Sunday Evening Art Gallery — Peter Callesen

August 10, 2025August 9, 2025 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 2 Comments

Peter Callesen (-1967) is a Danish visual artist and writer.Callesen began studies in architecture, then switched to art, attending the Goldsmiths College, London and The Art Academy of Jutland, Aarhus, Denmark.Callesen works with A4 white paper, transforming it into playful sculptures, people, animals or nature motifs.The artist crafts each of his sculptures to closely resemble their real-life counterparts and also utilizes the space below his creations to tell the story.His sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them.Many of his artworks play with depth, and one of the ways he does this is by cutting up a sheet of paper in order to make the ground beneath a sculpture look cracked or textured.More of Peter Callesen’s creative papercutting can be found at https://www.petercallesen.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery (midweek) — Hadieh Shafie

November 25, 2020November 25, 2020 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 4 Comments

Hadieh Shafie, a Tehran born artist based in Brooklyn and Baltimore, constructs intricate designs with low-relief paper sculpture.

Many of her works are comprise of tightly coiled strips of brightly colored paper bearing calligraphy, arranged in patterns.Shafie described them as “part sculpture, part drawing, part artist’s book.”In works comprised of paper scrolls, Shafie creates individual strips of paper that are marked with the word “eshghe,” both hand-written and printed in Farsi.

While the most direct translation of “eshghe” to English is “love,” its expressive power is “passion.” Shafie chose this word because it encompasses her longing and search for acceptance and understanding.

Writing by hand on strips of paper, Shafie repeats what is printed, filling in gaps to emphasize a particular, existing form.

As Shafie rolls the paper, the colors on the edges of the strips align, creating bands of alternating hue that stand along side one another, while at once, seeming to merge into new color formations which are often delightful surprises.

During the repetitive process of adding paper strips to create individual scrolls, text and symbols are hidden within these concentric rings of material as the scroll grows outward.

The results are mesmerizing, detailed, colorful representations of Shafie’s passions.

More of Hadieh Shafie’s inspirational and amazing art can be found at https://www.hadiehshafie.com/.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Jen Stark

January 15, 2017 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 7 Comments

Jen Stark (1983 -) is a contemporary artist whose majority of work involves creating paper sculptures.

Her artwork mimics intricate patterns and colors found in nature while exploring ideas of replication and infinity.

Stark takes construction or acid-free colored paper and intricately cuts each sheet with an X-acto knife, layering the paper into a topographical landscape of color and bold shapes.

Stark’s works have been inspired by many things around the natural world such as infinity, topographical maps, fractals, designs in nature, microscopic patterns, wormholes and sliced anatomy.

In her own words, “I love thinking about how enormous shapes out in the universe can have the same patterns as tiny microorganisms under a microscope.”