Rebecca Ackroyd’s Sculptures Toy With Space, Figurative

Using steel rebar, chicken wire, plaster, wax, acrylics, and other materials, Rebecca Ackroyd constructs pieces that play in both figurative and abstract themes. The artist’s practices moves between mixed-media painting and sculpture, the latter producing beings exploring space and gender.

“Ackroyd’s work toys with the discipline of sculpture, as processes are dissected to their bare bones in a diverse language of making that questions relationships between drawing, abstraction and figuration,” a statement says. “Larger than life sculptures of legs, crudely made from chicken wire and plaster bandage, confront the viewer with their stark rawness. With crotches at head height they exude an air of confidence, emulating catwalk stances.”

See more of the artist’s work below.

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figurative, Rebecca Ackroyd, 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."

Yuichi Ikehata’s Powerful Sculptures of Physical Fragments

Figurative Art, sculpture, yuichi ikehata

March 6, 2016

Japanese sculptor and photographer Yuichi Ikehata creates chilling scenes that bridge the gap between reality and fiction. In his surreal ongoing series “Fragment of Long Term Memory," his intention is to comment on the fragmentary nature of memory and render it physical. "Many parts of our memories… are often forgotten, or difficult to recall. I retrieve those fragmented moments and reconstruct them as surreal images. I gather these misplaced memories from certain parts of our reality, and together they create a non-linear story, resonating with each other in my photographs," he says.

The Wood Carvings of Fernando Rosas

Fernando Rosas, sculpture, wood art

October 6, 2018

Fernando Rosas conjures surreal figures out of wood and other natural materials, faces and forms packed with drama emerging. Using varying types of wood with clay and metal adds to the disconcerting nature to the works, their anguish and peril seemingly organic in nature.

Hebru Brantley’s “I Wish I Knew How It Felt to Be Free”

graffiti, Hebru Brantley, sculpture

June 8, 2016

Hebru Brantley (featured here) is well known for his pop-infused paintings and sculptures of child-like heroes inspired by Japanese anime and graffiti. Growing up in Chicago in the midst of gang culture, Brantley has expressed that "when all else failed, I could turn to art", turning his reality into a fantasy world. He is constantly looking to create imagery that evokes emotion and tells stories, particularly of youth. Having traveled all over the world to exhibit his art, he is now making his Pittsburgh debut with "I Wish I Knew How It Felt to Be Free".

Rebecca Ackroyd’s Sculptures Toy With Space, Figurative

Sculptor Jenine Shereos Recreates Leaves Using Human Hair

Yuichi Ikehata’s Powerful Sculptures of Physical Fragments

The Wood Carvings of Fernando Rosas

Hebru Brantley’s “I Wish I Knew How It Felt to Be Free”

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