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

furniture, installation, Michael Beitz, sculpture

April 14, 2015

What do you get when you cross a roller coaster with a picnic table? Probably something that resembles Michael Beitz's imaginative takes on the furniture we encounter on a daily basis. Beitz turns mundane objects into innovative sculptural forms that are at once artistic and functional. He flips the script on how to build desks, tables, benches, and couches -- twisting their shapes, turning them into curly cues, or making them bend, stretch, and melt in unexpected ways. His work always has a sense of humor and inspires viewers to become curious about their everyday surroundings.

Ryan Hewett’s Provocative Figures Return at Unit London

figurative, painting, Ryan Hewett

June 20, 2019

Ryan Hewett’s experimental formations of the human figure, shaped with knives, brushes and paint rollers, return in a new show at the Unit London this month. Among the fresh works offered in “New Paintings” is the massive “Memories,” measuring more than 11 feet by 6 feet. The work took more than a year for the South African painter to finish. Hewett was last on our site here.

The ‘Mechanical Mutants’ of Sculptor Shovel Head

sculpture, Shovel Head, Yasuhito Udagawa

December 17, 2018

The sculptures of Yasuhito Udagawa, also known as Shovel Head, imagine a world in which animal adaptations are mechanical in nature. The artist has been crafting works in this vein for the past couple decades, his own evolution occuring that time in the elaborate and new creatures he concocts.

Henrik Uldalen Debuts Ethereal, Loosely-Painted Works in “Rapture”

figurative, Henrik Aa. Uldalen, Henrik Uldalen

May 13, 2016

Henrik Uldalen is a London based artist well known for his emotionally-charged oil paintings of figures, often appearing weightless and diminishing into the background."My work is based on abstract ideas of existentialism and nihilism, and on loneliness and numbness," he says. "They’re fairly loose ideas, as they’re a direct translation of my changing emotional states." We first featured Uldalen on the cover of Hi-Fructose Vol. 24, and here on our blog, where we've seen the artist progress from a more realistic, yet ethereal style to experimenting with abstraction.

Rebecca Ackroyd’s Sculptures Toy With Space, Figurative

Michael Beitz’s Topsy-Turvy Furniture Design

Ryan Hewett’s Provocative Figures Return at Unit London

The ‘Mechanical Mutants’ of Sculptor Shovel Head

Henrik Uldalen Debuts Ethereal, Loosely-Painted Works in “Rapture”

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