Category: Installation Artist

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Crystal Wagner

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Crystal Wagner (-1982)  is a printmaker, a drawer and an installation artist from Baltimore, Maryland.Wagner attended Keystone College, a private liberal arts school in La Plume Pennsylvania where she earned her Associate Degree in Fine Art, receiving awards for both her prose/fiction writing and also her work as an artist. In May 2008, Crystal completed her MFA at The University of Tennessee.The artist is known for hand-cut wall-mounted paper forms and immersive, site-specific sculptures.Swirling maelstroms of color and texture are formed from quotidian objects: Plastic dollar store items like cheap tablecloths and straws.Wagner weaves them onto a wire armature where they take on a life of their ownThey evolve from their own mundane beginnings to mimic the natural world as they creep, stretch and grow in, around and through their environments.

She utilizes such humble materials as plastic tablecloths stretched over chicken wire to uncanny effect.Her intricately constructed biomorphic works conjure a feeling of wonder from everyday materials and suggest new possibilities for mass-produced, disposable materials.

More of Crystal Wagner‘s wonderful sculptures can be found at https://www.artsy.net/artist/crystal-wagner and https://www.instagram.com/artistcrystalwagner/?hl=en.

 

 

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ran Hwang

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Ran Hwang is a sculptural artist primarily known for her mixed-media work with buttons, beads, pins, and thread.

Born in the Republic of Korea in 1960, Hwang currently lives and works in both Seoul and New York City. 

 

Hwang creates large iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of a transient moment.

The artist creates iconic figures that embody her preoccupation with the nature of cyclical life, non-visibility and the beauty of transient glamor.

Her installation works often crosses three-dimensional boundaries.Although her work often references classical Asian motifs, Hwang reinterprets these images through her medium, redefining her cultural heritage.

Hwang is best known for her large-scale wall installations in which buttons, beads, pins, and threads on wood panels form images of falling blossoms, vases, Buddhas, and birds.

To construct much of her work, Hwang creates paper buttons by hand, hammering each one approximately twenty-five times until it is secure.

Her process requires the utmost concentration and discipline, recalling the meditative state practiced by Zen masters.

More of Ran Hwang‘s amazing work can be found at https://www.ranhwang.com/ and http://www.leilahellergallery.com/artists/ran-hwang.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rune Guneriussen

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Rune Guneriussen’s conceptual work, somewhere between installation and photography, features site-specific installations throughout his native Norway.Born in 1977, Guneriussen studied at Eiker College and received a BA in photography at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design.Using an artistic process that concerns the object, locale, and time of installation, Guneriussen takes photographs using a large-format view camera that documents the existence of the installation itself.The resulting photographs illustrate attentive handling and a recognition of light to form a new idea of reality.Mixing rural landscapes with everyday objects such as desk lamps or books, Guneriussen’s analogous application of material and space correlates to humans’ connection to the planet.As an artist, Guneriussen believes that art itself should be questioning and bewildering as opposed to patronizing and restricting.As opposed to the current fashion, he does not want to dictate a way to the understanding of his art, but rather indicate a path to understanding a story.

More of Rune Guneriussen’s installation work can be found at http://www.runeguneriussen.no/ and https://www.scandinaviastandard.com/artist-spotlight-norwegian-conceptual-artist-rune-guneriussen/.

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Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Ernesto Neto

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Ernesto Neto is a Brazilian Conceptual artist whose installations offer a chance for the viewer to touch, see, smell, and feel his artworks for a truly sensory experience.Neto was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil from a generation of Brazilian artists that witnessed the more liberal approach to art that arose during the 1950s and 1960s.Neto has produced an influential body of work that explores constructions of social space and the natural world by inviting physical interaction and sensory experience.Most of his sculptural environments are site-specific crocheted nets and cocoons, sewed with nylon, and often carrying surprising substances.Aromatic spices, candies, sand and colorful Styrofoam balls are stuffed into these nets creating pendulous sculptures that fall like raindrops from the ceiling.Other times Neto creates human-scale spaces that appear almost surreal.He works with transparent materials and unusual textures, attending to both the inside and outside of the sculptures.The resulting shelters or vessels, unlike conventional architecture, are meant to be experienced as nature: his materials beg to be touched.More of Ernesto Neto‘s amazing work can be found at http://www.artnet.com/artists/ernesto-neto/.

 

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Alex Chinneck

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British sculptor Alex Chinneck creates temporary surreal architectural sculptures that show social awareness, humor, and an interest in regeneration.

The artist is a Chelsea College of Art alumnus and is a member of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.His work animates the surrounding urban landscape in an ingenious combination of engineering, architecture, and art.Chinneck’s pieces merge sculpture with architecture to create masterpieces that play with both our visual and social expectations.“I like to make work that blends in with its surroundings, but which at the same time stands out,” Chinneck says. “Illusions are visually engaging, mesmerizing and accessible – everyone can understand and enjoy them.”More of Alex Chinneck‘s sculptural creations can be found at https://www.alexchinneck.com/.

 

Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Rebecca Louise Law

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Rebecca Louise Law is a London-based installation artist, best known for her breathtaking interactive large-scale installations consisting of thousands of suspended flowers. 

Rebecca is widely recognized for colossal floral artworks sculpted using her signature copper wire.She works with fresh or dry flora and allows the work to change naturally.Large scale artworks are site-specific, designed with the space, patron and local culture in mind.Smaller scale sculptures are encased in Victorian-style vitrines that
serve to preserve the contents – flowers, foliage and sometimes
insects – in a moment of time.Law has been working with natural materials and flowers for over 17 years. Her work is underpinned by her love of exploring the interlinked relationship between humanity and nature.Law is passionate about natural change and preservation, allowing her work to evolve as nature takes its course and offering an alternative concept of beauty.More of Rebecca Louise Law‘s amazing work can be found at https://www.rebeccalouiselaw.com/.