Tag:
Sculpture
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Immigrant Yarn Project
Read more: Immigrant Yarn ProjectThe Immigrant Yarn Project (IYP), organized and created by Cindy Weil was a massive work of public and democratic (crowd-sourced), yarn-based art honoring our immigrant heritage and promoting tolerance, difference, and community. Weil reached out across the state and beyond…
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“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS
Read more: “Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture commissioned by MAKE ART/STOP AIDS“Medicine Man,” a mobile sculpture that MAKE ART/STOP AIDS commissioned from San Francisco-based artists Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas. The piece is constructed of pill bottles that Goldstein and Kapellas, and their partners, saved up from treatment regimens dating as…
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Life Pods
Read more: Life PodsIn Jan. 2016 Karl Mattson from Rolla, BC displayed some of his unique sculptures for exhibition at Lantern Gallery in Winnipeg, Manitoba. His ‘Life Pods’ are sculptures constructed using only found objects.Tools, metal fragments, debris, and fuel tanks are some…
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The Democracy Machine
Read more: The Democracy MachineThe Democracy Machine! is a performative sculpture that gives participants the opportunity to experience the thrill of democracy in action, in a competitive game that challenges people to work together toward understanding a better society. Using the spectacle and play…
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Edward Snowden bust
Read more: Edward Snowden bustWhile most people slept, a trio of artists and some helpers installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn on Monday April 6. They fused it to part of the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument, a memorial to Revolutionary…
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Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artist
Read more: Environmental protection is the greatest religion, says Chinese artistBy a pond inside one of the entrances to Beijing’s Chaoyang Park lies a cluster of one and two storey red pyramid-shaped buildings. Sculptures of Gandhi and Lincoln and other famous figures sit in the quiet woods nearby. This is…
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui
Read more: Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El AnatsuiThe first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into…