otherworldly or innerworldly

Reno-based sculptor Rebekah Bogard's ceramics were featured recently on my love for you is a stampede of horses. Clearly her work exists in a world of its own, though I can see how it connects with the otherworldly work of the previously featured Renee Adams. Her work also features reinterpreted flora and fauna. She is playing with the innocence and yet complexity of animals. She is playing with stereotypes, of gender, cuteness, and colour, and yet there is this rawness and openness. Femininity with power. Check out her site.


Botany of Desite 26" x 19" x 10" (2007) Earthenware, underglaze, glaze


For Your General Bliss 18" x 16" x 10" (2006) Earthenware, underglaze, glaze, resin


On the left: Addiction 9" x 7" x 6" (2001) Earthenware, underglaze, glaze
On the right: Floridus Animalis 29" x 17" x 16" (2003) Earthenware, underglaze, glaze,terra sigillata, metal rods

Courtney 19.5" x 29" x 15.5" (2001) Earthenware, underglaze, glaze, metal rods

Another female ceramic artist subverting the traditional use and forms of china and ceramic sculpture is Canadian superstar Shary Boyle. Her surreal, yet exquisite sculptures also have something to say about sexuality, and gender. She also uses animals, flowers and things which could be cute, or feminine, in a different context. If you don't already know her work, check out her site, where you will also find drawings, paintings and projected art.


2006. Snowball. Porcelain, china paint. 24cm tall.


2006. Ouroboros. Porcelain, china paint, gilt. 16cm tall.


2004. Porcelain, china paint. 26cm tall.

Undead menace, and other PSA

Oh dear, there has been a zombie-shortage around here.
Check out the work of illustrator and designer Travis Pitts (Dr. Monster on flickr) [via Apartment Therapy]






A work-in-progress, because one can never have too much Bowie.

{He shares the PRoSPERoUS FoX' worshipful 23 allusions}.

Soundsuits

I discovered the other Nick Cave, artist and fashion professor in Chicago, via The Rag & Bone blog. He creates magnificent and fantastical 'sound suits' - items somewhere between sculpture, costume, textile art, haute couture, musical instrument and fetish. He explains their genesis below. Inspired by traditional African costumes, he notes also that the suits conceal, "the identity, race, and gender, of those who wear his suits. Rendering them faceless and anonymous the suits help these individuals transcend the political realm in order to enter the realm of dreams and fantasy." Really, you need to look at them- they cannot be described adequately in words.


Soundsuit,2009
Mixed Media
97 x 26 x 20 inches


Soundsuit,2008
Mixed Media
98 x 27 x 14 inches


Soundsuit, 2009
Mixed Media


Soundsuit,2008
Vintage hats, found materials
98 x 32 x 28 inches


Soundsuit, 2008
Mixed Media
102 x 36 x 28 inches


Soundsuit, 2009
Mixed Media

Meds: the art and crafts

Craftster user Knit-R-Done (blog) posted this 'stitched painting' embroidery, the first in her series 'The Promise of Pills'. I love the ironic pairing of the pill with the cutesy fabric, and the subtlety of the use of colour.

Craft: magazine has Becky Stern's Vicodin ring and earrings.


Writer, etsy artist (& LJ friend), Montrealer reqbat has a whole series based on pills (though more recently, it's all about crows and magpie & whiskeyjack of course approve). Check out some of the things from her shop:




Look at this witty rug by Dan Golden:



Apparently, he's coming out with a whole line of pillows called "The Meds" with abstract imagery based on popular prescription pills. [via More Ways to Waste Time]

I like penguins

Happy Earth Day, Penguins.
This is Takashi Taniguchi’s “Mr. Ando of the Woods” (with English subtitles) [via Pink Tentacle]

Miscellaneous Magpie

By Julia Potts (young, talented, British illustrator and animator... you can -and should- find more of her work on etsy, or her blog, via Lou lou and Oscar).

Yes, gentle reader, the above illustration made me happy... but it also made me think of you. Are you there? Please do say hello. I don't bite.

Here. I brought you some fluorescent minerals (via Nothing is New).










And a uh, unique hat by the incomparable Stephen Jones (via Fabulon).



Here we have some sugar branches: Dutch artist Marieke van der Bruggen's 'Garden of delight' tree branches made of coloured glucose. Aren't they beautiful? (via MoCo Loco and It's (K)not Wood)





Enjoy!

Contemporary Cabinets of Curiosity

Ah, the Wunderkammer! How I love thee.
I discovered French multi-media genius Maïssa Toulet via Apartment Therapy (of all places!). Look at the wonderous cabinets of curiosity she has created:

Les os sur la peau {Bones on Skin}


Festin de Rongeurs {Rodent Feast}


Tableau De Chasse {Hunting Panel}

Visit her site to see many more.
Also, kudos on the web-design! Her "about" page (à propos de...) is an acebécédaire. How do I love alphabets?

The photos of a recent installation "Le Cabinet de sorcellerie {Cabinet of Sorcery} couples magic, science, ephemera, toys and assorted oddities:



Drawn.ca featured Museum of the Mad, the Macabre, and the Marvelous by C.D. Richardson. Check out some more wunderkammer specials...