Skills Workshop. Su Blackwell. Ryuji nakamura. Calvin Nicholls. Jeff Nishinaka. Jeff Nishinaka. Los Angeles native Jeff Nishinaka is a relief paper sculpture artist who has a stunning array of work that needless to say can blow anyone away.
His portfolio spans a wide range including Bloomingdale’s, Sprint, Visa, Penn State University, Paramount Pictures and Coca Cola. Over the years he has found various techniques in how to manipulate and bend paper to make these magnificent masterpieces. I’m really happy to have him featured on our site since he is one of my favorite paper artists! Also be sure to check out the videos of the artist in action! Tell us a little about your background and what path led you to what youre doing now? What have been some favorite recent projects/clients/collaborations?
How would you describe your creative process, start to finish? How long did it take for you to master your technique? Jeff Nishinaka - Le papier, tout un art ! Quand on parle de Paper Art, on pense souvent à l’origami ou aux Paper Toys.
Avec Jeff Nishinaka, nous allons encore plus loin ! En effet, avec plus de 30 ans d’expérience, Jeff Nishinaka est le précurseur de ce que nous pouvons appeler aujourd’hui : de la sculpture sur papier. Découvert dans le Be Street de ce trimestre, j’ai tout de suite été subjugué par le talent et l’originalité de cet artiste passé maître du Paper Art. Paper sculpture. Jeff Nishinaka. Jeff Nishinaka. New York by Eiko Ojala. Coup de cœur pour la dernière réalisation de l’artiste estonien Eiko Ojala pour le compte du Affina Hotel Manhattan Lobby.
Déjà connu pour ses découpages de précision, il revient ici avec une superbe représentation de New York, une oeuvre à la frontière entre l’art digitale et le fait main. Susy Oliveira. Susy Oliveira. Susy Oliveira calls her process "a compromise between sculpture and photography.
" Using a foam frame, the Toronto-based artist creates three-dimensional pieces that simulate reality in a very distorted, yet intriguing way. Oliveira examines “our preoccupation with replacing nature with fabricated versions of itself.” Eric Singelin. Jen Stark. Jen Stark. Jen Stark (born 1983 in Miami, Florida) is a contemporary artist whose majority of work involves creating paper sculptures.
Jen Stark. Jen Stark, l'artiste haute en couleur - Radio VL. Clive Stevens. Fideli Sundqvist. Fideli Sundqvist. Jose suris. Albums de R. Sweeney. Richard Sweeney. Richard Sweeney – Paper Sculpture. It is the Chinese of course who invented paper, and it is one of the most used mediums in their crafts.
There are whole stores in China devoted to solely to paper goods for Ancestoral worship. The Japanese have also created amazing works in paper for centuries, but the significance and breadth of Paper Craft seems to have only relatively recently become known to a wider “western” culture, and it is becoming increasingly validated as a “serious” Art or Craft Form. One of the most skilful “Western” artists I have come across using paper as a sculptural medium is Richard Sweeney in England. Paper Sculpture created for La Rinascente Christmas window display 2010, Piazza Del Duomo, Milan. Richard Sweeney was born in Huddersfield, England in 1984. Julien Vallée.
Michael Velliquette. Michael Velliquette. Michael Velliquette. Michael Velliquette (born, 1971 in Sandusky, Ohio) is an artist currently living and working in Madison, WI.
Velliquette hand cuts commercially colored card stock into delicate shapes and then glues them together to create three-dimensional collages. (via Wikipedia) Michael Velliquette - San Antonio, TX Artist - Sculptors. About Michael Drawings often develop into mixed-media sculptures using an array of lo-fi craft supplies such as cardboard, string, tinfoil, paper, and latex paint.
These objects are often elaborately ornamented and take on a wide variety of forms including mobiles, wall relief, and sculptural furniture. At times they are combined in human-scale environments to create complex visual and spatial relationships, and to suggest a sort of homemade 3D cosmography. In these works, it is my intention that viewers will enter the composition and experience what Angela Ndalianis describes as ‘co-extensive space ‘ a space that illusionistically connects with and infinitely extends from our own. Polly Verity. These amazingly intricate sculptures are made by UK artist and sculptor Polly Verity.
Firstly, she constructs the figures using wire bases and then covers them with acid-free paper with folded paper inserts, so that they are a little see-through. The results are both beautiful and unique. Polly’s characters are often linked to mythological creatures such as the wire sculpture of harpy, griffin, winged horse or an Egyptian Ba. Polly’s works differ from each other; she also creates life-sized wearable paper dresses, wire shoes, weird masks and flawlessly made origami patterns. polyscene.com Related posts: Polly Verity. Stephanie Wiehle.
Ian Wright. Ian Wright's Colourful Life. Illustrator and artist Ian Wright has unveiled a series of new commissioned works from his role as artistic ambassador for Keaykolour paper, all of which can be seen at Tent London The artworks all take music as their starting point - a constant source of inspiration in Wright's life, and all have been created using Keaykolour paper.
Wright had the names of various radio stations foil blocked onto different colour papers and cut and folded the paper to build up a multi-layered, brightly coloured boombox. "This was my interest in pirate radio - which is probably where all my musical knowledge comes from," says Wright. "So I wanted to reference that in some way. " The three new works form the basis of Colourful Life, a campaign from design studio Blast to relaunch the brand and its 29 paper colours.
"We've worked with ArjoWiggins for quite a few years," explains Blast's Colin Gifford, "and they asked us to work on the rebrand of Keaykolour. Video #1: JVC Boombox. Keaykolour's 'colourful life' campaign with Ian Wright.