Gold Leaf Figurative Sculptures

The artist Mariko grew up in Africa, where she discovered clay and sandstone at an early age. Studying at “Les Beaux-Arts” in France, Mariko was marked by the Cubist movement, in par...

Media: Plaster, Yves Klein Blue, Gold Leaf Signed and titled in pencil on base. Stamped with a wax seal.

Media: Plaster, Blue, Gold Leaf Signed and titled in pencil on base. Stamped with a wax seal.

Jacob Foran (US. 1983; MFA 2010) is a Seattle based ceramic artist. Born in Urbana, Illinois, Foran received a BFA from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the interdisciplinary Painting & Sculpture Program. He then obtained a second BFA in Ceramics from the Univ. of IL in 2008, where he was awarded Allie D. Hughston-Enochs Scholarship for the Outstanding Graduate in the School of Art+Design. Prior to transferring to the Univ. of Illinois School of Art, Foran received a full tuition merit scholarship from Parkland College where is obtained an AFA with an emphasis in Drawing & Painting. During these years, he developed working relationships with Cinema Gallery and Ann Nathan Gallery in Chicago. Jacob moved to Seattle in 2008 to study with artists Akio Takamori, Doug Jeck, and Jamie Walker in the University of Washington’s Ceramics Department (consistently ranked in the top five nationally according to the U.S. News and World Report). Foran received the Kottler & Noritake Scholarship from the UW and the national juried Kate Neal Kinley Fellowship (20k) in 2009. He was awarded First Prize in the national Marge Brown Kalodner Graduate Student Exhibit at the Clay Studio in Philadelphia, PA. Foran began his teaching career while a graduate student at the UW under guidance from Akio Takamori. Upon receiving his MFA he was also given the Teaching With Excellence Award from the School of Art+Art History+Design at the UW. Foran’s 2010 thesis exhibition, titled ‘Headspace,’ made reviews in major publications including Surfaces Magazine in Beijing, China, Designboom in Milan, Italy and Beautiful Decay in Los Angeles, CA. His work has also been featured in publications such as ArtSlant New York, Clay Times, Ceramics Monthly, and the Seattle Times. Museum exhibitions include ”Continuum of Excellence: Haystack Clay Selects,” at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, “Creating The New Northwest: Selections from the Collection of the Herb and Lucy Pruzan” at the Tacoma Art Museum, WA, the NCECA National Biennial at the Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, KY. Major gallery exhibitions include “Games of Antiquities” at Gasser & Grunnert in New York City, SOFA New York and SOFA Chicago with Ann Nathan Gallery, and most recently “Bodies and Beings” at Abmeyer+Wood Fine Art...

'Samantabhadra', Sanskrit for ‘Universal Worthy'. This recent work by Kenjiro Kitade emphasizes his awareness of the plight of elephants and their endangerment. Sitting on top is a b...

The artist Mariko grew up in Africa, where she discovered clay and sandstone at an early age. Studying at “Les Beaux-Arts” in France, Mariko was marked by the Cubist movement, in par...

Pedro Friedeberg Butterfly Chair. Gold leaf, Ink and acrylic over wood. Signed by the artist. Includes certificate of authenticity.

Inspired by amateur archaeologists such as Heinrich Schliemann who discovered Troy and by past elaborate hoaxes like that of the Piltdown Man, Joshua travels the world performing sta...

After da Vinci, Holbein, Claese, Cézanne, Klimpt, Van Cough, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, Hurst & Everyone Else That I Have Forgotten. Nicholas Crombach has ...

GIRL IN RED portrays a young Mongolian girl during the Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368) when all of China was under Mongolian rule. Her attire is a blend of Mongolian and Han Chinese eleme...

GIRL IN RED portrays a young Mongolian girl during the Yuan Dynasty (1279 - 1368) when all of China was under Mongolian rule. Her attire is a blend of Mongolian and Han Chinese eleme...

CELESTIAL portrays a very young boy in the style of a Gosho Doll. The inspiration for this piece came from the Gosho dolls made during the Edo Period of Jap...

TESTA @ - DISTOPICA POST INDUSTRIALE 2021 Ceramic, iron and gold leaf Measurement: CM 40x38x137 Weight: 8 kg These are figurative works, of classical or archaic inspiration, reint...

"As an artist I strive to create elegant sculptures that capture the true essence of the subject matter. Form, line and surface are used as the visual language. The figure is abstrac...

These are figurative works, of classical or archaic inspiration, reinterpreted using strictly contemporary signs and communicative languages, decontextualized and transformed into decorative elements: bar codes, qr codes, wi-fi icons, @, symbols of well-known advertising campaigns, numbers / formulas, which combine to form the vision of a dystopian archeology of the future which bring the individual closer to goods or objects, traces of mechanical or computer elements, which testify to a reality, ours, which has already happened, already lived. It is like an eye on the archeology of a distant future, or on a contemporary discovery that indicates an end already seen, towards which we can move. The metal structures are supports that enter the composition and the aesthetic vision and communication of the topics covered. The "cages" at the same time constrain but support, they root to the ground but soar upwards, in a liberating tension. ATLETA 2 - LA FORMA...

Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His wo...

Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His wo...

Dana Bloom's Measurement features a gilded human figure that challenges the viewers' perception of presence and absence, while exuding a dreamlike, timeless...

Based on her breathtaking golden faces chandelier named Cover-Discover, made for the Tel Aviv 2020 Biannale, Dana Bloom is now offering a limited edition of...

TESTA F - MI RICORDO DI TE NELLA GLORIA 2021 Ceramic, iron and gold leaf Measurement: CM CM 30x34x101 Weight: 6 kg These are figurative works, of classical or archaic inspiration...

Hanukiyah, Judaica, the menorah comes apart into spirals, made of iron covered with real gold, including cups for lighting, engraved by Yaacov Agam and numbered,

DAS ICH UND DAS ES (The Ego and the Id) Bronze with 24k Gold Leaf Dimensions: 9.4" x 5.1" x 5.1" (24 x 13 x 13 cm) Edition 1/6 Price: $10,000 This sculpture was inspired by Fre...

Bronze with Gold Leaf Based on Boky Hackel-Ward’s self-portrait, this sculpture is not only about what can happen to us when we get lost in a love that seems to be grander than gran...

The Spirit Phantom. Defined as “an individual's true inner self” referring to “the unconscious mind” or “the undiscovered self” in the analytic psychology of Carl Jung. It can also “...

Hand Built & Painted Vase Materials: Porcelain, Glaze, China Paint, Gold Leaf, Flocking Fired: Electric Kiln, Cone 6 Her work references exclusive and precious porcelain wares from ...

Louis Sclafani, while studying in 1976 at the Siena School of Art in Italy, became fascinated with glass on a trip to Venice and the Island of Murano. After a 3 year apprenticeship in Venice with renowned glass sculptor Loredano Rosin, Sclafani has been creating unique and technically advanced glass sculptures in his own studio in Rosendale, NY. Louis’s work is included in many private and public collections such as the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Art Museum, Tampa Museum of Art,Museum of American Glass, and the Prescott Collection in Seattle. Fish Monger...