Time for Tools

Oh, the beautiful Midwest weather these days!  Spring has us out in the garden already, and it is tool time. Rake:  Reverse for Rebirth, designed by Ahnjoonggeun With many design awards and several patents to his name, Ahnjoonggeum now brings art to the zen task of...

Burnished Metal Takes Flight

Sculptor Mark Davis began his work with sterling silver, gold plating and brass, fabricating chosen metals into jewelry. His current work takes those same base materials to a different level, experimenting with larger sculptural forms and mobiles. BRILLIANT NOIR,...

Hey, That’s Swell!

The ninth annual Swell Sculpture Festival, held in Queensland, Australia, has just wrapped up.  Sorry I just found this news now – I’m sure if I could have notified you before September 9, you might have flown out there for it. They did feature some...

Putting it All Together

Assemblage is the art of putting found things together into a new, dimensional sculpture.  The amazing thing about the work of artist Edouard Martinet is that he does not use solder to hold the found items in place.  How does he do it? Edouard Martinet, photo by ian...

Combining Fabric with Steel

It is an extreme contrast in media, but it really works for me.  Trisha Hassler combines her talent in working with fabric, along with metal fabrication, to turn out some interesting art pieces. Trish Hassler, from the Dwellings series Hassler is a lifetime quilter,...