Pigment Sculptures

Bronze with Gold Leaf From Boky Hackel-Ward’s Figurative Poetry Collection, this bronze was directly inspired by a poem entitled Mea Culpa taken from Paul Géraldy’s book Toi et Moi....

This piece presents a fly reimagined through digital fabrication. Designed and 3D-printed with precise attention to form, surface, and color, the object blurs the boundary between na...

Charles Birnbaum is a sculptor and a self-taught photographer. He graduated from Kansas City Art Institute where he studied ceramics and was one of a select group of the esteemed Ken...

Merging Styles and Cultures, Original Contemporary Mixed Media Installation, 2021 Digital images printed on transparency, hand-stitched Utili...

Archival pigment on wooden panel, edition of 12 Sumit Mehndiratta is an Indian artist born in 1986 who lives & works in New Delhi, India. He has pursued Master of Science in Intern...

LLC and mining operation being bought up at an alarming rate by international consortiums. The Rare Earth artworks grew out of my investigative research in 2009 while working on a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) application. That resulted in a body of work titled “Imagos”– photo/journalism images that capture a moment in history and immediately place the viewer at that moment in time. While navigating Landsat records of Earth's land surfaces from space I discovered large areas of disturbed landscapes. These were immense open pit mines at numerous locations world wide, many of which were Rare Earth mines or REEs. The mining and processing to separate the rare earth elements is an environmental conundrum. On one hand these elements are in extremely high demand and necessary for electric vehicles...

Quote from RT on style subject matter. From the model image the actual artwork evolves in the studio. What was once a model is now a reference. The act of making, testing material compatibility, critical evaluation, chance, gesture and the Illuminating accident often shift the final concept. Ine artwork has a lite of its own. The Rare Earth artworks grew out of my investigative research in 2009 while working on a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) application. That resulted in a body of work titled “Imagos”– photo/journalism images that capture a moment in history and immediately place the viewer at that moment in time. While navigating Landsat records of Earth's land surfaces from space I discovered large areas of disturbed landscapes. These were immense open pit mines at numerous locations world wide, many of which were Rare Earth mines or REEs. The mining and processing to separate the rare earth elements is an environmental conundrum. On one hand these elements are in extremely high demand and necessary for electric vehicles...

This piece presents a fly reimagined through digital fabrication. Designed and 3D-printed with precise attention to form, surface, and color, the object blurs the boundary between na...

They are built from a collection of found materials, fabrics, wallpapers, digital imagery, paint and precious metals. The digital Landsat image is positioned in juxtaposition to the ...

I began to incorporate these Landsat images into a new body of work titled "Rare Earth." Each Rare Earth artwork includes an archival image of a specific mine rendered in classic 3D (anaglyph) off-registration referencing mid-century exuberant optimism, geopolitical history, cultural signifiers, symbolic design patterns and phenomena The formal and elegant composition belies the actual relationship of the cause and effect of rare earth mining. --- The Rare Earth artworks grew out of my investigative research in 2009 while working on a Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (SARF) application. That resulted in a body of work titled “Imagos”– photo/journalism images that capture a moment in history and immediately place the viewer at that moment in time. While navigating Landsat records of Earth's land surfaces from space I discovered large areas of disturbed landscapes. These were immense open pit mines at numerous locations world wide, many of which were Rare Earth mines or REEs. The mining and processing to separate the rare earth elements is an environmental conundrum. On one hand these elements are in extremely high demand and necessary for electric vehicles...

While navigating Landsat records of Earth's land surfaces from space I discovered large areas of disturbed landscapes. These were immense open pit mines at numerous locations worldwide, many of which were Rare Earth mines or REEs. A digital image of a rare earth mine in Madagascar in combination with Landsat imagery, vintage damask wallpaper...

I begin each artwork with research. I navigate the Landsat archived images or mining operations world-wide. The collection or images is curated to those which share a similar visual ...

They are built from a collection of found materials, fabrics, wallpapers, digital imagery, paint and precious metals. The digital Landsat image is positioned in juxtaposition to the ...

The mining and processing to separate the rare earth elements is an environmental conundrum. On one hand these elements are in extremely high demand and necessary for electric vehicles...

Fons et origo, which in Latin means Source and Origin, includes 8 wall-sculptures. These circular shapes sprout long roots in delicate hand-cut formations. Some of the roots have tin...

The tactile and nature-infused Freedom series extends into the world with densely cut paper compositions. They embody the flow of self-knowledge, and explore the feminine, harmony an...

"Surgeon" is an original artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn made of hand-cut paper and layered to create a dimensional illusion. This piece measures 11"h x 9"w x 1.25"d and is shipped in th...

"Life" Framed digital composite. Archival pigment print on acrylic glass Size: 36" x 36" x 4" Edition Size: 10 From the artist's "Life" series. LIFE directly confronts the viewer...