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Ann Weber Elevates Discarded Cardboard Boxes and Staples to New Heights in Billowing Sculptures

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“You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows” (2020), cardboard, staples, and polyurethane, 101 x 44 x 20 inches. Exemplifying the possibilities of combining humble materials with a good dose of resourcefulness, Ann Weber ’s monumental sculptures find their beginnings in discarded cardboard boxes.

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Through Bronze Mushrooms and Gilded Cicadas, Xiaojing Yan Links Chinese Legend and Nature

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Based in Toronto, the artist has created a body of work that’s broad in medium and subject matter, ranging from small sculptures installed in circular formations to bulbous paper lanterns with rotating parts. The texture is enhanced, the artist shares, to mimic concentric tree rings and prompt questions of aging and time.

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Four Exceptional Ceramics Collections That Elevate the Everyday

Azure Magazine

Now, the studio offers textural and emotive hand-thrown objects, inspired by nature and embodying both tangible and visceral memories. London Plane candles are hand-poured and the perfectly imperfect vessels can be refilled or used as containers or small sculptures when empty. Both shown in Rose Quartz.

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Textural Sculptures by Artist Jessica Drenk Use Junk Mail, Book Pages, and Q-Tips to Explore Materiality

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2 pencils, to create organic sculptures that are chaotic and arresting explorations of the substances themselves. Bundled Q-tips spread across a site-specific installation like the roots of a tree, a carved section of plywood reveals concentric patterns, and strips of junk mail are plastered together in long waves. inches. ?.

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Innumerable Pieces of Dyed Clay Envelop Meditative Sculptures in Subtle Patterns and Gradients

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“Clements Shade” (2020), porcelain ,29.5 Thin ribbons of porcelain ripple across the surfaces of Alice Walton ’s abstract sculptures. Gently sloped domes and pillars are covered in countless individual strips, which vary in thickness and length and add irregular texture and depth to the finished pieces.

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Spotlight on Trailblazing Female Designers: Part 1

Design Milk

To mark the occasion, we’re partnering with the Female Design Council (FDC) for the third year ( 2020 , 2021 ) to put all eyes on their talents. I then further abstracted ‘Boom’ by manipulating it into shapes and surface textures for “Dark Matter” You can listen to ‘Boom’ that inspired the form HERE.

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Textured Patchworks of Sequins, Plastic Beads, and Oil Paint Comprise Trevon Latin’s Dazzling Portraits

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His mixed-media portraits and stuffed sculptures, which uniquely contrast color, texture, and medium in striking collaged pieces, draw their founding characteristics from queer nightlife, virtual reality, and mythology.