Cara Van Blog-enburg: 5 artists

"Popcorn Youth"
paper plat

Tara Donovan works with everyday artificial products such as; paper plates, Styrofoam cups, and drinking straws that makes outsized sculptures. In reading about her I found the term biomorphic is used to describe her work because she uses organic shapes that look like they morph as you view her work. Donovan stated that she chooses a material before deciding what exactly she is going to create because she enjoys the idea of having endless options. Her work is extremely beautiful and shows that there is a lot of tedious work involved.

pencils

toothpicks

styrofoam cups

plastic cups

Dominic Wilcox is said to be an artist, designer and inventor. Wilcox works with everyday materials, environments, human interactions, buildings and basically anything and everything; nothing is off limits. His work is meant to make the viewer think and see a new outlook on certain topics that are address in his work with the materials that are being used. Wilcox work is very interesting and creative but with an underlying intention of making the viewer look deeper.

army men

"War Bowl"

"Sneaker Cave"

"Xylophone Bin"

"Square Egg"

Brian Jungen is a Canadian artist who works under the realm of “found art”, like Marcel Duchamp. He is best known for working with sports equipment, especially Nike shoes. However, instead of leaving these objects “as-is” he changes their form to give them a different meaning from that of their original purpose. I like that he works with sports gear because it is something I have never seen before. I particular like the masks that he creates out of tennis shoes. Jungen art makes a statement and also expresses various cultural traditions at the same time.

"Prototype for New Understanding
No. 10"

"Blanket No. 9"
made of professional
jersey

"Carapace"
made of rubbish bins

golf bags

cultural masks made of
Nike shoes and human hair

Rachel Whiteread is a sculptor and is known to form her casts from something that many of us don’t even pay attention to; negative space. These casts are done in domestic objects such as underneath furniture or even filling entire rooms. She is very well known for doing a concrete cast of a Victorian house, titled “House” in 1993. Something that I thought was interesting that she said about her casts was "the residue of years and years of use". Her work is so amazing and something that I have never seen before, it definitely makes me notice negative space in a different way.

"Untitled (Library)"

House

Space beneath stairs

Space beneath chairs

"Ghost"

Willie Cole is known as a conceptual, modern-day sculptor, and visual artist. He works with everyday day domestic objects and transforms them by bringing them together in an art installation that makes a statement. Sometimes this statement is made through his use of a single object in a repetitive manner, which gives the object a whole new meaning. Cole’s work is beautifully crafted and is gives a whole new outlook on domestic objects.