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Medium: Paint
Annie
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Clay
She had nowhere to hide
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, LED Light, Clay, Acrylic
Avion-baleine
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Jorge
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Wellesley, MA
Jorge,Alaskan Cedar, Found Materials, Acrylic Paint, Epoxy, 14 x 11 x 5 Inches, is one of an extensive series of intricately carved portrait heads in wood and paint by an artist who...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Karel Appel, Close Together, original hand painted wood sculpture
By Karel Appel
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original rotating hand-painted multiple wood sculpture created by Karel Appel in 1977. It was published by Editions Press of San Francisco. This piece is hand sign...
Category
1970s Modern Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Paint
Se peinturer dans le coin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Lamontagne has an interest for the conflicting relationship that exists between the end of the landscape and its contemplation, as well as for the so-called death of painting. The pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Smart Couple with Red Hat
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a plac...
Category
2010s Realist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
"Indonesian Mask with Dark Face and Gold Accents, " Painted Wood 19th Century
Located in Milwaukee, WI
This mask, created by an unknown Indonesian artist, features dark sin, gold and red eyes, teeth, and hair. It is approximately 7" tall by 5 1/2" wide.
Category
19th Century Folk Art Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Wood, Panel
Fetch
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In his recent works sculptor Nicholas Crombach uses the markers of tradition to critique social rituals. Through the employment of the mythology and the rich visual culture of the hunt, Crombach assembles works which revel in contradiction. He has created a series of unexpected juxtapositions that examine the cultural significance and the complex issues percolating around hunting and sporting traditions in the 21st century.
For this exhibition, Crombach riffs off the myth of Diana and Actaeon, which provides a poignant framework for his theme. In the original story, Actaeon, the hunter and grandson of King Cadmus, is in the forest with his dogs, when he spies Artemis (Diana) in her bath attended by her nymphs. Diana was the goddess of the hunt, but when the mortal Actaeon sees her, her nymphs try to cover her modesty. She splashes him with water, turning him from a mortal man into a stag, who flees into the forest only to be hunted down and killed by his own dogs. The hunter becomes the hunted.
Crombach’s Fetch (2018) refers to the mythology of Diana and Actaeon as he transforms the lofty and classical story of metamorphoses into a game of fetch in the local park, constructed on a grand scale. In Fetch (2018), Crombach creates a hybrid between the art historical imagery from paintings of hounds hunting stags with the flashy colours and synthetic materials of modern day dog chew toys. The sculpture is displayed alongside a variety of chew toys that act as an index for the sculptures interpretation, some transformed into porcelain that has been marked with the aristocratic hunting motifs found on antique English pottery. Here, the assembly of works create a conversation on the blurred boundaries between: histories of domestication, the working relationships we have with animals, contemporary issues of hunting as “play”, tradition and survival.
A second major new sculpture “End of the Chase” is a collapsed version of a Victorian period rocking horse housed in London’s V&A Museum Of Childhood. The sculpture responds to the 2014 hunting act that passed in Britain which in turn attempts to obliterate the tradition of hunting with hounds, most commonly associated with the fox hunt...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Polyurethane, Nylon, Resin
Country food diner à Verdun
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Place des Arts in Montreal is pleased to present Arnait by Karine Giboulo in its exhibition hall, a space for citizen reflection open to all. Central to her process is a friendship d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood, LED Light, Acrylic
Judge's Hammer Fiberglass , Emerging Indian Sculptor , Brown Color
By Tuhin Kundu
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Tuhin Kundu - Judge's Hammer - H : 17 x W : 21 x D : 5 inches
Wood and Acrylic Paint
About the Artist and his work :
Education :
Master of Fine Arts (MFA - MVA) from Rabindra Bhar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Fiberglass, Acrylic
EL AVE (SCULPTURE)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original palm leaf sculpture with acrylic. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be consi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Smart Couple Sitting
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a plac...
Category
2010s Realist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Jackie Shatz, Paintwoman, 2017, Stoneware, Acrylic Paint
By Jackie Shatz
Located in Darien, CT
Jackie Shatz' wall sculptures encapsulate various suspended states of being.
