Creative Boom

APRIL 17, 2024

This year, the Lexus car maker exhibit is the first thing you see as you enter. And so, every year, they put a lot of time, effort, and money into developing a unique art installation that conveys their vision of the automotive future. This year, we got not one but two such exhibits under the joint heading of 'Time'.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 24, 2022

Bright, bold, and impossible to miss, Megan's art also focuses on female perspectives to tell unique stories. Originally from China, Megan Du is a London-based artist studying illustration at the University of the Arts London. It was like my first mini-exhibition," Megan tells Creative Boom.

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Colossal

APRIL 15, 2024

Photograph by Lorenzo Demaria (2022), limited edition of 30 Get ready to immerse yourself in a world of artistry and creativity at The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art, returning to Dallas for its 7th edition from May 9 to 12. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The Manila-based artist is known for his sculptural portraits of wild animals and fantastical creatures that layer hundreds of paper cutouts into stunning three-dimensional works. The metallic material also adds contrast to a pair of koi swimming in a circular yin and yang formation.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Evan Nesbit Pushes Paint in New Directions For a little saccharine eye candy take a look at artist Evan Nesbit’s textured paintings that beckon viewers for a visual taste. Marbled and Bewildered was his third solo exhibition at Van Doren Waxter gallery and New Yorkers are hungry for more. It is truly a cause for jubilation.

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Design Milk

MAY 7, 2024

Filipino-American artist Paolo Arao explores this concept – metaphorically and physically – with his second solo exhibition on view at the David B. Smith Gallery , aptly named Devotion , in a showcase of new textile works alongside collaborative totem sculptures that pull on patrons’ heartstrings.

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Creative Boom

JUNE 30, 2022

"I got so inspired that I decided to start experimenting with digital art and 2D, and publish it online every few days, no matter what. Growing an audience, Nikita started receiving commissions, and it wasn't long until he began working with his favourite music artists and exhibiting worldwide. And there we have it.

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Colossal

MARCH 4, 2024

“Chouette (Owl)” (2023), metal mixed media sculpture, 38 x 36 centimeters. Martinet sources his materials from flea markets and garage sales, seeing potential in a wide range of shapes, densities, and textures. In November, the artist will present a solo exhibition of new work at Sladmore Gallery in London.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 14, 2023

My favorite pieces from this year’s design exhibition featured bold, colossal, and playful forms all utilizing an eclectic mix of fun materials – each very well distinguished from one another, all still oozing that unmistakably cheeky and cheerful yet unorthodox design aesthetic I’m enamored by.

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Colossal

JUNE 2, 2023

In her solo exhibition Folies at Mariane Ibhrahim , an immersive, site-specific installation challenges notions of scale, while a range of drawings and three-dimensional pieces expand on the possibilities of paper with the addition of bronze and silk tapestries.

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Colossal

JANUARY 18, 2024

Photos by Red Photography, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, shared with permission In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park , artist Yukihiro Akama fashions a whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. Work in progress.

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Azure Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

As one of China’s oldest and most prestigious institutions of higher learning , Nanjing University, and in particular its renowned Department of Art Studies and Education, warranted a cultural institution of equal stature. Shanghai-based firm Atelier Diameter has answered the call with an expansion of the university’s on-campus art gallery.

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Colossal

APRIL 28, 2023

Sexton enjoys papier-mâché for its versatility and accessibility, using additional readily available materials like cloth, wire, and acrylic paint to build up each animal’s unique textures, patterns, and colors. Become a Colossal Member today and support independent arts publishing for as little as $5 per month.

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Design Milk

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It makes this exhibition and the corresponding city-wide programming for Stockholm Design Week 2024 a romantic idyll for creativity and collaboration. An interior snake light activates the sculptural form for visual expression.

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Colossal

AUGUST 22, 2023

All images © Adrian Arleo, shared with permission Honeycomb faces, a hound with hands for fur, and the all-seeing eyes of a badger are just a few of the hybrid figures in Adrian Arleo ’s striking sculptures. ” Radius Gallery in Missoula will host a solo exhibition of Arleo’s work next summer, and she regularly teaches workshops.

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Inkbot Design

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

From 1919 to 1933, the Bauhaus united fine arts and crafts to create practical yet beautiful designs for the machine age. He aimed to start a new movement in the visual arts that rejected the excessive historicism and ornamentation that defined late 19th-century design in favour of a modern , industrial aesthetic.

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 5, 2022

From Thomas Barger’s aptly named “Butter Chair 2” to Germane Barnes’ hair pick-inspired “Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Crown (4),” the 45 works now on view at SFMOMA’s new furniture show are – as the show’s title suggests – a sculptural equivalent of an opinion piece, chairs with something important to say. For more, tune in!

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Azure Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2022

One of the biggest impacts of the newly expanded Art Gallery of New South Wales , in Sydney, Australia, is made at the programmatic level. It also has a renewed direction, one that foregrounds Indigenous art and culture. And this is best represented in the elevated status of the Yiribana exhibition. The Inaugural Exhibition.

