BEAUTY: Sculpture--Mihoko Ogaki

Japanese conceptual artist Mihoko Ogaki's series "Milky Ways--Breath" features fibre-reinforced plastic figures of dying or dead people with entire galaxies or even universes inside them. Small holes in the surface of the figure allow star maps to be projected onto the surrounding walls. This simple yet profound image is breathtaking in its scope of meaning. The pieces are rife with the ideas of cycles, transformation, transmogrification, macro and micro, and our connection and place in the reality around us.

http://www.mihoko-ogaki.com/index.html

I am sure I have posted these images before, but here they are again because they are so relevant to the art of Ogaki.

BEAUTY: Ceramic--Johnson Tsang

Ceramicist Johnson Tsang creates lovely, whimsical pieces that look like liquid, not ceramic! In fact, he was awarded Grand Prize at the 2012 Taiwan Ceramics Biennale for his humorous and unexpected piece Splash of Wonder seen below in the final four images.

The liquid in the piece above is actually stainless steel as Tsang wanted a material that would look even more like liquid!

Top to bottom:Yuanyang; three views of Yuanyang 2; four views of Splash of Wonder

http://johnsontsang.wordpress.com/#

BEAUTY: Sculpture--Morgan Herrin

Carpenter/ artist/ sculptor Morgan Herrin works magic on plain old lumber.

Top to bottom: Copper Gate; untitled (Knight); untitled (detail); untitled

http://www.adagallery.com/Morgan_Herrin.html