The images of swimming, floating and about-to gestures imply anticipation, hesitancy, anxiety or relief...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Stoneware
Beth
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Found materials, cedar, milk and acrylic paint.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Found Objects, Wood, Acrylic
Traveling Landscape (Roundtop Steamer)
Located in New York, NY
This sculptural installation incorporates running water and and interior light which activates the scene of a streambed along a grassy knoll. Kathleen Vance is an environmental artist who creates projects that connect people to local aspects of nature that are overlooked or under appreciated. With the series “Traveling Landscapes” Vance creates miniature landscapes with running streams and rivers inside vintage suitcases and trunks...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mixed Media, Resin, Watercolor
Budgies
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Polyurethane
'Cerberus’ Cousin Horserus'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Jackie Shatz, Refuge, 2017, Stoneware, Acrylic Paint
By Jackie Shatz
Located in Darien, CT
Jackie Shatz' wall sculptures encapsulate various suspended states of being.
The images of swimming, floating and about-to gestures imply anticipation, hesitancy, anxiety or relief...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Stoneware
Adolescent Unicorn T-Rex Skull with 'No Fear' Bedazzlement
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
The Aurora-Rhoman Institute of Archaeology and Cultural Relics explains-
"This is the most complete example of a Unicorn T-Rex Skull that has ever been discovered. During the Auroral...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Assyrian King - Resin and Metal Surrealist Bust Sculpture of a King
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari’s Assyrian King is a 25 x 14 inch mix media surrealist sculpture. It is made of metal, resin, automotive paint, and cardboard. It is a surrealist interpretation of a bust of an Assyrian King. The use of metal and wires to develop a tridimensional sculptural quality, as well as the expressionistic outcome of the imagery, has echoes in some contemporary African sculpture...
Category
Early 2000s Surrealist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Michael
By Joe Brubaker
Located in Mill Valley, CA
Found materials, cedar, and acrylic paint.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Paint, Wood, Found Objects
Rel 17.1
Located in Three Oaks, MI
Philip Shore uses his art to illustrate man's relationship to the environment and how the connection between nature and culture is becoming more fractured. Rel 17.1 consists of wood,...
Category
2010s American Modern Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Casein
Squirrel Skin
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Sparrows
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Polyurethane
Picador (Bullfighter) - Resin and Metal Orange Sculpture of a Bullfighter
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari’s “Picador” is a 37.5 x 16 inch mix media sculpture. It is made of metal, resin, automotive paint, and cardboard. It represents the lancer and a bull of the famous Sp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Lovers
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the discourse of contemporary art, the migrant occupies a liminal position only available in theory. Existing within the in-between space of Nation and State, culture and uncultur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Polyester, Acrylic
Chimera Bad
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Acrylic, oil, paper collage, car side mirror, branches, chimes, rag,
clock radio
(Instructions: Press “on” button on side of radio to turn on. Tune to suitable station)
A pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Mirror, Mixed Media, Oil, Rag Paper
After da Vinci, Holbein, Claese, Cézanne, Klimpt, Van Cough, Picasso, Dali...
Located in Montreal, Quebec
After da Vinci, Holbein, Claese, Cézanne, Klimpt, Van Cough, Picasso, Dali, Warhol, Hurst & Everyone Else That I Have Forgotten.
Nicholas Crombach has ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Freedom Wagon
Located in Buffalo, NY
James C. Litz is a self-taught artist who has a "primitive-naive" style of oil and acrylic paintings that features colorful and humorous characters and scenes. His paintings have a very child-like quality to them and you can see the artist's active imagination at work transforming everyday life into art. In 1994, the fine arts magazine Sunstorm, described him as having a "natural wit and style".
Permanent displays: The National and International Vietnam Veterans War Art Museum, Chicago, IL; the American Folk Art Museum, NYC; the President Bush Library, Houston, TX; Museé D'Art Naïf de l'lle De France; the International Folk Art Museum, La Jolla, CA; and the James Fennimore Coopers Museum, Cooperstown, NY.
