Featured Artists

The work of Japanese sculptor Sayaka Ganz is inspired by a genuine belief in the value of resources and a desire to create art out of waste. Ganz's sculptures are attempts to represent motion, and the harmony and beauty of community. Sayaka Ganz was brought up under the belief system of Japanese Shintoism. According to the philosophy of Shintoism, all organisms and objects have a soul. This concept...

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There is something inexplicably mystic and ominous about Japanese artist Odani Motohiko's series of mixed-media installations entitled 'Phantom Limb'. Odani is an artist who likes to take psychological fears and pain and give them physical form. His art is therefore disquieting. Each piece excites a sense of fear, pain or awe in the viewer and leaves a lasting impression. It's difficult to pin down...

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Dutch artist Diet Wiegman uses a combination of light and sculpture to project surprising shadow art on walls. It is surprising because the sculptures are really made of trash and have no recognizable form in themselves. You get to see Michelangelo's David, recreation of the surface of the earth or a silhouette of Michael Jackson only when the light falls on the structures. This hints at the surprising...

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By: J. Maria The most striking feature of the sculptures of Matteo Pugliese is their dynamism and vitality. The themes of the crusader and the protector recur again and again in his major works. There is a vacillation between the figurative and the surreal in the sculptor's style, though the sculptures are far from obscure. Instead, they are arresting and highly evocative even for the layman. The...

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By: J. Maria Kumi Yamashita uses the most unlikely objects to create her brand of stunning shadow art: thread, nails, bits and pieces of cloth, and even credit card impressions are the some of the basic materials in her magical and subtle portraits. She says she is inspired by how the ancient Greeks connected the stars in the night sky to create mythological figures. Similarly, Kumi can form images...

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By: J. Maria Do-Ho Suh is a Korean installation artist and sculptor. His most famous sculptures and installations are intricate and site specific. They explore the ways in which viewers occupy public space. In many of his floor sculptures, onlookers are invited to stroll on surfaces made of innumerable small human figures. "Some/One," is made of polished dog tags used in the military which swell...

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By: J. Maria Su Blackwell is an avid reader and her art is inspired greatly by the books she reads. She can make the written word come alive as her physical representations and figures tell their own stories. Fantasy and folklore are her favorite genres in literature. Blackwell likes illustrated books and fairy tales especially the ones authored by Hans Christian Andersen. She says fairy tales have...

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By: J. Maria Daniel Arsham's works combine architecture, art, and performance. He is unorthodox in the sense that he places shapes in the most unexpected places. Arsham's manipulation and themes make us think again about things that we presume we already know. He uses materials innovatively to alter the viewer's existing knowledge of them, thereby causing them to act in a novel and different way....

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