Friday, August 31, 2012

Wood Artists

Henrique Olivera
http://henriqueoliveira.com/
This guy does some incredible installations, creating different worlds with wood shards. Its pretty amazing what he does with installations. He also does regular sculptures too.

Bruno Walpoth:
http://www.walpoth.com/impressions.html
Creates extremely lifelike people out of wood and then paints over them to bring a strange looking fake feel to them. Its funny to see him make such realistic sculptures, but then paint over them to almost make them look less life-like and more like mannequins.

Cha Jong-Rye
http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2011/06/the-woodwork-of-cha-jong-rye/
Incredible work by using different length slats of wood- uses the layering method like a lot of wood artists do.

Andries Botha
http://andriesbotha.net/artwork/2006-2010/you-can-buy-my-heart-and-my-soul
Uses distressed wood to create life size wooden elephants... covers over a metal frames and then installs them in public areas.

Joseph Saccio
http://www.kehlerliddell.com/joseph-saccio/new-work/
Doesnt always use wood, but when he does, its with tree trunks and branches. I love the natural and woodsy look of his art because of his use of found wood instead of treated wood.

Henry Moore
http://www.henrymoore.com/
Famous sculptor and known for making his organic shaped and pierced pieces. Usually in the form of a reclining woman's' body or a mother and child. I love the shapes he makes in his pieces!

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