Scott Radke‘s carved figures teem with creepiness and absorbing detail. He offers a collection of new characters in the show “Home at Last” at Haven Gallery in Long Island, New York. The show’s figures evolve Radke’s longstanding fascination with the unsettling, each new work carrying both grace and a sense of magic. He was last featured on cctvta.com here.
Radke offers this on his new collection: “This is about three months of just letting my mind wander and throwing in little symbols of personal matters that go on in my daily life, coupled with just going about it intuitively,” he says. “It’s not often I get to do a large body of work to be grouped together.”
If you haven’t seen Radke’s work in a gallery setting in the past, you may have caught his characters making a cameo in Tim Burton’s 2010 film “Alice in Wonderland,” the Lewis Carroll adaption that featured wooded backdrops similar to the ones Radke’s works are often photographed inhabiting.
Darius Hulea's figures are forged in metal wire, yet carry a ghostly, apparating quality. The Romania-based artist depicts a range of figures, from Ferdinand I and violinst George Enesco to philosopher Mircea Eliade and sculptor Frederic Storck. The artist moves between differing types of metal, as well, including bronze, iron, steel, copper, and brass.
Zachary Eastwood-Bloom takes the idea of adding digital-like glitches to traditional sculptures to a visceral level. He created most of these sculptures while he was sculptor-in-residence at Pangolin London. He uses both digital and analogue means to craft the final product, unifying several disciplines for a startling end result.
Painted on wood, the textures of