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Daniel Popper’s Massive Public Art Installations

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.

Popper’s work has also turned up in other terrain. A piece for the Electric Forest Festival looms in a heavily wooded area above. And as shown below, the artist’s work has also occupied urban fairs.

See more of his work below.

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Daniel Popper, Public art, sculpture

Margarita Sampson, sculpture

March 18, 2015

Margarita Sampson turns ordinary furniture into alluring fabric sculptures made up of organic shapes and sumptuous textures. Inspired by the scenery of her native Norfolk Island, a small island near Australia, Sampson is interested in the ways that invasive plant species can take over a landscape. For her Salon series, she turned antique chairs into growth sites for forms that resemble expanding coral reefs, barnacles, and sea anemones. "The recent 'Salon' series pitches overweening growths onto a host chair, which begins to succumb or bend under the weight," writes Sampson. "Poised at a juncture, there are many scenarios that could evolve... the chair is buried in soft forms? They outgrow themselves and die out? They take over an entire room? You? That's the excitement and the tension I seek when working on a piece."

Raija Jokinen’s Intricate Textile Figures

Raija Jokinen, sculpture, textile art

January 31, 2019

Raija Jokinen reassembles aspects of the human bodies with flax. The Finnish artist interweaves creatures and notes of nature into her recreations of our interior. Jokinen considers her work to exist at the "meeting point of the techniques in painting, graphic art, hand made paper and textile."

Coarse Debuts ‘States of Matter’ Sculptures

Coarse, figurative, sculpture

April 27, 2019

Artistic duo Coarse’s recent, entrancing sculpture “States of Matter” comes in two editions of the character Noop: "Trance" and “Cosmos.” The former is a lighthearted, jaunting visit to the beach, while the later takes on a more ominous narrative as Noop moves through water. The pair's sculptures, entrancing in both details and unexpected narratives, take on a markedly seasonal tone with this release.

Ingrid Siliakus Constructs Intricate Architecture Out of Paper

architecture, Ingrid Siliakus, sculpture

March 18, 2016

Specializing in the Japanese art form of paper architecture, Amsterdam-based artist Ingrid Siliakus creates incredibly detailed architectural masterpieces from single pieces of paper. In order to achieve a final result with the complexity and beauty that she intends, Siliakus may produce anywhere from 20 to over 30 prototypes: “Paper architecture does not bare haste, it is its enemy,” she says. “One moment of loss of concentration can lead to failure of a piece.”

Daniel Popper’s Massive Public Art Installations

Margarita Sampson’s Sculptural Furniture Comes to Life with Organic Shapes

Raija Jokinen’s Intricate Textile Figures

Coarse Debuts ‘States of Matter’ Sculptures

Ingrid Siliakus Constructs Intricate Architecture Out of Paper

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