Johnson Tsang’s Elaborate, Recent Figurative Distortions

The elaborate distortions created by Hong Kong-based sculptor Johnson Tsang continue to evolve, with a recent showing at Giant Year Gallery of works from his “Lucid Dream” series. Tsang was last mentioned on cctvta.com here, and he was recently featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 46.

“Recently, when I had a chance to look over my past works, as I prepared for a talk about my works, I discovered that I have a pattern in creation,” the artist said in a previous interview with the gallery BeinArt. “I found that I created work related to the theme of love after I made a couple of works expressing some negative messages. It seemed like I was answering with “love” to the questions arising from my work.”

See more of Tsang’s work below.

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Ceramic, Johnson Tsang, sculpture

arch enemy arts, graphic novels, sculpture, Troy Coulterman

September 8, 2015

Canadian sculptor Troy Coulterman, first featured in Hi-Fructose Vol. 27, creates colorful and surprisingly illustrative figures. Working mostly with resin and steel painted with acrylic, Coulterman's works enhance the quirkiness of every day people. For his current exhibition at Arch Enemy Arts gallery in Philadelphia, "Full Disclosure", Coulterman attaches geometric shapes to his subjects. In his show statement, he explains the meaning behind these strange appendages: "I chose these basic shapes because they are loaded with symbolism and have various meanings throughout different cultures. A triangle can represent future, truth or intellect, a circle can represent present, perfection or emotion and a square can represent past, destiny or beauty. Depending on who the viewer is these shapes can hold different meanings and that's what drew them to me.”

Preview: Colin Christian’s “Trypophobia” at Stephen Romano Gallery

Colin Christian, sculpture, Stephen Romano Gallery, Trypophobia

December 23, 2014

Trypophobia is the pathological fear of irregularly shaped holes. If looking at sponges, beehives, and raw meat makes you squirm, please look away. Colin Christian exploits people's innate discomfort with porous organic matter in his new work for his January 3 solo show, "Trypophobia" at Stephen Romano Gallery in Brooklyn. While Christian's doll-like sculptures have been featured on our blog many times, this is his most grotesque body of work yet. Toothy holes gnaw at the silicone flesh of his large-scale characters as if an alien parasite has invaded their bodies. Some of the sculptures feature close-ups of festering skin, which Christian displays in a medical fashion. He is clearly unafraid to repulse viewers with this exhibit.

Tina Yu’s Pop-Surrealist Hand Sculptures

Pop Surrealism, sculpture, Tina Yu

January 18, 2017

Tina Yu, a Chinese-raised, New York-based artist and designer, creates hand sculptures, which are used as pendants. These polymer clay pieces are painted with acrylics, and they move between delicate reflections of nature’s flora and fauna and something much bleaker.

Julie Rrap Demonstrates Absurdity of Beauty Standards with Sculptures and Photography

Julie Rrap, Photography, sculpture

March 24, 2015

Across her work in sculpture, photography, installation, and performance, Julie Rrap interrogates common symbols of femininity. Her somewhat disquieting work points to the idea of gender as a performance — one that is sometimes painful and uncomfortable to execute. Well-heeled feet are at the focus of many of Rrap's works, such as her sculpture Stepping Out, which features a pair of severed women's feet that have grown fleshy heels like a sort of impractical evolutionary mechanism. The piece hints at the pressure women face to modify their bodies to fit impossible beauty standards.

Johnson Tsang’s Elaborate, Recent Figurative Distortions

Troy Coulterman’s Sculptures Grow Colorful Shapes in “Full Disclosure”

Preview: Colin Christian’s “Trypophobia” at Stephen Romano Gallery

Tina Yu’s Pop-Surrealist Hand Sculptures

Julie Rrap Demonstrates Absurdity of Beauty Standards with Sculptures and Photography

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