James Maybe

For Connected, Kasey McMahon fabricates a networked goddess out of Ethernet cables.

A shark in my soup, by Apostolos Porsanidis.

Oh look. It’s a dollar sign made out of bullets. How clever! The artist must be making some kind of statement. Humm… I know! It’s about the connection between money and warfare. Do you get it? Do you fucking get it!?

Shown Not Shown above: Joe Gee’s Explorations. Gee has another sculpture with the word “PEACE” spelled out in bullets. Hahahahaha oh the irony!

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Siberian artist Marina Bychkova takes the inherent creepiness of realistic dolls to a whole new level with her tiny porcelain creations. Her “Enchanted Dolls” feature ball-joints and tattoos and anatomically correct private parts.

A robot sculpture with its own backstory, from mheisler. See extended for more views.

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A wooden sculpture by Scott Musgrove.

Artist, sculptor, and toy maker Andrew Bell built a custom wagon sculpture, tied an absurdly large and bulbous cargo to the roof, and posed it for Road Trip photos.  The result is a perfectly charming image of slightly warped Americana.

What better way to follow up posting about the 7 Deadly Sins than with another post of The Deadly Sins. This one is by Kris Kuksi, an American artist whose sculptures are like 3-dimensional realizations of Hieronymus Bosch’s nightmare visions, but more intricately detailed and with twice the black humor.

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Take lots of multi-colored products with a shared theme. Stick them on a poll. Doesn’t sound like a recipe for a great work, but David Batchelor’s Parapillar 7 is well executed, original, and fun.

For centuries, the art world was dominated by religious icons. If you painted, and you wanted to get paid for it, your subject matter was strictly Old or New Testament. The Church was your biggest patron, and the subject matter was something everyone around you understood.

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Urban samurai toy by Dr. Bao-NVC Crew

Charles Krafft crafts weapons out of porcelain. The results are surprising good, dispite his clearly limited talent for executing in his chosen medium.