Art
July 24, 2012

Intricate Detailed & Fragile Mouth of Sand Sculpture

New York-based Cuban artist Liset Castillo challenges the typical notions of beauty with very temporary sand sculptures. Mouth of Sand is just one of the many pieces from this body of work entitled Human Studies. In her labor-intensive process, Castillo creates life-size sand forms that resemble models found in high-gloss magazines.

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Art
July 22, 2012

Animal Watercolor Portraits Burst with Color

Oregon-based artist Dean Crouser produces some of the most fantastic watercolor paintings of animals. His lively renditions feature a multitude of vibrant colors that fit so perfectly, they make you rethink about the real colors typically found in these wild creatures. Crouser exhibits a truly artistic eye, mixing shades of green with reds, blues, and browns in the mane of a bear as well as an equally diverse collection of hues in his other subjects.

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Art
July 20, 2012

Molecule-Like Clusters Amazingly Form the Human Body

For more than forty years, British artist Antony Gormley has impressed us with thought-provoking installations about our own existence as human forms and the relationship our bodies have with the space around us. We have been witness to many of his shockingly massive sculptures including his 200,000 figurative clay mounds that completely dominate every square inch of any exhibit space and his geometric human forms that are frighteningly realistic in shape and structure.

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Art
July 19, 2012

Three-Dimensional Magazine Sculptures Defy All Boundaries

Korean Yun-Woo Choi is an emerging artist who creates incredibly impressive sculptures using rolled up pages of magazines. Though not much information can be found on the artist, he did say in a fairly recent interview that he was inspired by three artists you may already be familiar with: Anish Kapoor, Tara Donovan, and Tom Friedman. Can you see their influences in his works?

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