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Bethany Krull and the Surrogate World
There’s so much good stuff about Sculptor Bethany Krull’s works that I will have to restrain myself from displaying them all. Krull’s seeds, insects, and invertebrates are more than just a celebration of the beautiful forms found in nature, but … Continue reading
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Tagged ant, Bertram Chandler, Bethany Krull, cricket, hermit crab, sculpture
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Attracted To Light
The above pictures are part of a glorious item that I would love to have clutched between my tarsal claws. It is a grand art book called “Attracted To Light“, by Mike and Doug Starn. It’s full of moths, of … Continue reading
Biophilia
Fantastic insects and other organisms populate Finnish artist Vladimir Stankovic’s Biophilia series of works, created in color pencils and digital tools.
Schwarm
A beautiful array of hanging ceramic beetles created this year by Beate Reinheimer and Ulrike Rehm under the name RaR for design distributor Thomas Eyck. The entire collection was shown at the Milan Furniture Faire. Schwarm consists of Ten ‘species’ … Continue reading
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Tagged Beate Reinheimer, beetle, ceramic, lynxandtelescope, nomenclature, Thomas Eyck, Ulrike Rehm
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Cyrus Tilton
As a semi-frequent attendee of the Oakland Art Murmur, an open-gallery art event that takes place every month, I have been lucky to be exposed to Cyrus Tilton’s works thanks to Vessel Gallery. Tilton’s sculptures are one of my favorite … Continue reading
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Tagged Bathynomus, Cyrus Tilton, grasshopper, installation, locust, sculpture, swarm, Vessel Gallery
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The Golden Fleece
Like the endless nature documentaries that invariably used a football field as the default unit of measurement for flea-jumping, nearly every educational book or film that mentions spiders always talked about the incredible unrealized potential of spider silk. “Pound for … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Institute of Chicago, Golden Orb, Madagascar, Nicholas Godley, Paul Camboué, silk, Simon Peers, spider
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Moths Under My Nose
Continuing an unfortunate trend in local insect-related art shows that I have missed, here are some works from Bay Area artist Ana Labastida. Her installation “Pullulate” is just one of several works involving moths and swarms, and was recently on … Continue reading
The Hybrids of Paul Paiement
There’s something gleefully unsettling about Paul Paiement’s “Hybrid” paintings. They seem innocent enough, a straightforward pop-art treatment of entomological portraits spliced with consumer products. But Paiement’s works lack any sort of easy symmetry, and as the eye is pulled back … Continue reading
The Metal Insects of Edouard Martinet
Don’t get me wrong. I love kitschy scrap-iron insects, even goofy ones made from VW Beetles. But the scrap-metal works of Edouard Martinet are on another plane of mechanistic existence. More than abstract robo-insects, we’re looking at accurate depictions of … Continue reading
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The Uncomfortable Insects of Sarah Garzoni
We frequently use insects as tools in industry, science, art and agriculture. We keep them as pets, kill them for clothes, and patent their genes. In that uncomfortable vein is a great collection of insect-related works from Sarah Garzoni. Though … Continue reading
