As a child, the clink of Legos knocking around a big bin stirred Nathan Sawaya’s creativity. Not much has changed.
The 39-year-old Manhattan artist stores more than 1.5 million Legos in his Lexington Ave. studio, organized in clear plastic containers by shape and color and stacked neatly onto shelves that reach well past his head.
The studio is filled with Lego artwork that has been featured in galleries around the world — garish skulls, leaping human figures, a pacing, caramel-colored dog, the goggling, pixelated head of Homer Simpson. [...]
Ron Mueck’s extraordinary hyperrealist sculptures are seen almost as rarely in public as the notoriously reclusive artist himself. But the sculptor has emerged from his small North London studio to return to Paris’ Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain for his first major European exhibition in seven years. [...]
A 24-foot-tall creation by sculptor Richard Jackson is making its mark and getting passers-by to take notice at the Orange County Museum of Art. [...]
Carefully crafted from silicone, pigment, resin and hair, the work depicts two nude bodies - each donning the sharp-angled head of a fox and about about one-quarter life size. Melbourne-based artist Sam Jinks presented his latest sculptural piece 'Unsettled Dogs' as part of Art Stage Singapore 2013. The artwork is strikingly realistic, reminiscent of work by Ron Mueck - carefully crafted from silicone, pigment, resin and hair to depict two nude bodies. [...]
Artist Gerry Judah has created the Lotus Central Display - sculpture installation for the 2012 Goodwood Festival Of Speed in West Sussex, England. [...]
The French artist has turned his hand at everything from painting and photography to film and installation, but he is best known for his audacious sculptures. [...]