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Alex Chinneck’s Recent, Surreal Sculptures

In Alex Chinneck’s recent work, the sculptor bends and warps otherwise stubborn objects to his will. "Growing up gets me down" is a working oak grandfather clock "knotted" by Chinneck. "Birth, death and a midlife crisis" was an indoor sculpture that "tied a 450-year-old column in the German museum of Kirchheim Unter Teck." The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

In Alex Chinneck’s recent work, the sculptor bends and warps otherwise stubborn objects to his will. “Growing up gets me down” is a working oak grandfather clock “knotted” by Chinneck. “Birth, death and a midlife crisis” was an indoor sculpture that “tied a 450-year-old column in the German museum of Kirchheim Unter Teck.” The artist was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Other recent works includes the massive, 4,000-brick intervention on the Assembly London site. The piece appeared as a giant rip in the facade, and it was titled Six Pins and a Half Dozen Needles. The artist took inspiration from scanned torn sheets of paper. “Uniting the disciplines of art, architecture, theatre and engineering, the work of British sculptor Alex Chinneck is monumental in ambition and impact, producing contextually responsive interventions that animate the place in which they stand,” a statement says.

See more of his recent sculptures below.

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Alex Chinneck, interventions, sculpture

human hair, Jenine Shereos, sculpture, textile art

August 17, 2015

Boston based sculptor Jenine Shereos often uses fiber and textile processes to create her intricate artworks. Her latest series uses a more unusual material - her own hair. "Leaf Series" portrays the patterned lace-like skeletons of dead leaves with excruciating detail. Shereos discusses her inspiration and process at her website: "Inspired by the delicate and detailed venation of a leaf, I began stitching individual strands of hair by hand into a water- soluble backing material. At each point where one strand of hair intersected another, I stitched a tiny knot, so that when the backing was dissolved, the entire piece was able to hold its form. Creating this work was a very meditative process for me, as I found myself lost in the detail of the small, organic microcosms that began taking shape."

Sculptor Willy Verginer Expresses Environmental Concerns in New Works

Environmentalism, Figurative Art, sculpture, Willy Verginer

June 27, 2015

Currently living and working in the idyllic town of Urtijëi, Italy, sculptor Willy Verginer shares a closeness with his environment in both technique and concept. His surreal wooden sculptures are carved from a single linden tree trunk with incredible precision and detail. Although their features are classical, Verginer paints bold stripes of color across his figures and poses them in awkward positions, making them completely contemporary. Previously covered here, he's often paired his figures of women, men, and young children with other animals and objects that don't fit together. His most recent pieces, which are on currently view at Galerie Van Campen & Rochtus in Belgium, pairs them with oil barrels.

Myriam Mechita’s Surreal Sculptures Entrance with Intense Visuals

Myriam Mechita, sculpture

December 9, 2014

Interdisciplinary artist Myriam Mechita creates sculptures, installations, and drawings where graphically violent content is presented as ornamental, sparkling eye candy, resulting in climactic visuals that stir the senses. Mechita's sculpture work mixes ceramics and found objects and often features beheaded animals — especially deer — hanging upside down in methodical arrangements. Plastic beads — like those that hang from beaded curtains or Mardi Gras necklaces — appear to spill out of their necks. The animals' bodies become almost like ritualistic sacrifices in Mechita's work, which carefully balances darkly surrealist juxtapositions, occult imagery, and decorative kitsch.

Dustin Farnsworth Adorns Figures with Architectural Headdresses

architecture, Dustin Farnsworth, sculpture

March 17, 2016

Making art wasn't the only creative outlet for Penland based sculptor Dustin Farnsworth growing up. His high school drama program helped instill in him an affinity for the theatrical: his sculptures feature mixed media figures and life sized heads adorned with headdresses that resemble theaters and architectural spaces. Also the son of a carpenter, his father, who built marionettes and a medical illustrator, his mother, it would seem that his work is the perfect combination of his upbringing.

Alex Chinneck’s Recent, Surreal Sculptures

Sculptor Jenine Shereos Recreates Leaves Using Human Hair

Sculptor Willy Verginer Expresses Environmental Concerns in New Works

Myriam Mechita’s Surreal Sculptures Entrance with Intense Visuals

Dustin Farnsworth Adorns Figures with Architectural Headdresses

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