Isabelle Scheltjens

Valentino Girl

2022

Isabelle Scheltjens’ elegant glass portraits celebrate materiality. Growing up with a love of pop art, Scheltjens infused her passion with natural talent and years of education at SI...

This "Infinity Vault" is spectacular in person! It is mounted on the wall to appear as if the diamonds and gold bars go into infinity. It can also be recessed into the wall to be f...

Joseph's statement pieces both literally and figuratively reflect their audience - drawing attention to phrases, words, or expressions that challenge the viewer to look beneath the s...

Signed and numbered limited edition number 1 of 8. Idan Zareski is a French-Israeli artist born in Haifa, Israel. Life would take him through many countries, bearing witness to dive...

Christopher Schulz was born in California in 1974. He is recognized for his sculptures' minimalistic, streamlined quality, represented in diverse subjects including sharks, elephants, riding toys...

Artist: Idan Zareski, French-Israeli Title: The Whistler XS Edition of 200 Media: Bronze Dimensions: 12.5 x 5.5 x 8 in. / 32 x 14 x 20 cm - - About the a...

Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Clas...

Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technica...

Intricate, ethereal and highly textured, the abstract compositions of Japanese mosaic artist Toyoharu Kii reflect a sophisticated approach to the technical art of mosaic making. Classically trained in Florence, Italy, Kii creates his modern mosaics using traditional techniques and materials, including hand-cut Italian marble and Venetian smalti glass. Eschewing the figural in favor of the abstract, his mosaics rely on contrasts of pattern and form to convey complex themes and achieve visual harmony. Toyoharu Kii’s latest body of work “Geophytes” continues themes of rebirth and renewal. A reference to plants that regrow from hidden elements beneath the earth’s surface, the series celebrates the resilience of the natural world. Each mosaic is imagined as a landscape that documents a history of environmental damage due to human activity, and the subsequent return of nature as a restorative force. Through the juxtaposition of patterns and the interplay of order and disorder, Kii creates man-made “images of destruction” and finds hope in the future by “reconstructing nature.” In this mosaic entitled "Ghost (Big Wings)," Kii takes a more representational approach to his storytelling, creating figurative drawings out of thin lines of tesserae. The mosaic belongs to his “Ghost” triptych, wherein Kii uses “wings” to represent the presence of a heavenly being, the ghosts of past spirits or the presence of an angel or guardian. In “Ghost (Big Wings),” Kii mourns the extinction of many creatures due to environmental change and imagines their lonely spirits wandering the earth. Enveloping their silhouettes is “a bird with big wings,” writes Kii, depicted here within a dense mosaic of abstract patterns, a symbol for nature’s healing power. “The bird consoles...

Artist Commentary: Worked with a model for the initial photoshoot. While perusing through the images I had just taken I selected this particular one and said to the model "you look v...

Artist Commentary: Worked with a model for initial photographic images. Then used photograph to draw a simplified version of the image which I used to fabricate the mosaic. Over 2000...

Artist Commentary: This model stated during the photo shoot that ever since elementary school she has felt a strong connection to the earth and that as an adult has embraced the iden...