Johan Jonsson

Johan was born in Luleå, Sweden in 1966. Except for a few years in Stockholm and Gothenburg he has worked and studied in Luleå. He now divides his time between Luleå and a small village outside Skellefteå, where his studio is located.

The visual art: It is sculpture in mixed media - metal, wood, fabrics, tar, leather, wire, welding filler, silicone, rust. The basis is usually metal, and usually items/materials used in agriculture and forestry. The interest, however, lies in the combination of these rural materials/items and urban ones like plastic, rubber, silicone, parts of dolls and toys…

"Junk art" might be the term when it comes to choice of "material". When it comes to artistry, terms like "art brut" or "outsider art" are better suited.

His art is basically a process which often results in humans, figures, postures, poses. The working process more than often makes use of chance (http://byjohan.se/cv.html).

Anger Management - 21x36x26 cm

(fabrics, swaddling-clothes, weld, leather, steel wire, nails, pipes)

1/2 Hamster Wheel - 20x40x40 cm
(caterpillar treads, fabrics, chalk, newspaper, nails)

Doing Horse, 17x46x40 cm
(nails, leather, weld, doll part, harness)

Monica Lynn Manoski

Monica Lynn Manoski: My art serves as a visual map. Each completed piece cements a period of time in which I examine different thoughts, actions, emotions, and responsibilities. Textures evoke many of the feelings I experience while creating. The utilization of light and shadow and their play on various surfaces allows for the expression of these ideas.

The visual power of an object’s surface is great. Yet, this superficial skin is often very delicate and easily damaged. My work makes use of materials that are vulnerable to the touch and the elements. Each piece is made from textiles, which are thin and malleable. This fabric is fastened only by dressmaker’s pins that, over time, may work their way out of position. In addition, the surfaces of each work jut out into the third dimension, leaving them prone to abuse. Thus, my fabrications confront the issue of ephemerality. Like my human engagements which this work represents, my artwork is delicate, but there is beauty and strength in that fragility.

Process and materiality are essential in the development of my artistic expressions. The physical and emotional practice leads to new self-discovery. Therefore, I allow the materials and process to guide my practice and not the vision of a finished work. This unforeseen outcome provokes new and continuing creativity.

The abstract nature of my work encourages the viewer to discover instances that relate to their interpersonal thoughts and relations. Each work serves as a window of imagination. Through the use of light, shadow, and surface my work exhibits the sojourn to self-discovery (website).

Engaged

66 x 72 x 36"

Engrossed

60 x 66 x 24"

Exhausted

24 X 26 X 12"

Rebecca Fox

Rebecca Fox is a San Francisco based Metal Sculptor who creates welded steel sculpture.

Rebecca Fox was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1976. After moving to San Francisco in 1996, she attended City College and studied sculpture at the College Fort Mason Art Campus. She learned to weld and immediately became addicted to creating sculpture and collecting metal. Rebecca found her true passion in life: creating art using metal as her medium.

To expand her technical knowledge, she worked for several years as a welder in a custom metal fabrication shop in Oakland, California. Rebecca learned many valuable metal-working skills, which she applies to her art. At the same time, she became the Teacher's Assistant and Laboratory Technician
for the Sculpture Department at City College (http://fineartamerica.com/featured/9281-154-rebecca-fox.html.)

154, Metal

147, Metal

163, Metal

Marta Thoma

Marta Thoma has gone green! By coating scores of recycled bottles on the inside with an extra strong safety material to resist breakage, the artist has converted our society’s refuse into a perfect material for outdoor sculpture. The bottles are tinted in the process, to create subtle color variations. LED lighting on a solar system is optional and enhances the sculpture to glow at night as well as sparkle in the day. With her swooping, art nouveau inspired steel framework and her water and air related subject matter, Thoma is indeed creating “nouveau art” that is in tune with our present interest in sustainability, water, and environmental care.

Double wave, 2008

Green River, glass and metal

Star, glass and metal

Gerard Tsutakawa

Gerard Tsutakawa apprenticed with his father, late George Tsutakawa, for ten years. He then oversaw all of his father’s fountain and sculpture fabrication and installation, including many major public works. Since this early apprenticeship, he has established himself as an accomplished sculptor in his own right and has been featured in solo and group shows throughout the Northwest. He has been recognized for his sensually abstract bronze sculpture and his elegant bronze fountains of flawless design and beauty. (http://www.sculpturesite.com/GERARDTSUTAKAWA.cfm?ArtistsID=38)

Lifted Square, bronze

Avanti, 2008

Opus, 2009

Stephen Cartwright

Since 1999 Stephen Cartwright has recorded his exact latitude, longitude and elevation every hour of every day. Cartwright uses digital and traditional fabrication techniques to translate his collected data into his sculptural projects. Since the inception of the Latitude and Longitude recording project Stephen Cartwright has completed several grand bicycle journeys through North America, Europe and Asia, totaling more than 20,000 miles. Prolonged observation of his location has led Cartwright to his recent work investigating the use and alteration of the landscape. He is also currently a professor of Sculpture and 3D Art Foundations at University of Illinois, Champaign.(Stephen Cartwright)

Mesh 1 (2010)

(Cycling 1997-2009)

Acrylic 2x9x9 ft.

Champaign Mining (2009)

Acrylic 9x9x10 in.

Fort Peck (2009)

Acrylic 13x8x2 ft.

Bathsheba Grossman

Bathsheba Grossman (1966–) is an artist in Santa Cruz, California who creates sculptures using computer-aided design and three-dimensional modeling, with metal printing technology to produce sculpture in bronze and stainless steel. Her bronze sculptures are primarily mathematical in nature, often depicting intricate patterns or mathematical oddities (for instance, a figure with only one side but three edges). Her website also has crystals that have been laser etched with three-dimensional patterns, including models of nearby stars, the DNA macromolecule, and the Milky Way Galaxy.Grossman's works have featured in art galleries around the world, as well as the New York Times, and the television series Numb3rs and Heroes. One of her rapid prototyping sculptures is used as a lamp. She studied under sculptor Erwin Hauer at Yale University as an undergraduate, and later with Robert Engman at the University of Pennsylvania. 'Although her technique and media output may be compared with that of a craft shop, thus diminishing its "artisitic" value, I believe the basic designs and premise of her sculpture hold true to the ideals of art today.' (www.wikipedia.com, and me).

Flame Pendant

Flow Bronze

Snow Sculpture at Breckenridge, 2002