Robert Rauschenberg – Monogram
There are few artists whose work I admire more than that of Robert Rauschenberg. Not only for his work itself, but how it pushed boundaries of how art was considered. In 1964, after Robert Rauschenberg won the Venice Biennale Grand…
ROA Explores Interior Space
ROA is a Belgian native whose work is well-known enough that most people familiar with contemporary street art in even the vaguest way will recognize his work. In 2010 the landmark lawsuit to preserve his (legal) work in Hackney helped pave…
Maskull Lasserre
I first saw Maskull Lassere‘s sculptures in 2011 at an art gallery in the Belgo Building in downtown Montreal. To tell the truth I saw a photo of one of his pieces on Colossal and got so excited I rushed straight…
Daniel Arsham
There are some people in this world so full of talent, creativity, and the ability to do a fantastic job at everything they touch that you’re left awestruck by them. Daniel Arsham is one of those people. Born in Cleveland…
Ryan and Trevor Oakes
Twins that make art together has a certain ring to it. Ryan and Trevor Oakes fit this bill. While they have done a considerable amount of work, I occasioned upon their work on the excellent blog The Jealous Curator and…
Gehard Demetz Wood Sculpture
Don’t let the name fool you – Gehard Demetz is an Italian artist, born in Bolzano in 1972 and currently living in Selva di Val Gardena. His debut show was in 2005 and he has caught the attention of the art…
Nazi Buddhist Iron Man from Space is Fake
I know it sounds like something from Indiana Jones, but it’s true. Last month, the headlines looked like this – Priceless Tibetan Buddha statue looted by Nazis was carved from meteorite Relic taken by SS in 1930s analysed by researchers…
Chie Aoki
I saw a picture of Chie Aoki‘s work on the Art Listings Professional blog and was pretty much blown away. These peculiar transformative sculptures are failry opaque to me in terms of meaning but as visual object I find them,…
Lori Nix
Lori Nix is a NYC-based photographer. To digress briefly, a few days ago I wrote about Ray Caesar: For those of you who haven’t worked with 3D software, imagine being a highly skilled painter who only paints on sculptures that…
Christina Bothwell
I first noticed Christina Bothwell’s work on Pinterest, a cast glass and ceramic sculpture of what looked suspiciously like a woman’s spirit rising from her dead body. Of course, being Pinterest, there was no info on the artist or even…
