Tach Pollard's sculptures feel less like objects carved and more like beings revealed, as if they have been waiting, quietly, patiently, inside the grain of ancient wood. Rooted in the oak forests of ...
Foon Sham, “Escape I, Tunnel” (2016), pine, 14 x 62 x 5 ft. (all images courtesy of Gallery Neptune and Brown) WASHINGTON, DC — Foon Sham’s wooden sculptures often look like large vases or tornadoes.
At the start of her cover of “Proud Mary,” Tina Turner announces: “We never ever do nothing nice and easy … we like to do it nice and rough.” Too much sculpture today bores us with nice and easy.
For his latest collaboration with Hermès, the Mexican artist brings his whimsical wood sculptures into the world of luxury craftsmanship, exploring the relationship between nature, production and the ...
Chainsaws are the most brutish of power tools, which makes them seem unlikely to be used as a carving utensil. But a small band of chainsaw artists have elevated their craft, and created some amazing ...
It’s fitting that the largest wood-carved sculpture in the Chatham-Kent series was erected in Highgate.
The use of wood also represents an evolution in Drew’s practice over the last three decades. “Wood is a material I am interested in at the moment,” says the artist, whose work belongs to the ...
Q: When the white oak holding up half the hammock at my vacation home died, I did not want to move the hammock. I hired a talented local chain-saw artist, Andrew Mallon of Falls Church, Va., to carve ...
Auteurs or fiilmmakers whose presence dominates every aspect of their work, are the subject of a surreal new sculpture series by artist Mike Leavitt called King Cuts. The exhibition of satirical wood ...
New wooden statues of women that have appeared on the streetscapes of Tipperary Town are generating huge interest locally. The wooden sculptures of two ladies are drawing interested spectators on ...
Wooden bears, birds and mythical creatures came to life in Frederick this weekend at the town’s annual carving competition. The “Chainsaws and Chuckwagons” event brought 10 woodcarvers to Frederick to ...