Ethereal Morph

Ellen June is a sculptor from Canada. Her intricate and detailed sculptures took my breath away. She is currently selling these works of art on Etsy and you can follow her at Deviant Art.

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Antony Gormley

From March 26 through August 15, 2010, The Madison Square Park Conservancy will present Antony Gormley’s Event Horizon, a landmark public art exhibition, as part of Mad. Sq. Art 2010.

"In Event Horizon, thirty-one life-size body forms of the artist cast in iron and fiberglass will inhabit the pathways and sidewalks of historic Madison Square Park, as well as the rooftops of the many architectural treasures that populate New York’s vibrant Flatiron District. Event Horizon marks Gormley’s United States public art debut — a milestone for an artist whose work has garnered worldwide acclaim over the past 25 years.

“I’m thrilled to be working with New York: people and place,” says artist Antony Gormley. “I don’t know what is going to happen, what it will look and feel like, but I want to play with the city and people’s perceptions. My intention is to get the sculptures as close to the edge of the buildings as possible. The field of the installation should have no defining boundary. The gaze is the principle dynamic of the work; the idea of looking and finding, or looking and seeking, and in the process perhaps re-assessing your own position in the world. So in encountering these peripheral things, perhaps one becomes aware of one’s status of embedment.”

Antony Gormley originally created Event Horizon for London’s Hayward Gallery as part of the Blind Light exhibition in 2007. The sculptures were installed on bridges, rooftops and streets along the South Bank of London’s Thames River. In this New York incarnation, Antony Gormley has adapted this exciting project to Manhattan’s unique and awe-inspiring skyline."

This was an excellent explanation of what the artist is hoping to accomplish so I didn't add or change a thing. I'm hoping to catch a glimpse of one up close during my next visit.

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When I look at The World

Antonio Roybal is a figurative painter and sculptor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. He can began drawing at an early age to communicate with his two deaf sisters. Roybal’s work is inspired by Northern Renaissance Art and early Mannerism. His work has gained greater prominence beginning in 2002 with the distinguished honor of being named one of the top 100 contemporary Hispanic artists by The National Hispanic Cultural Center.

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Pieces of Us and Them

Kate MacDowell hand sculpts each of her pieces out of porcelain, the reason she states "for its luminous and ghostly qualities as well as its strength and ability to show fine texture. It highlights both the impermanence and fragility of natural forms in a dying ecosystem while paradoxically, being a material that can last for thousands of years..."

MacDowell attended Brown University and has traveled all across the globe. In her travels, she taught in urban high schools, produced websites in the high-tech corporate environment, and volunteered at a meditation retreat center in rural India. She is quite worldly and eco-friendly. And her pieces say even more...

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Seymour

Seymour was born in New Zealand in 1981. He studied Graphic Design at Wanganui School of Design, specializing in illustration and I especially love this sculpture piece. He currently resides in Berlin and stocks his works in galleries worldwide. He also has a blogspot!

Thanks Melanie!

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Manhandled.

Amongst what seems to be a chaotic mess of paint and distinct outlines and shapes, Antony Micallef has found that he can create a fiendish feeling with his artwork and sculptures. The dark undertones speak to the very core of a person and I especially love that some lines are more obvious than others. It leaves you with a creation of your own interpretation. While there are some that resemble a pre-scholars handy work, these embodied the essence of what art should be: Messy and imperfect. Human.

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Charles Krafft

Charles Krafft is not your typical artist. Charles was born in Seattle in 1947. His work specializes in porcelain, painted in blue and white, the style of Delft earthenware of Netherlands. Krafft describes his work to be eloquently completely non-functional and absurdly decorative. Working with plaster moulds, he slip casts all of his work. Once made, each piece is hand decorated with traditional Delft styling.

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