Dodo Toucan

 

Paris-based Dodo Toucan, helmed by Sara Theron, finds the sweet spot between design and crafts with their ceramic creations. Each one – usually an animal – is part of a very limited series that’s handmade with the hope of brightening up an ordinary day. Some pieces are miniature and can be carried in your pocket as a sort of good luck charm, while others are a bit larger.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Paola Pivi

 

Life-sized polar bears that are like no other because they’re covered in bright, colorful feathers! Paola Pivi is the artist behind them, and even though the bears aren’t new I love them all the same. Pivi even consulted with a taxidermist to get every detail just right on all eight of her urethane sculptures.

 

 

 

 

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Fiona Roberts

 

Let’s get wonderfully weird this Valentine’s Day with the work of Australian artist Fiona Roberts. Her
Façade ceramic series focuses entirely on body parts that are slightly… out of their element. Wet mouths on dinner plates, dozens of dismembered fingers gathered in the bathroom sink, and discerning eyes that seem to be screaming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Modular Art from Bend

 

These modular art pieces from Bend have been along for a bit now, but every time I come across them I’m reminded just how much potential they have! The metal wire pieces are sold as sets of two in both straight and curved formations as well as in various colors. Designing and creating your own personalized wall sculpture has never seemed so closely within reach!

 

 

 

 

 

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Alan Belcher

 

Alan Belcher is known for developing the ‘photo object’ genre of art, in other words artworks that combine photography and sculpture. In this series the universal jpeg icon has been turned into a 3D object that deceives the eyes. This ceramic multiple edition is entitled _____.jpg and was fabricated in China in an edition of 125, each signed, numbered, and dated.

 

 

 

 

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Andrew Ooi

 

Canadian painter, sculptor, and pattern-maker Andrew Ooi individually creases, unfolds, paints, and re-folds each piece of paper in his art by hand before assembling them all together. By combining color, pattern, and shape, Ooi creates a well-organized natural order.

“My art is about making sense of the world. It is about arranging the disparate shapes and elements I perceive environments, histories, geographies, art, artistry and human nature to be made up of into tangible systems and forms,” explains Andrew. “It is about occupying these realities, ideas and interests in feeling and being, to allow meaning and its significance in the long view, to develop measuredly.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Olivia Walker

 

At first look, the porcelain works of Olivia Walker seem to have some sort of botanical influence. Turns out it’s coral. Walker explores growth and decay through the addition and subtraction of tiny pieces of porcelain clay to the initial vessel she’s created, each shape speaking to her and dictating the final result.

 

 

 

 

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Josie Lewis

 

Multidisciplinary artist Josie Lewis creates works that make me – and I’m guessing lots of others – insanely happy! Winding trails of graduated colored circles that travel over and under themselves on their journey, abstract moments caught forever in resin that remind me of the prettiest petri dishes, and so much more.

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Gloria Landenberger

 

I’ve been thinking a bit about what’s on my own Christmas list this year and I wouldn’t mind one little bit if one of Gloria Landenberger‘s handmade ceramic masks showed up under the tree. Each one is made and assembled by hand in limited editions, the end result being glazed stoneware with a unique look.

 

 

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