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Creative Boom

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Stocking Fillers Grumpy Ant plush toy by Aysha Tengiz If you have a friend who makes (or just appreciates) good art, check out the online shop of Aysha Tengiz, a London-based artist working within illustration, animation and textile design. It's packed with great products such as this plushie with a difference.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Argentina-born artist Claudia Fontes ( previously ) continues her Foreigners series with small sculptures of figures enveloped by plumes of porcelain. Until then, follow the artist on Instagram or head to her site to see more of her sculptural work.

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Colossal

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. She then applies layers of strips cut from other boxes and staples them into place in a repetitive, textured pattern. Photo by Ray Carofano.

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Colossal

MAY 17, 2022

From floral Soundsuits and found-object sculptures to a multicolor web of millions of pony beads, Forothermore surveys the 30-plus-year career of artist Nick Cave. Cave spoke with Colossal in an interview ahead of the show, saying, “Why now, why now this moment, why this exhibition, why this survey, and who is it for?

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Colossal

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

We’ve published dozens of articles on artist monographs and compendiums of broader topics across art and design and science and history over the last 12 months, and these are the 10 titles that impacted us most. Prime, Art’s Next Generation. Art and Climate Change. Ocean, Exploring the Marine World.

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Colossal

JANUARY 27, 2024

Captivated by themes of origin, extinction, preservation, and conservation, Lopez Island-based artist Kelly O’Dell explores the ammonite’s elegant form through hot glass sculpture. Vibrant colors and intricate textures embed each piece, almost as if they were brought back to life.

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Colossal

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Vine-like colorful coils of material overlap in Claire Lindner ’s latest sculpture collection, which blurs the line between organic and human-made forms. ” She creates tensions between aesthetics and textures, including soft and hard, light and heavy, and attractive and repulsive.

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Design Milk

MAY 25, 2023

During NYCxDesign 2023 , The Future Perfect launched a solo exhibition featuring new work by Chris Wolston. The Flower Power collection comprises 13 sculptural chairs and benches inspired by tropical flora seen in the mountains and forests surrounding Wolston’s adopted Colombian home.

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Creative Boom

APRIL 4, 2023

And while the results of these NLP tools range from the useful to the trivial, they still feel like something of a dark art with little useful connection to people's daily needs. Our cells became detailed, sculptural balloons. Our Voronoi plains became textured pebble structures. That's where Cohere comes in.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kiki Van Eijk and Joost Van Bleiswijk, otherwise known as Kiki and Joost , opened up their workshop during Dutch Design Week 2023 for an exhibition entitled Perpetuum Mobile , Latin for “perpetual motion.” “Each cushion tells a unique story, a fusion of diverse textiles that harmonize into a visual and tactile object.”

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Design You Trust

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

San Francisco-based artist Zai Divecha is captivating art enthusiasts with her latest solo show, “Phase Shift”, on display at Heron Arts (7 Heron St, SF CA) until March 25th. Divecha’s works feature animations and sculptures that pay tribute to early stop-motion devices like zoetropes and phenakistoscopes.

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Colossal

MAY 17, 2021

Rather than carve a pack of doggy doubles, the artist creates textured wooden sculptures of curly-haired poodles and acrobatic pugs imbued with different aspects of her own personality. If you’re in Portland, you can see Sano’s carved characters as part of a group exhibition running August 14 to 29 at Gallery Nucleus.

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Colossal

DECEMBER 23, 2020

If you’re in New York, her piece “Dance of the Pacific Coast Highway at Sunset” is permanently on view at The Museum of Arts and Design , and she’s also part of an upcoming group exhibition at R & Co. Until then, explore more of her textured sculptures on her site and Instagram.

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Creative Boom

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

But during the reign of Queen Victoria, jelly was serious business, as artist Florence Houston brings to life in her forthcoming exhibition. We're talking about huge wobbling, artisanal jelly sculptures used as centrepieces on a table, from grand home meals to opulent royal banquets.

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Design Milk

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Ukrainian artist-ceramicist Serhii Makhno is celebrating his inaugural gallery exhibition currently taking place at Les Ateliers Courbet in New York City. Biblioteka Bookshelves With ZEMLYA, Makhno has expanded upon the breadth of his work of sculptural lighting and ceramic objets by exploring new scales, forms, and functions.

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Design Milk

MAY 8, 2024

After resting a bit from our whirlwind visit to Milan Design Week 2024 , we’ve picked 11 of our favorite designers to watch, installations that made us think, and pieces we’d love to own from the hundreds of exhibitions, installations, pop-ups, and galleries spread across the city.

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Design Milk

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

” Their exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2023 was entitled Regeneration: Fashion From The Ground Up and explored what regeneration looks like in the fashion context through three lenses: Earth Care , People Care , and Fair Share. The longer the wearing time, the richer the texture will be.”

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Design Milk

OCTOBER 24, 2023

In 2016, his 35-foot towers of fluorescent-colored boulders landed in the Las Vegas desert, and now this month at Gladstone Gallery in New York, Ugo Rondinone debuts his newest astounding sculptures : 3 solid “lightning strikes” made from bright yellow painted bronze, each reaching over 20 feet tall. Ugo Rondinone: bright light shining.

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Creative Boom

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Opening this book is like unwrapping a present," says Jeremy Myerson, professor emeritus at London's Royal College of Art. I was obsessed with sensual experiences, from the splash of raindrops into puddles and the concentric circles they generate to the colours and textures of fabrics and the detail of woodgrains.

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