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Brooklyn-born artist RAE enjoys leaving Urban Folk Art gifts in and around the streets of New York for the everyday person to gaze at. His murals, found-object sculptures, and single-line ink drawings usually reside on city streets off the beaten path. But don’t hesitate to look right under your nose, because when no-one’s looking, you’ll be surprised what he can get away with.
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I consider this man a modern master of applying paint onto an array of different canvases. Bryan Keith Lanier is inspired by dreams, mythology and pop-culture. Among my favourite pieces are his wonderfully well-painted studies of Greek and Roman stone sculptures, which he then throws into these dream-like settings.
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Playing with the relationships between heavy materials and negative space, Brock Ruhmor, creates emotional, abstract, organic sculptures in both large and small scale. Ruhmor states that his intimately scaled pieces ‘sport an earned surface of wax, glaze, paint, and fire’.
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When I first stumbled upon these images of Daphne Wright’s works, I was in awe of how simple yet haunting they are. Born in Ireland, she is known for her life-size sculptures of animals in their lifeless state. As macabre as the idea might initially seem, the metaphorical meaning may be endless to those who view it. Her works define that sense that there can be beauty in death.
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I am just amazed by Jennifer Maestre’s works. The Massachusetts-based artist creates unique sculptures of sea urchins that burst with colors and detail. The amazing part of her work is the fact that they were all created with just 1-inch segments of colored pencils: hundreds of them. From its characteristic spines and texture, she chooses to use the sea urchin as her main inspiration because of its form and function. She plays with the simple idea that something so beautiful can also be so dangerous. Truly beautiful.
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I am a huge fan of these bizarre sculptures by American artist Nancy Fouts. She creates sculptures using real found objects and combines them with a great sense of humor and a surreal conceptual twist.
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These intricate animal and insect sculptures made from recycled objects were created by French artist Edward Martinet. He makes use of everyday objects, from old typewriters, kitchen utensils, to whatever else he thinks he could make use of.
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Mathilde Roussel, a conceptual installation artist from Paris, created this series of paintings that chronicle the suspended sculptures of growing grass and slowly transforms as time passes by.
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Known worldwide for his large-scale public engagement artworks, the UK-based artist, Luke Jerram, creates sculptures, installations, live arts projects and gifts. He encourages people to interact and have fun with his work.
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Beware! London-based sculptor Alessandro Gallo has created a world where humans and mutants are infused into one as they go about their regular, daily lives.
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When I first stumbled across Lauren Clay’s sculptures, I was blown away by the colours and kooky forms. These sculptures, which combine painted paper, wood and foam, have an other-worldly quality about them. I particularly like the pieces Both Sides in Equal Parts and A Good Measure, Pressed Down, Shaken Together, Running Over. It is as though a cartoon alien has left its remnants behind on earth.
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Haroshi became infatuated with skating in his early teens so it’s only natural that he started using decks as the medium for his artworks. His wooden mosaic style is made by stacking and gluing a heap of decks together and shaving the final artwork into the decks. Any object that gets a second life is okay with me, especially when they have been crafted into sculptures as beautiful as Haroshi’s.
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French Lavoirs are beautiful old-fashioned laundrettes and this is one of my favourites. Water continually runs through, so it adds to the atmosphere. The art work is made up of constructed wrapped sculptures inspired by insects and originally started life as photos of discarded plastic. Plastic is truly the material of our age, so I wanted to [...]
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Somehow Clemens Behr’s amazing installations and sculptures remind me of the collective consciousness arising out of the detritus of our overdriven reality.
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The anti-war stance and bleak outlook on the human condition isn’t exactly subtle in Al Farrow‘s sculptures, but if you’re going to be blunt about a statement, you might as well say it with flare and conviction, which is exactly what he does with his awesome body of work, particularly his Reliquaries series in which he builds churches, mosques, temples, and religious relics out of bullets and guns.
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