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The Insect Art of Beth Cavener Stichter
My latest issue of Sculpture magazine came in the mail yesterday, the cover displaying the powerfully unsettling work of Beth Cavener Stichter. Her focus for many years have been on vertebrate animals; rabbits, goats and jackals whose exaggerated stances and humanlike … Continue reading
The Bottled Bugs of Colleen Paz
Last week at Oakland’s Art Murmur I got to play with some of these enthralling bug jars made by artist and designer Colleen Paz. A button awakens a frenetically oscillating insect inside each one. I’d love to own one of … Continue reading
The Larvacean Art of Rebecca Hutchinson
Rebecca Hutchinson builds delicate biomorphic forms out of fragile unfired paperclay, hangs them in an art gallery, and then destroys them after the show. Many of them look like ant nest casts or caterpillar cocoons, but what they really remind … Continue reading
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Tagged Alice Alldredge, larvacean, plankton, Rebecca Hutchinson, sculpture
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Record of the Insect War
Over the holidays lots of friends sent me this glorious link of Brian Chan‘s Insect Origami, beautiful sculptures of multi-legged invertebrates created by folding a single piece of paper. Coincidentally, I watched a documentary with my relatives over the holidays … Continue reading
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Tagged Brian Chan, colinaut, gerromorpha, juliabee, Jun Maekawa, mayfly, Origami, Petr Stuchlý, Phil Kuhns, Robert Lang, sculpture, Scutigera, Victoria Serova, water strider
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Cynipid Celebration!
Arielle Casale has created several hundred tiny ceramic sculptures inspired by wasp galls, and dangled them on long fishing line from above. There they hang like stars, as if the host tree they were embedded in had suddenly gone invisible, … Continue reading
Deck the Galls
If you asked me what insect truly embodies the spirit of the holiday season, I wouldn’t hesitate for an instant. What other insect decorates trees in festive baubles, spreading joyful great glowing red ornaments and brilliant translucent spheres? That’s right, … Continue reading
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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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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“Blinded to Small Beauty”
The Oreo Cameos of Judith Klausner recently made the rounds on the internet, but lesser known are her sculptures using insect parts. They are a flip side to her fast-food craftworks, giving an added dimension to her motives beyond the … Continue reading