Private Collections: Jackie Gleason (deceased); Roy Rogers (deceased); the Flamenco guitarist Carlos Montoya (deceased); opera singer Patrice Munsel, cellist Lynn Harrell, and Bill Cosby.
Category
1980s Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Acrylic
Momento
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plastic, Wood, Paint
'Dinosaur-Footed Buffalo'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Plastic
Figures and Sculptures, 3-D Wall Sculpture in Plexi Box
By M. Mitchell
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: M. Mitchell, American
Title: Figures and Sculptures
Medium: Pencil, Acrylic and Collage with 3 Resin Sculptures, signed
Size: 80 in. x 35 in. x 12 in. (203.2 cm x 88.9 cm ...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Pencil, Resin
The Arcs 2
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Patrick Beaulieu is a multidisciplinary artist. For the last ten years, his work has been built around the initiation of performative trajectories resulting in a corpus of visual art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Nature Morte
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach has a BFA from OCAD University with a major in Sculpture and Installation. In 2016-17 he participated in a year-long studio residency at The Florence Trust in Londo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint, Polyurethane
Butterfly Chair
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
Pedro Friedeberg Butterfly Chair.
Gold leaf, Ink and acrylic over wood.
Signed by the artist.
Includes certificate of authenticity.
Category
1960s Surrealist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Gold Leaf
Hook Ups and Lay Ups
By Cal Lane
Located in Montreal, Quebec
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Commander - Resin and Metal Surrealist Bust Sculpture with Silver Color
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari’s Commander is a 30 x 8.5 inch mix media surrealist sculpture. It is made of metal, resin, automotive paint, and cardboard. It is a surrealist interpretation of a bust of a commander. The use of metal and wires to develop a tridimensional sculptural quality, as well as the expressionistic outcome of the imagery, has echoes in some contemporary African sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
'Dinonaut'
By Joshua Goode
Located in New York, NY
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...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic
Girl holding a Mirror, Painted Bronze Sculpture by Richard Shiloh
By Richard Shiloh
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Richard Shiloh, Polish/Israeli (1949 - )
Title: Girl holding a Mirror
Year: Circa 1975
Medium: Bronze with Painted patina, signature inscribed
...
Category
1970s Realist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Pain killer (vert)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 2015, I made a series of sculptures called "HYPERland" illustrating the utopia promised by the "liberal democracy" and the dystopia that is rather created by the market and financ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Acrylic, Polymer
Spooning
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the discourse of contemporary art, the migrant occupies a liminal position only available in theory. Existing within the in-between space of Nation and State, culture and uncultur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Polyester, Acrylic
Inanimate Beings
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach is currently an artist in residence at The Florence Trust in London, UK. Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Wood, Acrylic
Bucranium - Resin and Metal Surrealist Sculpture of a Skull of an Ox
Located in New York, NY
Angelo Canevari’s Bucranium is a 34 x 19 inch mix media surrealist sculpture. It is made of metal, resin, green automotive paint, and cardboard. It is a surrealist interpretation of the carved decoration, representing ox-skulls, commonly used in Classical architecture for the friezes of Doric temples. The same motif was also later used on Renaissance, Baroque and Neoclassical buildings. Canevari's contemporary interpretation is evident in the medium he chose to shape this artwork and yet it maintains the same commanding and monumental presence of the classical monuments that have inspired it.. The use of metal and wires to develop a tridimensional sculptural quality, as well as the expressionistic outcome of the imagery, has echoes in some contemporary African sculpture...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Pain killer (bleu)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 2015, I made a series of sculptures called "HYPERland" illustrating the utopia promised by the "liberal democracy" and the dystopia that is rather created by the market and financ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Acrylic, Polymer
Family sleeping with Pampers
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In the discourse of contemporary art, the migrant occupies a liminal position only available in theory. Existing within the in-between space of Nation and State, culture and uncultur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Lost in reflexion
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Terence Sharpe
There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Fiberglass, Foam, Wood, LED Light, Acrylic
Pain killer (jaune)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 2015, I made a series of sculptures called "HYPERland" illustrating the utopia promised by the "liberal democracy" and the dystopia that is rather created by the market and financ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Glass, Acrylic, Polymer
Indispensable Losses 3
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Night Shift
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Terence Sharpe
There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Glass, Wood, LED Light, Acrylic
Kathleen Vance, Newtown Creek Waterway, 2017, Found Objects, Acrylic Paint, Wood
Located in Darien, CT
Kathleen Vance explores environmental issues such as water conservation and protection through positive stewardship of the land. She looks to convey an appreciation of nature and tra...
