Scott Radke‘s carved figures teem with creepiness and absorbing detail. He offers a collection of new characters in the show “Home at Last” at Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York. The show’s figures evolve Radke’s longstanding fascination with the unsettling, each new work carrying both grace and a sense of magic. He was last featured on HiFructose.com here.
Radke offers this on his new collection: “This is about three months of just letting my mind wander and throwing in little symbols of personal matters that go on in my daily life, coupled with just going about it intuitively,” he says. “It’s not often I get to do a large body of work to be grouped together.”
If you haven’t seen Radke’s work in a gallery setting in the past, you may have caught his characters making a cameo in Tim Burton’s 2010 film “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll adaption that featured wooded backdrops similar to the ones Radke’s works are often photographed inhabiting.
It appears that sculptor Joe Reginella has once again erected a memorial statue marking a fictional occurrence in New York City. This time, it’s a story that purports that former Mayor Ed Koch sent wolves into the subways of the city to ward off graffiti artists during his tenure, and according to the Ed Koch Wolf Foundation (who supposedly put up the memorial), the creatures are still the reason behind missing tourists in the Big Apple.
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Tracey Snelling's installations are immersive blends of sculpture, video, and photography, her makeshift buildings containing surprises in their windows and corners. Her recent, massive construction at the 58th Venice Biennale reflects on her experiences living in China, in particular. Videos shown within offer peeks into her experiences with friends; structures are inspired by actual places she visited.