Michael Mapes

Dutch Painted Specimen

2016

The pi fire of Jesus appears when looking straight in the middle in the light. Acrylic, STRAWS, Plexiglas. Sang Sik Hongs' work is all made by hand; each straw is hand placed, a co...

Mixed media, - Easy wall mount with French cleat. Signed and numbered. Plastic Jesus: Born : London (United Kingdom) Current Location: Los Angeles Huffington Post - Best street ...

Framed moving Lenticular x-ray photograph cones with COA Nick Veasey We live in a world obsessed with image. What we look like, what our clothes look like, houses, cars… I like to ...

The sprinkles are plastic cut and colored to look like candy sprinkles. Peppy uses a real basketball and deflates it and creates the sculpture to mix two of his favorite things, can...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from International Currency and gold foil, arranged in the shape of a target, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a white, wooden frame. About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper butterflies, suspended like museum specimens on individual entomology pins and clustered together to form icons, logos, and symbols against the backdrop of pristine canvases. Living in a world between the paper and digital ages, these works conjure feelings of nostalgia for the tactility of paper, created from vintage comic books, children’s books, currency, maps, and other obsolete ephemera. This stands in jarring contrast to the clean, pixelated designs that the butterflies form which exchange individual emotion for the universal immediacy of today’s contemporary visual language. Targets, hearts, ohms, and stars pop from the canvas in three-dimension - a fresh departure from the flat screens that are the norm today. With a background in vintage poster restoration, illustration, and printmaking, Charles Patrick combines his love of paper, art history, and design to create works that are both strikingly beautiful and poignantly thought-provoking. Charles lives and works between Cos Cob...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from Vintage Comic Book Pages, arranged in the shape of Wonder Woman, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a clear, plexiglass box. Available Sizes (Framed Size) Standard 48" x 36" About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from silver foil, arranged in the shape of the word DOPE, and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a clear, plexiglass box. Available Sizes (Framed Size) Standard 36" x 36" About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper...

This work is sourced directly from the artist. Fine art paper cut into the shape of butterflies and pinned to canvas in the shape of a circle with stainless steel entomology pins, painted with liquid...