The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. "My work is a collaboration with the existing material and its past creators and the completed pieces expose new relationships of the book’s internal elements exactly where they have been since their original conception," he says. "The richness and depth of the book is universally respected yet often undiscovered as the monopoly of the form and relevance of the information fades over time. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he studied at Columbia College. Update: Read our exclusive interview with the Book Surgeon here. Brian Dettmer's website
twentysevengears home David Patchen - San Francisco, CA Artist - Sculptors About David David Patchen was born and raised in New York and studied at Pilchuck Glass School in Seattle, Washington. He describes glass as a seductive as well as challenging and particularly unforgiving medium. His latest work is an exploration of detailed patterns, colors and transparency, all created through multi-layered cane and murrine. Patchen is Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors at Public Glass and former member of the Glass Alliance of Northern California’s board of directors.
Applied Kinetic Arts » Xtras The Jacky Winter Group represents Aaron Horkey Aaron Horkey was birthed and reared in Windom, Minnesota, in the heart of the Rural Midwest. Key personality traits include debilitating social ineptitude and a perverse attention to detail. Enjoys desolation, megafauna and transplanting sumacs. Currently ensconced in a bucolic whistlestop just west of the Mississippi, he whiles away the hours staring at his chore list and cultivating ulcers. Previous clients include INIT Records, Flip Skateboards, Playge, ISIS, Converge, Neurosis, Boris, Andrew Bird, Grails, Genghis Tron, Spitfire Wheels, Fat Possum Records, Deathwish INC, Hydra Head Records, Bruce Horkey’s Wood and Parts, Big Brain Comics, Flight of the Conchords, Mogwai, Ride Snowboards, Magic Bullet Records, Khanate and 420X10 Records. Name: ahorkey Place of Birth: The Rural Midwest Currently Living in: Train, bus, bike, or other: Aeron What's the most important object in your studio? Stereo receiver. Paper or Plastic? Brought my own. Clark Cone. Run. Favourite client so far? Graveyard Satan Water
Old School Political Art, Circa 1830s, at the Cantor Arts Center: Visual Arts Art Review By Ben Marks | Aug 15, 2012 Honoré Daumier, The past, the present, the future, 1834. There's been a lot of buzz lately, at least among people I talk to, about a pair of exhibitions focusing on the protest art of Occupy and the graphics that accompanied the social-justice movement of the 1960s. The first show is Occupy Bay Area at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco through October 14, 2012. The second is All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area, which closes on August 19, 2012, at the Oakland Museum of California. I wrote about the connection between the artwork produced by these two movements back in March for Collectors Weekly, but after seeing When Artists Attack the King: Honoré Daumier and La Caricature, 1830–1835, now through November 11, 2012, at the Cantor Art Center on the Stanford campus, I'm beginning to think I didn't go back far enough. Honoré Daumier, Don't You Meddle with It!! Resources: Cantor Arts Center
Eric Standley’s Intricate Laser Cut Stained Glass Paper Windows Eric Standley works with hundreds of layers of colored paper creating intricate laser cut stain glass windows. These beautifully constructed works are made up of interlacing positive and negative spaces that seem to “float” in a fabricated suspension. He begins with a drawing, this helps him create the complex range of imagery needed to make a workable design, before cutting and assembling the paper pieces. Standley’s windows are similar in complexity to that of traditional stained glass, and bring to mind the beautiful Northern Rose window of the medieval Chartres Cathedral in France. Standley received his Master of Fine Arts from Savannah College of Art and Design and is currently an Associate Professor of Studio Art and the Foundations of Art and Design Coordinator for the School of Visual Arts at Virginia Tech. Share: 17 thoughts on “Eric Standley’s Intricate Laser Cut Stained Glass Paper Windows”