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Concorde Cap Shelter Serra 5.5”x7”x9” Electroplated Copper 2017 The Concorde Cap is one of an ongoing series of copper electroplated hats. Ranging from Superman to Nascar, the artist chooses hats from all walks of life before distilling through the electroplating process, transforming the once functional hat into an object of contemplation and beauty. Shelter Serra’s sculptures and drawings explore notions of mass consumption and cultural identity. He juxtaposes objects that are both mundane and immediately recognizable: a 40 ounce bottle of malt liquor cast in plaster, a Best Buy cap plated in copper, and a designer handbag cast in resin, to name a few. Casting and plating these objects in unlikely materials—resin, plaster, platinum silicone, and copper—Serra strips them of their intended functionality, thereby highlighting their underlying cultural symbolism and transforming branded products into objects of aesthetic contemplation. “Refining an aesthetic and making beautiful objects, whether that be a dress, bag, or sculpture," says Serra, "is a celebration of pure creativity and personal vision.” His Fake Gun...

This piece titled "Diptych: Egg Bag & Insect Net" is an original artwork made from beeswax, quail eggs, mica, plastic, copper, linen, and silverpoint, mounted ...

Circlespiral, sculpture, by Jeffrey Maron, metal, sculpture, circle, spiral PUBLIC COLLECTIONS U.S. Embassy, Tokyo,Japan Mountain Bell Corporate Offices, Denver Colorado Smithsonian Institution Philadelphia Health Care Plan, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Hakone Museum, Hakone, Japan Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri Modern Museum of Art, Mexico City, Mexico Sumitomo Corp. , Kobe, Japan Westchester Community College, Purchase, New York Merrill Lynch...

The Craftsmen Series: Rake Soldered and fabricated solid copper US pennies and brass accents, hollow metal construction. The Craftsmen Series contains working man's tools recreated in copper pennies that are entirely hollow and true to size. The ghostlike representations of the original tools question the value of labor and time inherent in the object. Sculptures from this series have been acquired by the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery in Washington DC...

Pekka Paikkari (Finnish, b. 1960) is a ceramic artist living and working in Helsinki, Finland where he has been a member of the Arabia Art Department So...

This work of art was done with 14,570 delicately placed pins upon hanging ropes. The concentration of pins is what makes the tiger appear. They are all firmly inserted with resin whi...