Dale Chihuly (via Dale Chihuly’s ‘Glass House’ shines in Seattle | Reuters)
Pioneering glass artist Dale Chihuly, whose work has been shown in over 200 museums worldwide, will be honored in his home city Seattle when “Chihuly Garden and Glass” opens on Monday, offering the most comprehensive collection of his work ever.
Spanning one and a half acres in the shadow of the Space Needle, the show includes an exhibition hall, a garden and a “Glass House” structure by Chihuly, inspired by his two favorite buildings, Paris’ Sainte-Chapelle and London’s Crystal Palace.
“It’s really the most important project I’ve ever done,” Chihuly told Reuters about the exhibition he designed.
Source: reuters.com
Scotch Tape Sculptures 2012
This contest proves that you can create art with materials sitting right on your desk! Using 15 rolls of Scotch packaging tape, Jake Longenecker nabbed first place in The Scotch Off the Roll Tape Sculpture Contest, sponsored by 3M. Called “Free Fallin,” it depicts a WWII era paratrooper in mid drop. Longenecker beat out more than 100 entries to take home the $5,000 cash prize. Finalists also included Abigail Colety from Austin, Texas who created “Game Night,” Gavin Mann who depicted “The Creation of Adam” and Michelle Noe who brought to life a “Tight Rope Tape Walker.”
This year, one of our favorite and most “shocking” artists, Mark Jenkins, helped judge the entries.
For more creative inspiration, make sure to check out last year’s amazing entries and winners here. Fun!
Pour Paintings by Holton Rower
Head on over to The Hole in New York right now (until May 26) and you’ll be able to experience an amazingly colorful exhibit by Holton Rower. The first New York solo exhibition for the artist, “Pour Paintings” is just that, they’re paintings created by carefully pouring paint over plywood. The result is incredible color combinations that are stunningly psychedelic.
Snow Queen
Pavel Guzenko’s oil paintings of eyes; the way he has captured the glare in the pupil and iris is really beautifully done.
Katie Sokoler shot the peacocks on the campus of The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights, where three of these remarkable creatures roam the grounds—which are open to the public!
The Dream of a Lacquer Box
By Kimiko Hahn
I wish I knew the contents and I wish the contents
Japanese —
like hairpins made of tortoiseshell or bone
though my braid was lopped off long ago,
like an overpowering pine incense
or a talisman from a Kyoto shrine,
like a Hello Kitty diary-lock-and-key,
Hello Kitty stickers or candies,
a netsuke in the shape of an octopus,
ticket stubs from the Bunraku —
or am I wishing for Mother? searching for Sister?
just hoping to give something Japanese to my daughters?
then again, people can read anything into dreams
and I do as well. I wish I possessed
my mother’s black lacquer box
though in my dream it was red,
though I wish my heart were content.
Wooden House, by Poland-based artist Dariusz Klimczak, is a wonderfully whimsical photo manipulation that gives new meaning to the word “treehouse.” Love how the red hatted person is just casually walking toward the tree, looking as if he’s just coming home after another long, hard day at work.
Photo: Kristina Pochepen
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