Category: Sculpture & Dimensional
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Shintaro Ohata
Shintaro Ohata is an artist from Hiroshima, Japan who is both a painter and a sculptor. Artists who are both sculptors and painters are not unusual. Ohata, however, frequently combines the two mediums in single works in which a painting and sculpture are displayed together as a mixed two dimensional – three dimensional work. The…
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Charles Parks
Charles Parks was a well known and much loved sculptor familiar to many in the Brandywine Valley area of Delaware and Southeastern Pennsylvania. His works grace public buildings and spaces in the region and across the country. Parks was originally from Virginia, moved to Delaware with his family when he was young, and studied at…
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Oleg Denisenko (update)
The wonderfully idiosyncratic graphics of Oleg Denisenko have a feeling of arcane instructional diagrams from some otherworldly past. Denisenko is a Ukrainian printmaker, painter, calligrapher and sculptor. His intricately rendered images of figures, horses and fantastical mechanisms always seem connected to the past, and rich with potential meaning, but unfettered in imagination. Since I originally…
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Mysterious paper scultures of Edinburgh
Since March of last year, a series of wonderful and whimsical paper sculptures have been anonymously left on tables and shelves in libraries in Edinburgh, Scotland. It feels like something from a novel, and may in some way have a connection to the detective novels of Ian Rankin, but there is no indication he is…
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Su Blackwell
Books, we are told, are on the way out — soon to be replaced by iPads and other widgets, complete with fake page-flipping gimmicks to assure us that we are in fact, still reading a book. We’ll forget for the moment that movies were supposed to be the death of books, just as surely as…
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Oldenberg’s Paint Torch at PAFA
When I was a student at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in the 1970’s there were two factions in the school, traditionalists and modernists. Those of us, both faculty and students, who were in the traditionalist faction thought the Academy, of all places, should be bastion of academic art tradition, steeped in the…