to support the speed we are consuming the Earth’s resources. At the centre of the sculpture sits the Earth, and encasing half of it is a shell 1.7 times larger."

Noah Scalin’s Portraits Made from Piles of Clothes

Noah Scalin, portraits, sculpture

April 27, 2017

From certain angles, works by Noah Scalin can just look like piles and piles of clothes strewn along the floor. But at the right angle, absorbing portraits come into focus. Recent subjects include Hellen Keller, Maggie L. Walker, and others. The length of these sculptures can comprise around 30 feet. His work explores “the theme of transience – specifically the temporary nature of our individual lives and tenuous nature of human existence on the planet.”

Linda Cordell’s Unsettling, Humorous Ceramic Sculptures

ceramics, Linda Cordell, sculpture

July 29, 2017

Linda Cordell’s ceramic sculptures offer familiar creatures and figures, yet many carry a darker edge. Much of Cordell’s work depicts the animal kingdom, in varying states of tension or external conflict. Most sculptures carry the natural color of porcelain, with pops of bright hues that mark points of interest (or impact, depending on the piece).

The Recyclable-Filled Renaissance Portraits of Suzanne Jongmans

Graham Caldwell’s Prismatic Blown Glass Sculptures

Video Highlights James Lake’s Cardboard Art Practice

Noah Scalin’s Portraits Made from Piles of Clothes

Linda Cordell’s Unsettling, Humorous Ceramic Sculptures

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