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Another weirdo who works mainly in sculpture and nurses a pickle fascination (they're a recurring motif). His experiments with material and representation are always fun and thought-provoking.
Another weirdo who works mainly in sculpture and nurses a pickle fascination (they're a recurring motif). His experiments with material and representation are always fun and thought-provoking.
Working somewhere between the second and third dimensions, David Spriggs has a wild technique—he builds powerful organic compositions with thousands of finely-painted, flat, layered transparencies.
Working somewhere between the second and third dimensions, David Spriggs has a wild technique—he builds powerful organic compositions with thousands of finely-painted, flat, layered transparencies.
Sculptural work mixing humor with tragedy, cheesiness with beauty, and modern technique with classic.
Sculptural work mixing humor with tragedy, cheesiness with beauty, and modern technique with classic.
Charming and mind-boggling animals created out of balloons. This guy's cute, but go look at the insects—they're extremely visceral and striking.
Another weirdo who works mainly in sculpture and nurses a pickle fascination (they're a recurring motif). His experiments with material and representation are always fun and thought-provoking.
Playing with the idea of disguise and identity, Gillian Wearing is a conceptual artist working across photo, film, and performance. In our favorite series, she creates masks and poses for self-portraits. She's been herself at various ages, her uncle, her mother, her brother, and a multitude of famous personalities (Lily Cole, Diane Arbus). If she wasn't an artist, she might have been a serial killer.
Magical and meaningful, narrative-driven illustrations and paintings.
Charming and mind-boggling animals created out of balloons. This guy's cute, but go look at the insects—they're extremely visceral and striking.
From the pink-frosted donuts to the juicy pork chops on Homer's plate, watching the Simpsons always leaves us hungry. See all the enticing treats—isn't the sparkling salted pretzel beautiful?—on the Springfield Cuisine account.
In this Gillian Wearing series, the artist accosted strangers on the street and asked them to write out their current thoughts for a portrait. In the age of endless #mood on social media, this might not seem too wild, but at the time it was wholly original and revealing.
Playing with the idea of disguise and identity, Gillian Wearing is a conceptual artist working across photo, film, and performance. In our favorite series, she creates masks and poses for self-portraits. She's been herself at various ages, her uncle, her mother, her brother, and a multitude of famous personalities (Lily Cole, Diane Arbus). If she wasn't an artist, she might have been a serial killer.
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Working somewhere between the second and third dimensions, David Spriggs has a wild technique—he builds powerful organic compositions with thousands of finely-painted, flat, layered transparencies.
Another weirdo who works mainly in sculpture and nurses a pickle fascination (they're a recurring motif). His experiments with material and representation are always fun and thought-provoking.
Another weirdo who works mainly in sculpture and nurses a pickle fascination (they're a recurring motif). His experiments with material and representation are always fun and thought-provoking.