Category: Outsider Art
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Jessica Joslin
Jessica Joslin makes unusual objects that are a collision of sculpture, assemblage, jewelry and perhaps taxidermy. Seemingly displays in an unnatural history museum, Joslin’s sculptures consist of bone (real, cast or modeled), brass, sculpted and painted leather, beads, lamp fittings, wire, machine bolts, pins, feathers, pewter, glass eyes, and various antique hardware items arranged into…
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Antoni Gaudí
The Art Nouveau style that flourished around the turn of the 20th Century was notable not only for its international reach, but for its influence across many areas of artistic endeavor. The style is familiar in paintings and graphics like those of Alfons Mucha, but was also expressed in murals, mosaics, furniture, glassware, stained glass,…
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Theo Jansen
A number of sculpture related links have come up as a result of my post about Lawrence Northey last Thursday. Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures are particularly fascinating because they walk back and forth (literally) across the supposedly fixed line between art and engineering. These amazing artifacts are built of ultralight materials and constructed of levers…
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Ree Treweek (update)
When I first wrote about the delightfully original and idiosyncratic art of South African artist Ree Treweek back in March of 2006, I was a little disappointed in the lack of information about the artist and her work, and the limited number of her images available online. I was pleased when artist/blogger Siouxfire (Michael Curry)…
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Lawrence Northey
I don’t often feature sculpture on lines and colors. I probably should consider it more often. Sculpture can have, after all, both lines and colors. In the case of Lawrence Northey’s wonderfull small scale sculptures (the one shown here, “Jim & George: Space Cadets” is 30 inches [76cm]), the colors are those of polished brass,…
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the asia drawing portal
This is a tremendously rich source of articles and links to artists either working in Asia or of Asian descent living elsewhere. Though the emphasis is a bit more focused on contemporary artists, the site is a bit like lines and colors in terms of the different genres covered: illustration, gallery art, comics, concept art…