Jennifer Small

Higher Brass

2014

The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

The first decades of the 21st century shaped the period of reconfiguration of the "world order", according to Pedro Pablo Gómez1, into three options: "rewesternalization, dewesternal...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous ...

From the beginning, Jean-Robert Drouillard has produced life-size statues sculpted from solid wood. Carrying the ills and anxieties of the century, his hybrid personages are frequent...

From the beginning, Jean-Robert Drouillard has produced life-size statues sculpted from solid wood. Carrying the ills and anxieties of the century, his hybrid personages are frequently inspired by the imagery of popular art. With Mon coeur...

Laughter, discomfort, perplexity: these are all plausible reactions to the work by sculptor Cal Lane. The artist’s most recent body of work is an affective assemblage of incongruous parts that, taken together, violate our mental patterns and expectations. Charged with contradictions, metaphor, sexual undertones, and unsettling associations, Lane’s unlikely combinations use absurdity as a way of pointing to western society’s normalized habits and conventions, often with an emphasis on gender and sexuality. For the exhibition Try Me, Lane installs a basketball court in the gallery. The two basketball hoops on opposing walls are embellished with silver-coated frames and lustrous mirrors, which serve as decorative backboards. In place of nets, women’s black lace underwear delicately hang from hoops. A decorative rug stenciled with court lines performs as the court floor. It is a mise-en-scène set in motion by viewer’s reconciliation of the individual parts to the whole, and to their original function. Panties regard themselves in the mirror or perhaps measure up their opponent, which, not without irony, is the mirror image of itself. Themes of gender and sexuality are performed and imagined in the upward voyeuristic gaze of the viewer and the expected swoosh of the ball into the net. This is further elaborated by phallic impressions formed by court lines and their likeness to a work of modernist abstraction—a movement wrought by notions of masculinity. The decorative rug’s connection to femininity and domesticity juxtaposes the rigid geometry. Lane further explores the historical gendering of technology, industry, and war in her series of wallpaper drawings, which depict war submarines on cloud patterned wallpaper. The innocence of the submarine in popular culture and its reality as a phallic war object...

This Green neon Buddha statue, is 2 layers of laser cut Plexiglas joined together by brass industrial elements. A unique Buddha sculpture, designed as an everyday reminder to live a compassionate and mindful life. Influenced by both urban industrial reality, and by Buddhist philosophy, this sculpture will add a touch of style and spirituality to any room, office, studio, spa or space. The X-Large meditating Buddha statue...

This Green neon Buddha statue, is 2 layers of laser cut Plexiglas joined together by brass industrial elements. A unique Buddha sculpture, de...

Vernika Singh Gymnasts, Sculpture, Aluminium, 16 x 28 x 36 inches Interested in human figures and the movements which are encountered by the body. It is the most beautiful sight to ...

This art piece was carefully made, traced, cut and polished till reflections started to appear. The stainless steel, imported from Italy was carefully cut for avoiding burned edges. ...

‘I have created characters since I was a child. I studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux Arts de Paris, but now I have a preference for sculpture. I do not have an intellectual proc...

Pintu Sikder - Nandi Brass & Wood, H 5.5 x W 11 x D 5.5 inches Very few seeds are germinated on the roadside. Fewer of them grow into trees defying all odds. Pintu Sikder is one suc...