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Category: Sculpture & Dimensional

  • Kris Kuksi

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    Kris Kuksi is an artist of seeming contradictions. One moment he’ll be fascinating you with his grotesque, darkly themed “Mixed-media Assemblages”, or disconcerting you with his jarringly electric fantastic realist visions; and the next moment he’ll surprise you with classical portraiture, traditional figure drawing or a delicate, naturalistic rendering of a freshly opened orchid or…

  • Andy Paiko

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    Andy Paiko is a glass artist who creates glass sculpture as well as sculptural vesselware and traditional vesselware. I suppose “gothic” might be a term applied to his fascinating constructions of ornately crafted glass that often incorporate the skulls of small animals, spine-like constructions and other natural elements in ways that are slightly creepy but…

  • Spectrum 14

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    There are a number of illustration annuals, showcasing the editors’ choices for notable contemporary illustration. I look forward to several of them, The Society of Illustrator’s Annual, for example, but for many years (14 to be exact) my favorite illustration annual has been Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art, edited by Cathy Fenner and…

  • Ron Mueck

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    I don’t often devote a lot of attention to sculpture, but, as I noted in my recent post on Claes Oldenburg, one of the things art does at its finest is to shake up our preconceptions and show us the world with fresh eyes. Ron Mueck’s astonishing sculptures of ordinary, non-heroic people do just that.…

  • Claes Oldenburg

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    If you’ve been following lines and colors for the last month or so, you know I’ve been using the PBS broadcast on Monday nights of Simon Schama’s The Power of Art as a springboard for posts about related painters. Tonight’s show, however, is about Mark Rothko. Even though I occasionally like Rothko’s early Miro-like fantasies,…

  • Gian Lorenzo Bernini

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    In my mind there is a “short list” of great sculptors. In chronological order, it goes: Donatello, Michelangelo, Bernini. There are others, of course, but these guys have the corner offices. If I were being generous, I might give an office to Rodin as well, but he would be a junior partner in the firm.…