Ninja October 21st, 2009
Nagano-based artist, Ryuji Nakamura designs and crafts airy sculptures, clothing, interiors, and furniture from humble white paper. She was the 2007 Tokyo Designer’s Week winner and has won the Good Design Award, JCD design Award, and Nashop Lighting Award.
Living Design Gallery
Hechima chair
Dress/coures de courel
Nami chair
Kuma
Ninja October 12th, 2009
Jess Wainer has been working with ceramics since the tender age of 10! She later went to study glass, sculpture, and new media installation at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and sgraffito at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts.
Jess has developed her own technique of carving free-hand line drawings into hand-blown glass vases. You can purchase her beautiful pieces here.
Ninja September 30th, 2009
Atlanta-based Brian Dettmer and Helsinki-based Sami Havia breathe new life into cassette tapes.
Brian Dettmer:
Dead Bird, 2005
Altered Cassette Tapes
Photo credit: Packer Schopf Gallery
Skull Mutation 1 (Classical), 2007
Altered Cassette Tapes
15 x 16 x 20cm
Photo credit: Mito
Bull Skull, 2007
Altered Cassettes Tapes
56 x 44 x 37cm
Photo credit: Mito
Goat Skull, 2007
Altered Cassette Tapes
18 x 34 x 19cm
Photo credit: Mito
Sami Havia:
Blind Melon – Nico, 2006
aerosol acrylic & pencil on c-cassettes
Mos Def – Black On Both Sides, 2006
aerosol, paper & felt-tip pen on c-cassettes
Michael Jackson – Thriller, 2006
aerosol & alkyd on c-cassettes
DJ Krush – Code 4109, 2006
aerosol, acrylic & alkyd on c-cassettes
NOFX – Punk In Drublic, 2006
aerosol, ink & acrylic on c-cassettes
Ninja December 29th, 2008
Penguin is a Tetris addict and has worn out the buttons on his Nintendo DS
Photos by Justin Sachtleben via sleeps to dream
Related postsNinja July 31st, 2008
School of Visual Arts
Summer Residency Programs
Open Studios 2008
Featuring participants in the following residencies
Painting and Mixed Media
Sculpture, Installation and New Media Art
Printmaking and Book Arts
Public Art
Photography
Illustration and Visual Narrative
Exhibition/Reception
Thursday, July 31, 2008
6:00 PM–9:00 PM
Locations
141 West 21st Street, Fourth and Eighth Floors (Painting)
141 West 21st Street, Ninth Floor (Printmaking, Illustration, Public Art)
141 West 21st Street, First Floor Westside Gallery (Photography)
30 West 17th Street (Sculpture)
Penguin June 27th, 2008
There’s a new show opening today at the Guggenheim. Louise Bourgeois.
Bourgeois is best known for her sculptures, which range in scale from the intimate to the monumental, and across a diverse array of mediums including wood, bronze, latex, marble, and fabric. Moving freely between abstraction and figuration, she has developed a richly symbolic visual idiom that encompasses totemic forms, ambiguously gendered anatomical fragments, and towering spiders, as well as the assemblages of found objects that are encased in her environmental-scale installations.
For her art is not a job; it is a life. It is what you do when you get up in the morning, and what you continue to do all day, through headaches and phone calls, breakups and breakdowns, silences and celebrations. It is what you keep doing after dark, and when you can’t sleep at night.
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She has said that she works in response to emotions: fury at the past and fear of the present among them.
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Your daily life is propelled by fear? Draw fear. You can. Impossible to sleep at night? Make night your studio, the cloth you embroider with needs and dreams. The past is an obsession you can neither embrace nor release? Make an image of obsession, any image will do.- NYTimes
This is pretty much how I approach the stories that I write. Sometimes consciously, sometimes subconsciously. But I deal with my internal struggles and issues through my characters. I put them in the same situations, force them to deal with the harsh realities that I face. In a way, when they overcome it, I overcome it too. Of course, there are issues that are huge and require several stories to overcome, but it is extremely cathartic for me.
Luckily or unluckily, I don’t have the sort of issues that Bourgeois struggles with.
The show runs through Sept 28 at the Guggenheim Museum.
-Penguin
Related postsNinja May 9th, 2008
I admire sculptor London-based sculptor, David Mach and his enthusiasm:
When I have ideas I want to make them, and not just some of them, but all of them. As a result of that my sculpture covers a multitude of sins. I like to work in as many different materials as possible. It’s no understatement to say I am a materials junkie—jumping from highly-painted realistic cast fibreglass pieces to sculpture with coathangers, to a thatched barn roof laced with fibre-optics to designs for camera obscures (or at least the buildings to house them) and layouts for parks.
– David Mach
This piece was inspired by an image of Neil Armstrong when he landed on the moon.
Of his work, David says
The work is made up from hundreds of standard metal coathangers, welded to each other around a plastic positive later removed, and then silver nickel plated. What does it cost to send a man into space, to make him walk on the moon? I am fascinated by the effort of that, the science, the brainpower, the sheer physical power of the rockets. Billions of dollars spent over decades, invested in the best minds, and here I am, using the cheapest, throwaway nothing object, a coathanger, to portray that.
Portrait of his brother
Via Inventor spot
Related link
+ David Mach’s portfolio web site
Penguin May 2nd, 2008
From Wired:
Maestre was originally building with nails and a liquid rubber-type glue. She started to worry about inhaling all the toxic fumes, however, and began to experiment with different techniques until she settled on beading. Her method of choice? The peyote stitch.
Basilisk is one of Maestre’s most technically difficult sculptures because she wanted to create a more specific four-legged form. Depending on the size of the sculpture, it can take her up to two months to complete one sculpture.
Jennifer Maestre has a show coming up May 29- June 1 2008 at SOFA NYC with Mobilia gallery
Check out her site: Jennifer Maestre
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin January 31st, 2008
If you’re not familiar with Theo Jansen, he’s the one responsible for those beautiful walking sculptures powered by wind. Jansen introduces some new features to his creatures, such as the ability to remember, detect water, and hammer nails into the ground. I can’t wait for these things to show up on my beach.
-Penguin
Related postsPenguin November 1st, 2007
Born in 1964 in Heerlen, The Netherlands. Tom Classen went on to study sculpture at the St. Joost Academy in Breda. He lives and works in The Netherlands.
A soft object looks hard, light looks heavy and massive looks empty. He uses conventional materials like bronze or sand as well as rubber and cheap polystyrene. The content seems naive and funny, but it is serious and precise. Claassen uses unconventional forms to investigate the conventions of sculpture.
Related postsWhen seeing the work of Tom, people often want to touch it, to see if it’s real what their eyes are experiencing.
The works are a bit abstract, because the artist doesn’t want to create sculptures that already exist. His main focus is on how to make the outside look like the inside and then let the audience experience the sculpture. Continue Reading »
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