Mixed Media Sculptures / Multi Media Sculptures (1,220)

Artists Describing Their Art:

William Nelson - The Corporate Lease Program, initiated in 1994, leases one of a kind fine art and limited addition fine art prints to the Washington D.C., Maryland and Virginia community on a monthly basis. Businesses may choose from a variety of works or have custom art created for them. The works vary from realism to abstraction, reflecting in its variety of techniques and styles the evolution in fine art. Leasing has many benefits. While businesses obtain quality art at a fraction of the cost of purchasing their own, the lease fees are used to purchase supplies each year, helping the struggling artist community stay creative. In addition, by placing art in the community, businesses help our collection serve as an outreach program to educate and familiarize the D.C., Maryland, and Virginia community with America's leading contemporary artists and the Where Art Thou family. The lease fees of the matted and framed prints range from $25 to $500 per month including insurance, delivery and installation in the company's office. After the 23-month leasing period, the works are collected and returned to the Where Art Thou gallery where the entire collection is again made available for lease to businesses ...

Grace Newman - Following in a long tradition of art and the body, my interests lie with themes of life, death and illness. I make highly formal sculptures using materials that are often medical, such as syringes, hypodermic needles, microscopic slides and plastic airline tubing. These materials bring the work into the context of medical intervention and of the hospital as place. They also help to convey feelings of the fragility and vulnerability of the human condition. Using these materials as a starting point in an exploratory way, the work develops organically, acting on natural instincts, and taking inspiration from both personal experience and research. As a result, each piece is autonomous. Artists of influence include Eva Hesse, Helen Chadwick and Mona Hatoum. ...

Steven Laurie - My interdisciplinary studio practice consists of designing and fabricating homebrew prototype machines, handheld tools and site specific image-based installation projects. Considered by some people as "hyper-masculine" or examples of "boy art", my work thoughtfully glimpses at the unfolding aspects of masculinity through the visual cues of working class consciousness, cultural truisms, prototypes and customs. I employ traditions of performance art, kinetic sculpture and mark-making to consider how actions/processes such as burning rubber, engine revving and stereo thumping are used to communicate a sense of working-class kinship and residency. These everyday subversions are pared down in my work by building and demonstrating stylish petrol fired machines that generate tire smoke and sound through the output of torque, friction, heat, vibration and engine exhaust. The materials in my work reference Princess Auto and Canadian Tire as a means to concede to a type of lowbrow consumer glut that is bred from a vision of 'ultimate' performance and a yearning to tune and tweak. From a personal connection to a blue-collar lifestyle my artwork hints towards pastime activities like customization, modification and maintenance as insightful moments of spatial production and cultural expression....

Kalina Jankowska - The purpose of my artworks is to uplift the viewer's spirit, to energize the viewer with positive emotions and to enliven the space with my artworks. Presently I am working on two series of soft sculptures:'Enchanted Forest' and'Inside the Brain'. The purpose of 'Enchanted Forest' is to create a fairytale-like, energizing and whimsical space, where one can escape the mundane. In the world where so much of contemporary art practice is a political or social/cultural commentary, I do something which is an antidote to this postmodern artistic trend, such as creating an aestetically pleasing space where one can relax. Through the use of vibrant colours which positively influence our emotional state, through the use of fragile and ephemeral materials which create the feelings of lightness in a viewer, and through the use of abstraction which minimizes associations with things from the 'real' world, I investigate and provide this child-like spirit, innocent space. 'Enchanted Forest' is simply meant to bring some joy and peace of mind upon seeing beautiful things. 'Enchanted Forest' is an artwork that,in an abstract way, synthesizes the imaginary, mysterious mutations of tree-branch forms with the magical, vibrant colours of ...

Steve Kiene - My art expresses fundamental cosmological and spiritual concepts such as the balances in nature, regeneration and growth, and the interdependence of all things. I want to express how man & nature are interconnected. In today's modern culture, many have forgotten, that all things, living and inert, have a part in our relationship with life itself. The tree branch carvings illustrate how man is just a branch of the larger organic cosmos. Where Man and Nature become one....

Johan Gaellman - I change material and subject now and then. Sculptural works including photography and labyrinthic ideas was my main interest for some time, as well as painting, printmaking and installations. Since 2008 I concentrate on drawing, creating slightly weird portraits, playing with patterns, shapes and lines. /Johan Gaellman ...

Patrick Wilchar - While exploring several mediums of artistic expression, metal sculpting became my most expressive and satisfying art form. Essentially a self taught artist, I express my art through the free form original sculpting of bronze, brass, copper and steel. My entwining of emotion and molten metal have been displayed and well received in juried as well as one artist shows throughout the west coast. My one of a kind sculptures of human, wildlife & abstract from inches to lifesize can be found in private collections and commercial institutions abroad as well as in the United States....

Andrew Sweet - Andy Sweet is a Denver based sculptor who uses stone, steel and occasionally other mediums to construct his sculptural statements. His studio is part of the Ironton Gallery and Studio in the RiNO art district north of downtown. He is currently represented by Ironton Studios and Gallery in the RiNO district of Denver. Andy left his first career as a clinical psychologist in 1998 and went to Art school here in the Denver area at RMCAD. From 200-2005 he worked as a full time sculptor and learned the art world while he did this. Today Andy has added practice (of psychology) to his work week 2 days, but still produces art at the Ironton Studio complex. "Visit Sweet Studio's website for more information on Abstract Stone Sculpture Art " ...