Artist Statement: “Traveling Landscapes” by Kathleen Vance With the series entitled “Traveling Landscapes”, vignettes of nature are encapsulated within steamer trunks and train cases aged through travel. Displaced elements indicative of natural landscapes are presented in partially opened cases, as to not fully expose the delicateness of what is contained within. Streams and rivers activate the…
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Miniature Wooden Street Art Installed by Joe Iurato
Joe Iurato is a multidisciplinary artist whose works are built on a foundation of stencils and aerosol. While Iurato’s murals have adorned neighborhoods along the east coast United States for years, he’s more recently become noted for the unique placement and photography of miniature painted wood cutouts in public spaces. Utilizing the outdoor environment to…
Miniature Sculptures by Song Kang
VERNACULAR by Song Kang The term ‘vernacular’ tends to correlate with all things commonplace; however, in the architectural sense, the ‘vernacular’ exemplifies human’s abilities to adapt to their surroundings and build with their environments. This series explores the symbiotic relationship between the vernacular home and the environmental context in which it exist. “Sand and Stone”, “Wood”,…
Jon Almeda’s Miniature Hand Thrown Pottery(2)
JON ALMEDA’S MINIATURE HAND THROWN POTTERY Pottery is the most enduring of the human art work and there is no artist as skillful in the use of bare hands as a potter. Soft clay simply molds into icons under the soft touch of a potter. Washington based artist, Jon Almeda takes utter perfection to a…
The Art of Quintessence by Julie Chua
THE ART OF QUINTESSENCE IS AN ONGOING PERSONAL PROJECT BY JULIE CHUA (practice paintings) featuring coin-sized (24mm) miniature watercolour paintings of random and mundane things that correlate with self-experienced truths and shared universal wisdom of a refined essence. I have started making the project as a means to develop my watercolour painting skills and later became a…
Elephant Carved From a Pencil Lead by Cindy D. Chinn
ELEPHANT ART CARVED FROM A PENCIL LEAD BY CINDY D. CHINN. This is my most recent commission piece. I was asked to carve an elephant from a pencil lead, but as usual… I got a little carried away! This elephant art piece was actually carved from a few pencils and then assembled onto the pencil…