Category
2010s Conceptual Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wire
Predator, Prey & Victim
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach is currently an artist in residence at The Florence Trust in London, UK. Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Resin, Animal Skin
Pain Killer (rouge)
Located in Montreal, Quebec
In 2015, I made a series of sculptures called "HYPERland" illustrating the utopia promised by the "liberal democracy" and the dystopia that is rather created by the market and financ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Glass, Acrylic, Polymer
Unnamed
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Nicholas Crombach graduated from OCAD University’s Sculpture and Installation program in 2012. He has been awarded the Hayden Davies Memorial Award, Samuel Lazar Kagan Award, Abraham...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Resin, Paint
Night shift II
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Terence Sharpe
There is a moment in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) when the character Hari commits suicide by drinking liquid oxygen. As she is not actually a human, but an artificial hybrid product of the mysterious planet and the protagonists’ memories, she heals rapidly and is alive again minutes later. Her choice to take her own life is poignant, seemingly the action of a being becoming aware of its hopeless infinitude. Her realization that while the men will die on the space station or elsewhere, her existence is that of immortality, a deeply alienating notion that causes her to seek her own destruction. The Montreal artist Guillaume Lachapelle has one work that prompts a sense of eternal alienation that echoes Hari’s tragedy. The work greets the viewer with a empty doorway flanked by clinically white bookshelves...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Nylon, Glass, LED Light, Acrylic
Canevas
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Text by Nancy Webb
It’s Saturday night and Karine Payette is in her studio. We meander into a conversation about the dog she used to have and her soft spot for German shepherds, an intensely obedient and loyal breed in a deceivingly wolf-like package. Payette’s most recent series of photographs, sculptures and video work seem to speak directly to this preoccupation with the multifaceted nature of human-animal relationships—the dialogues of control, intimacy, violence and domestication that subtly take place on an interspecies level.
Her workspace is part laboratory, part prop closet—a bowl of fur sits not far from her computer. Somehow in this bright, open, chemical-clean scented room, Payette conjures wildness. We are taken to a strange place, the borderlands of interspecies mingling. At one extreme of the animal-human dynamics scale is the stalwart compliance of a professionally trained German shepherd who responds to commands with robotic precision. Here, power is comfortably held by an off-screen voice, animality pacified by a set of linguistic prompts. At the other end of the scale is a sculpture of a human figure clad in red, sharing a languorous kiss with a wolf. The story of Little Red Riding Hood is immediately called to mind, except that here our hooded protagonist seems to have bailed on grandmother’s orders, instead opting for a forest floor make-out with her canine stalker. This taboo mise-en-scène is a brazen inquiry into the boundaries we maintain with our animal counterparts. Its scale and three-dimensionality contribute to a feeling of immersion that the artist has been courting with her work for the past several years. It feels as though you’ve just walked in on something: you are implicated and your discomfort is like an invisible mist that coats these inanimate beings.
Elsewhere in Payette’s suite of anthropomorphic works, the demarcation between species grows even fainter. A photographic series depicts the slow encroachment of fur, scales and feathers on human skin—a striking process of contamination facilitated by touch. The fusion of flesh, charcoal cat fur and a pale silky dress...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Silicone
Killer Whale
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Karine Giboulo creates colourful miniature worlds in which depictions of reality and flights of fantasy mingle. Her intricate sculpted scenes use pathos and humour to comment on the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood, Clay, Plexiglass, Acrylic
Shiro Koi AP - white, rustic, baroque, face, figurative, bronze wall sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Using small hand carved wooden escutcheons created by rural furniture makers early in the last century as the basis for the molds, Dunning has created the wax elements and sculpted a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paint Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
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