Lines and Colors art blog

Category: Sculpture & Dimensional

  • Antoino Gaudi documentary

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    It is often said that architecture is a form of sculpture. At its worst, this means that many of our cities are chock-a-block with horribly soulless and mind-numbingly boring modernist sculpture that we would be hard pressed to think of as art. On the other hand, perhaps the most obvious and beautiful manifestation of this…

  • Dale Chihuly

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    Dale Chihuly is an American sculptor who does amazing and beautiful works in colored glass. His works range from small pieces to large scale installations, both outdoor and indoor, often accompanied by the striking effects of dramatic lighting. A large part of the appeal of his work, aside from the beautiful character of the material…

  • Brian Dettmer

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    Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer cuts into books, of which he which he has first sealed the edges, proceeding one page at a time, cutting around images and other areas of interest and exposing layers of pages beneath. He does not remove or replace content, he works with the internal arrangement of…

  • Chris Ryniak

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    On his blog Chris Ryniak describes himself as “monster & critter maker”. On his website you will find galleries of his monsters & critters both as paintings (also here) and as small scale sculptures in epoxy, glass, vinyl and acrylic. My timing is a little off with this post, in that his show at MyPlasticHeart…

  • Jordu Schell

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    Jordu Schell makes monsters; icky, scary, grotesque and hairy, monsters, aliens, creatures and beasties of all manner and configuration. Schell is a sculptor and concept artist working in the film industry. His credits include Avatar, Leigon, War of the Worlds, Hellboy, Galaxy Quest and many other feature films. Schell is primarily a sculptor, working in…

  • Michael Paul Smith

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    I don’t normally feature photography on Lines and Colors, not that I don’t think of photography as an art form; I just feel that it’s dealt with better on many other sites, and seems different enough to be in a separate category from the art forms I feature. But the photographs of Michael Paul Smith…