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Zemer Peled Creates Floral Sculptures from Ceramic Shards

Zemer Peled's porcelain work emerges from an inherently violence process. She smashes her handmade ceramics to pieces and uses the shards as new sculpting material. Peled constructs organic shapes out of the jagged fragments, evoking floral arrangements and at times, biomorphic, abstract masses. But despite her freeform, intuitive process, the Israeli artist creates her final sculptures with great attention to organization and detail. The shards appear nearly uniform and are carefully juxtaposed next to one another to create rhythmic shapes that emulate nature.

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Zemer Peled’s porcelain work emerges from an inherently violence process. She smashes her handmade ceramics to pieces and uses the shards as new sculpting material. Peled constructs organic shapes out of the jagged fragments, evoking floral arrangements and at times, biomorphic, abstract masses. But despite her freeform, intuitive process, the Israeli artist creates her final sculptures with great attention to organization and detail. The shards appear nearly uniform and are carefully juxtaposed next to one another to create rhythmic shapes that emulate nature.

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ceramics, porcelain, sculpture, Zemer Peled

figurative, Philip Jackson, sculpture

July 26, 2016

Scotland-born sculptor Philip Jackson has crafted faithful depictions of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mahatma Gandhi, and Sir Matt Busby and served as the Royal Sculptor to Queen Elizabeth II. Yet, Jackson’s also known for his modernist, dramatic gallery works, with characters that are less specific and in many cases, eerie and haunting. The quality present each of these works is Jackson’s seasoned knack for form and inspiring awe.

Nicki Crock Imagines a Magical Dreamscape of Paper Houses

installation, Nicki Crock, sculpture

May 4, 2016

Nicki Crock is a conceptual artist currently working in Columbus, Ohio, but her head is in the clouds. Her installation series "Dream House" transforms space into an ethereal, geometric floating dreamscape made out of white paper. "A dream house is something to aspire to and long for," she says. "What better form could a daydream take shape in, than with something that we, as humans, already use to fulfill our imaginations: clouds."

On View: Yayoi Kusama’s “Obsesión Infinita” at Museo Tamayo

Museo Tamayo, sculpture, Yayoi Kusama

January 8, 2015

Currently on view in Mexico City's Museo Tamayo, influential Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama's first Latin American retrospective, "Obsesión Infinita" (or "Infinite Obsession"), features an extensive array of interdisciplinary works created from 1950 to 2014. Kusama's career has taken many turns over the years (we covered her work at length in HF Vol. 25), but the artist has always maintained her penchant for the experimental and irreverent.

The Riveting Work of Cai Guo-Qiang

Cai Guo-Qiang, Installation Art, sculpture

August 17, 2019

Cai Guo-Qiang's work, including the monumental “Sky Ladder,” transforms the space with seemingly minimalist strokes. However, much of the work comes out of meticulous planning and labored execution. Recent portraits also continue the artist's use of surprising materials, such as the gunpowder portraits below.

Zemer Peled Creates Floral Sculptures from Ceramic Shards

Philip Jackson’s Dramatic Sculptures Loom and Enchant

Nicki Crock Imagines a Magical Dreamscape of Paper Houses

On View: Yayoi Kusama’s “Obsesión Infinita” at Museo Tamayo

The Riveting Work of Cai Guo-Qiang

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