Eager Little Hands
Roses and Thorns: The Art of Liza Corbett
Tags: animals, art shows, baroque, bird wings, branches, deer, dolls, fairy tales, flowers, flowers in hair, ghosts, greek mythology, hair, historically inspired, illustrations, intricate line drawings, jeremy hush, little red riding hood, liza corbett, macabre, nature, neo-victorian, red, roses, skulls, soft color, surreal, swan, victorian, wolves
Midori Harima
These are a few of Midori Harima’s installations, made with Xeroxed images from a variety of sources, including magazines, books, and the Internet, which she crafted by sculpting the printed media on hollow structures, to create this eerie, flat, “3Dvs.2D” effect.
Tags: deer, eerie, installation art, macabre, otherworldly, papercraft, sculptures, surreal, weird sculptures, white
Coe & Waito’s “Jellyfish”
Coe & Waito (Alissa Coe and Carly Waito), who specialize in ceramic art projects, created a beautiful and detailed installation, Jellyfish, first exhibited in the Come Up to My Room show in 2007.
Tags: animals, ceramics, creature, installation art, interior decoration, jellyfish, natural history, nature, realism, sculptures, weird sculptures
The Savage Idiot: The Art of Richard Stipl
Richard Stipl’s obscene, gory, and irreverent sculptures and installations are lifelike to the extreme, and revolve around subverted religious imagery and images of corrupted dignity. He also creates mixed media works, such as Pentagram (below).
Tags: bizarre, blood, death/religion/sex, distorted bodies, flour-white face, gory, installation art, realism, red and white, religious imagery, richard stipl, sculptures, unnaturally colored flesh, weird sculptures
Bloodmilk – “The Messenger”
A new piece up in the ever-lovely Bloodmilk Jewelry’s Etsy shop (“Supernatural Jewels for Surrealist Darlings”). Titled The Messenger, this intriguing, gnarled, and beautiful necklace in bronze and rose gold plate features the delicately detailed shape of a crow’s claw, clutching an amethyst crystal. I find this Bloodmilk piece to be particularly alluring. Covet!
Tags: bloodmilk, jewelry, mystical, sinister arts and crafts, spooky animal-themed jewelry
Deathly Sweet: Macabre Ceramics by Maria Rubinke
Tags: babies, blood, ceramics, children, deer, dolls, innocence/menace, macabre, porcelain, red and white, sculptures, weird sculptures
Image of the Day
Alice by Nita CollinsSee my previous post on Nita Collins’ work here.
Tags: creepy, dolls, eerie, hauntingly beautiful, nita collins, sculptures
Dolls by Arume Emura
Arume Emura makes beautiful, creepy, expressive custom ball-jointed dolls, wraith-like, haunted-looking, conjoined, distorted, twisted, and surreal.
Tags: bjds, distorted bodies, dolls, hauntingly beautiful, masks, sculptures, twins/doppelgangers/doubles
Atoms and Thorns: Blown-Glass and Steel Sculptures by Graham Caldwell
via Colossal
Tags: abstract, conceptual, monsteresque, nature, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, weird sculptures
Sas + Colin: Colin Christian
Colin Christian makes larger-than-life sculptures of space-girls, aliens, and femme fatale creatures, in a style I dub cyber retro-erotic which takes influence from many different subcultures. Statuesque and cast in fiberglass and silicone, these cartoonishly exaggerated, indomitably perfect figures with piercing, gigantic, pellucid eyes, featuring campy titles such as Adventures on Planet Freud and The Callgirl of Cthulhu, are a sort of oddball mixture of his diverse inspirations, including “old sci-fi movies, pinup girls/supermodels, anime,” and “H. P. Lovecraft.” I find some of his work to be not to my taste, bordering on obscene or downright creepy (not to say disturbing), but these pieces below I do like. Also check out Sas’ art in the previous post.
Tags: alien beauty, bizarre, cartoony, cyber aesthetic, distorted bodies, doll-like, enlarged eyes, erotic, fetish, futuristic, life-sized, lolita-esque, monsteresque, pinup, pop surrealism, realism, retro, sci-fi, sculptures, sinister arts and crafts, space girls, strange beauty
