Christina West’s Boldly Colored Sculptures of “Intimate Strangers”

Figurative and boldly colored, Christina West makes sculptures that combine both serious and playful subject matter. Often, she employs scale to disorient her viewer and emphasize a certain sense of isolation. West contradicts their feeling of quiet loneliness with her loud palette. She paints her sculptures in a hot pink or bold white, a reference to the classical figures that inspire her. Her work’s relationship to its physical surroundings is another aspect of West’s storytelling. The figures in her current exhibition “Intimate Strangers” at Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami range from half size to larger than life. Caught in awkward, intimate positions, they gaze into the distance as if looking for someone else, but fail to make any connection. Even those who physically touch or share the same space do not exchange contact. They are destined to remain strangers.

“Intimate Strangers” by Christina West is now on view at Mindy Solomon Gallery through July 3rd.

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Daniel Popper, Public art, sculpture

June 23, 2018

While sand art is a typical beachside art attraction, Daniel Popper crafts towering, shamanistic sculptures that appear to grow out of the earth. The artist’s sensibility calls back to both centuries-old traditions, contemporaries such as Ray Villafane, and his own, complex figurative style, comprised of thousands of pieces. The Cape Town native also specializes in puppetry, stage design, and other forms, which appear to play into his enormous public art installations. The top piece, “Ven a la Luz,” was created over a month for the Art With Me festival in Tulum, Mexico.

Christopher David White’s Ceramic Sculptures Mimic Nature, Humanity

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December 16, 2017

Christopher David White says that “human is to nature as skin is to bark – as roots are to veins.” The artist's striking ceramic sculptures attempt to reconcile humanity’s rightful relationship with the natural world, one long abandoned for consumption and convenience. The artist was last mentioned on HiFructose.com here.

Playing With Fashion: Guda Koster’s Surreal Worlds

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August 11, 2016

The surreal sculptures, installations, and photographs of Dutch artist Guda Koster subvert fashion and create entirely new worlds with its elements. Considering herself more sculptor than photographer, each of these images begin with a live experience that has been constructed, cut, sewn, posed, and then photographed with a timer, as the artist is often present in the pieces.

Gil Bruvel’s Emerging, Sculptural Faces

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January 23, 2019

In recent work, Gil Bruvel carefully arranges pieces of wood, with startling faces emerging. This is just one example of the sculptor’s work, which also spans metalworking, oil painting, and several other mediums. The artist’s larger sculptures, in particular, tend to render the human head in unexpected ways.

Christina West’s Boldly Colored Sculptures of “Intimate Strangers”

Daniel Popper’s Massive Public Art Installations

Christopher David White’s Ceramic Sculptures Mimic Nature, Humanity

Playing With Fashion: Guda Koster’s Surreal Worlds

Gil Bruvel’s Emerging, Sculptural Faces

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