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 — Ingrid Siliakus

August 31, 2021 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 2 Comments

Ingrid Siliakus discovered Paper (Origamic) Architecture by seeing work of the originator of this art form, Masahiro Chatani.Paper Architecture is the art of creating an object out of a single piece of paper.The process begins with drawing, then cutting, then folding, until a large and detailed piece is amassed. The patterns are made from scratch and carefully cut, and they evolve through trial and error.Since there’s no margin for error, Siliakus sometimes makes twenty or thirty studies before deciding on a final design.To design a pattern from scratch, Siliakus needs the skills of an architect to create a two-dimensional design, which, with the patience and precision of a surgeon, becomes an ingenious three-dimensional wonder.Using only a sharp X-ACTO® knife, she carves away at both loose leaf paper and books, transforming them into scenes from MC Escher, historic churches, stately buildings, and architectural day dreams.“Working with paper forces me to be humble, since this medium has a character of its own that asks for cooperation,” Siliakus says.“I experience an ultimate satisfaction at the critic moment when the paper, with a silenced sigh, surrenders and becomes a blade-sharp crease. The sound of the paper, which guides this surrendering, to me is incomparable.”

More of Ingrid Siliakus‘ amazing work can be found at https://ingrid-siliakus.exto.org/.

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 — Morgana Wallace

August 2, 2020August 6, 2020 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 13 Comments

Morgana Wallace is a Victoria, British Columbia based artist.Her mixed media compositions are created through a fine treatment of collage working the paper to create multiple layers and various textures.Additionally, she will apply gauche to many of her works to add detail.Each piece brings together references of various mythologies with fantastical and dream like elements, creating engaging and complex works of art.Wallace often uses Japanese linen paper in her work because of her attraction to its texture, mixing it with thin card stock to create her characters’ flowing hair.Other materials used in her works include X-ACTO knives, water colors, gouache, and pencil crayons.To create depth and shadows she also uses foam board which adds to the painterly quality of her scenes.

More of Morgana Wallace‘s work can be found at http://www.madronagallery.com/artists/morgana-wallace.

Sunday Evening Art Gallery Blog — Yulia Brodskaya

October 1, 2017 ~ humoringthegoddess ~ 5 Comments

Yulia Brodskaya, an artist and illustrator born in Moscow, creates stunning works of art using the quilled paper technique.

She uses two simple materials, paper and glue, and a simple technique that involves the placement of carefully cut and bent strips of paper to make lush, vibrant, three-dimensional paper artworks.

Soon after discovering her passion and unique style, Brodskaya has swiftly earned an international reputation for her innovative paper illustrations.

According to the artist, “Paper always held a special fascination for me. I’ve tried many diferent methods and techniques of working with it, until I found the way that has turned out to be ‘the one’ for me: now I draw with paper instead of on it”.

Yulia’s art is time consuming and meticulous, yet the results are amazing.

You can find more of Yulia Brodskaya’s amazing quilling art can be found at https://www.artyulia.co.uk/.

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.”