Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan Craft Cities from Cardboard

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan tackle displacement, community development, and memory in their cities and structures made of cardboard. Their work ranges from these sculptures and installations to drawing, paintings, and works on paper. Their current, major installation at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, "Pillars: Project Another Country," “explores fundamental ideas about what creates community, what constitutes family, and how homes are fabricated around human needs and relationships.”

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan tackle displacement, community development, and memory in their cities and structures made of cardboard. Their work ranges from these sculptures and installations to drawing, paintings, and works on paper. Their current, major installation at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, “Pillars: Project Another Country,” “explores fundamental ideas about what creates community, what constitutes family, and how homes are fabricated around human needs and relationships.”

“After relocating their center of activity from the Philippines to Australia in 2006, expressions of their own identity and ‘habitat’ have become important themes,” Art Front Gallery says. “By making luggage sekking for new residences and community, their work makes us think about the increasing speed of human migration and urban development in the world today.”

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Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, installation, sculpture

dust, paul hazelton, sculpture

August 30, 2016

While some sculptors sift through piles of objects in antique stores for materials, British artist Paul Hazelton can construct pieces out of the dust that collects on them. His intricate pieces are built with dust, hair, paper scraps, cobwebs, and any unwanted material that collects in the corners of our houses. Pieces like the skeletal “Old Holbein,” constructed from dust and acrylic wire, remind one of both the fragility of the material and the human body it represents.

David Cerný Makes Social Commentary with Controversial Public Art

Anti Communism, David Cerný, Public art, sculpture, Social Commentary

June 19, 2015

Czech sculptor David Cerný has a reputation for being a "bad boy" artist. Although he rejects labels, he is most certainly a political artist, one whose works visually lash out against his government's hypocrisies. One of the first pieces to put him on the international map was a pink Soviet tank that served as a war memorial in Prague, followed by such sculptures as the Czech patron St. Wenceslas riding an inverted horse, and giant stainless steel babies crawling up the city's TV tower, to name a few. They are witty and bizarre but come from an intellectual place, even though the artist refuses to take himself too seriously. While he recognizes that his hometown in Prague is easily shocked, he does not create art for the sole purpose of shocking his audience.

Crystal Morey’s New Porcelain Sculptures Draw from 18th Century

Crystal Morey, porcelain, sculpture

October 17, 2018

With Crystal Morey's newest handmade porcelain sculptures, the artist takes influence from 18th century European art history. "Lush Anthesis," a body of work in a new show at Modern Eden Gallery in San Francisco, contains hybrid creations made from humans, flora, and fauna. Morey was last featured on HiFructose.com here.

Studio Visit: Behind the Scenes of Yoskay Yamamoto’s “Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun”

hellion gallery, installation, Toy Art, Yayoi Kusama, Yoskay Yamamoto

September 30, 2014

This Thursday, Yoskay Yamamoto will debut eighteen new paintings and sculptures at Hellion gallery in Portland, "Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun." For this show, Yamamoto chose to explore the balance between joy and melancholy. His paintings vary in style, inspired by artists like Paul Klee, Keith Haring, Yayoi Kusama, and Robert Indiana, to name a few. Images of their art are scattered around his Los Angeles studio where we paid him a visit.

Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan Craft Cities from Cardboard

Dust and Cobwebs: The Sculptures of Paul Hazelton

Crystal Morey’s New Porcelain Sculptures Draw from 18th Century

Studio Visit: Behind the Scenes of Yoskay Yamamoto’s “Rainy Day with a Chance of Sun”

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