What Crazy Material Are These Dresses Made From? An Artist Challenges our Perceptions
Did you guess marble? I didn’t. I thought it was cotton—or some new chemically engineered fabric! It reminded me that “Perception is reality,” or so I have heard. “Who made these?” You ask. Meet Alasdair Thomson and his beautifully living marble sculptures. Mimicking the flow, and breathe that an…
NYFW Greenshows: Luis Valenzuela's Wearable Sculptures
Luis Valenzuela is both a fashion designer and a visual artist, and it shows in his creative use of eco fabrics (incorporating new types of unrefined silks) paired with sculptural and draped silhouettes. The dresses here were shown at the Greenshows as part of New York Fashion week. Wearable art…
Amazing Art Sculptures Made From Recycled Clothing
“You are what you wear” meets “the personal is political.”
Copenhagen's (COP15) Amazing Green Art
No successful movement works without important art. Where would the hippies have been without their unique (ehm, hallucinogenic) posters, 2nd wave feminism without all those novels and creative nonfiction writings, the Vietnam protests without the music, or Civil Rights without heart-wrenching photography? Not only did these pieces of art change…
Eco Artist Claire Morgan: Ecological Order and Disorder
Fantastic Mr Fox, 2008. Torn black polythene bags, taxidermied fox, nylon, acrylic, rabbit meat 2.4m (h) x 2.4m (d) x 2m (w) Exhibited at the James Hockey Gallery, UCA, Farnham, UK Photo courtesy of Claire Morgan Visual artist Claire Morgan, who hails from Belfast and now lives in London, stages…
Oh Me Oh My! The Summer Exhibition at Art Omi
The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi International Arts Center 1405 County Rt. 22 Ghent, New York 12075 There’s always a bit more time to go see art exhibits in the summer, but it can be so hard when it’s nice out to contemplate spending a day inside. Luckily, there’s…
Still Rock N’ Roll: The Balanced Stone Art of Shane Hart
Guest post by Alicia Lubowski-Jahn All images by Paul Gregory Newman Stillness and Dynamism A photograph of the sculpture artist Shane Hart creating an installation of balanced stones conveys a profound sense of stillness amidst dynamism. His work’s mesmerizing tranquility at a moment of seemingly impossible balance inspires a parallel…
Global Warming Showing Up at MOMA
The Pejovschi exhibit is on the huge wall behind the dramatic sculpture in the foreground. I went to check out the Richard Serra sculpture exhibit at MOMA the other day, and what to my wondering eyes should appear? An amazing exhibit of line illustrations on a giant wall on the…
Sustainable Art Blooms in London
Photo by Edmund Sumner I love it when art and sustainability meet and create something wholly unexpected, something that’s fun, and gets us to think a little differently than we did before. The London Oasis is a flower-shaped sculpture, which, like a real flower, absorbs the sun’s energy (with photovoltaic…
