Category: Art Installations

  • Trip to the Cincinnati Zoo and Joel Sartore Exhibition

      We were lucky enough to catch the National Geographic, Joel Sartore Exhibit of Animal photographs entitled Photo Ark on our trip to the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens. This exhibition is making the rounds of zoos all around the country and is quite frankly, stunning. Joel Sartore is on a mission to document species…

  • Photographer, Katerina Plotnikova – Stunning Portraits With Real Animals

    Photographer, Katerina Plotnikova and her stunning portraits with real animals are not photoshopped or enhanced. They are completely real and raw! Not only are these shots incredibly beautiful but they are touching moments with humans and animals where we feel mutual love. The rest of Katerina‘s body of work is just as magical and surreal. Here is…

  • Amazing Miniature Tree House

      This amazing and breathtaking miniature treehouse leaves me speechless. The creator Maddie Chambers, who lives in Chesterfield, England – inspired by the book Spring Story by Jill Barklem, decided to recreate the “Crabapple Cottage.” She spared no detail, spending 11 months constructing the entire structure from scratch and molding many pieces from Fimo clay such as the…

  • Angle on Artist – Carlie Trosclair

        Now for some art! Here is the next in our series of Angle on Artists and we are featuring the Soft Sculptures of Carlie Trosclair who is an installation artist based in St. Louis, Missouri. Trosclair earned an MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts at Washington University in St.…

  • Childs Play by Daniel Buren -Madre Contemporary Art Museum, Naples

      If you are lucky enough to be traveling to Naples this summer, don’t miss the Madre contemporary art museum’s, Child’s Play, created by by the 77-year-old French artist Daniel Buren. With this installation visitors are welcomed into the large gallery on the ground floor of the museum, converted into a play area with a veritable game of…

  • Tower of London Poppies

    Tower of London Poppies To commemorate the centennial of Britain’s involvement in the First World War – Remembrance Day, a spectacular art installation entitled Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red has been created by artist Paul Cummins and stage designer Tom Piper at The Tower of London. 888,246 ceramic poppies are gradually filling the Tower’s moat…

  • Amazing Embroidery from the Hasta Mostla Exhibition – Mexico

      I am just blown away with this beautiful embroidery which is part of the Hasta Mostla Exhibition in Mexico. I see it as a kind of “Expressionist Embroidery” just because of the freedom in the stitches and depictions. And love that they show photos of the process – see below! The exhibit brings together…

  • The Monster Engine – Paintings based on Kid’s Art

      These photos are part of the “The Monster Engine Project“, created by Dave DeVries.  The Monster Engine is based on the idea of creating realistic paintings from children’s drawings. Sometimes artists just happen to get to one point where their imagination stops. But not children. These images present drawings made by children, all around…

  • Aurélie Mathigot – Tapestry Art, Paris

      The French artist Aurélie Mathigot creates unique tapestries which are a symphony of fibers. She embroiders, weaves, knits, crochets and even beads these photographs of landscapes to highlight a fleeting luminescence or detail or mood. And her current exhibition is called “Des fils, des histoires, des histoires qui défilent”, which means more or less, “Some yarns, stories,…

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