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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Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, figurative, painting

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Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga, a painter based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, crafts oil and acrylic works that blend traditional iconography and technological symbology. In particular, the Illunga series “Mangbetu” comments on a native culture coerced into modernization, as the region is an exporter of material used in computer chips.

José Manuel Castro López’s Amazing Malleable Stone Sculptures

José Manuel Castro López, sculpture

February 11, 2016

A sculptor based in Coruña, Spain seems to be defying the laws of nature with his amazing malleable stone sculptures. His name is José Manuel Castro López's and his works are actually a trick of the eye. They are made out of natural materials like granite and iron oxide, from which he crafts his rock-like formations with folds, wrinkles and flaps as if they were made of clay or skin, as in his "Faces" series where smiling and grimacing human faces are carved out of the solid material. Providing some of the stones' fleshy appearance, one could say they almost appear to be alive.

Revisiting Michele Oka Doner’s Partial, Absorbing Figurative Sculptures

figurative, Michele Oka Doner, sculpture

March 7, 2017

Michele Oka Doner's long career has produced bold sculpture, works on paper, and public art that engrosses in both its appreciation of the natural world and innovation. Her figurative works, in specific, use partially formed and seemingly organic parts to inspire awe. Many named for gods and goddesses, these particular works feel at once godly and incomplete or reflections of our limitations.

Alex Sanson’s Wildly Imaginative Kinetic, Moving Sculptures

Alex Sanson, kinetic, sculpture

April 29, 2016

Melbourne, Australia based artist Alex Sanson began sculpting in the early 90s with a series of small, toy-like sculptures greatly inspired by Alexander Calder's circus, a pioneer of moving sculpture. Since then, Sanson's repertoire has developed to include both small scale and gigantic kinetic works, some interactive and activated by touch, others hand-operated. His wildly imaginative works have taken Calder's original output and brought to it a new sense of play and movement.

Rebecca Ackroyd’s Sculptures Toy With Space, Figurative

Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga’s Paintings Depict Clash of Culture, Technology

José Manuel Castro López’s Amazing Malleable Stone Sculptures

Revisiting Michele Oka Doner’s Partial, Absorbing Figurative Sculptures

Alex Sanson’s Wildly Imaginative Kinetic, Moving Sculptures

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