Talk about a paper cut.

Wormholes, MRI scans and dead bodies. All these things inspire artist Jen Stark, who is known for creating hypnotic paper sculptures. Having a sister who is a doctor, Stark had sectional anatomy textbooks to look through. "Seeing the human body displayed like a flip book was grotesque, yet mesmerizing," says Stark.




Jen doesn't use software or complicated hardware to create her pieces.She sketches her designs and then slices, using her X-Acto knife. This is one woman with a knife you should definitely stay away from.



Jen Stark's Paper Sculptures

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Polish the city twice a day.

Having become world-renowned for his stainless steel sculptures of “scholars' rocks,” Zhan Wang, a respected artist in China, painstakingly creates his pieces of art by bending, heating and molding sections of stainless steel plates across the cloud-like topography of each rock. The graceful, craggy boulders can be found in several provinces around China that seem to have been sculpted by natural forces.

The artist created a topographical San Francisco cityscape, using steel rocks, mirrored surfaces, silverware, and stainless steel pots and pans.

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Get your KAWS off of me.

Street artist KAWS has showcased his artistic talent through several different outlets over the past few years, including clothing lines, accessories, and magazines. Let's add another outlet, an art gallery.



New York gallery, Franklin Parrasch, will be hosting the "everything else" exhibition that will showcase some of KAWS signature works, including the 4ft. companion and an untitled painting with a hanging Smurf The opening reception is set for Thursday, June 19, from 6 to 8 pm. There will also be installations from a wide range of artists, so definitely check it out. It will give you the opportunity to use one of your date dresses.


Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 W 57th Street (between 5th and 6th Ave.)
New York, NY 10019
Tel 212.246.5360


KAWS adding his personal touch to NYC.

Spotlight: Thomas Heatherwick

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Thomas Heatherwick is known for his innovative engineering and use of materials. The popularity of Heatherwick's designs shows us his drive to make his work comprehensible to people who don't know the first thing about design. His work sometimes get this London-based designer mislabeled as a sculptor or artist.

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The Bleigiessen

The perfect example of how powerfully Heatherwick's designs affect people would be "The Bleigiessen" in central London. Th seven-story sculpture is made up of more than a hundred and forty-two thousand glass spheres, in a pattern outlining the shape of molten lead dropped in water. The Wellcome Trust, a British medical foundation, got a taste of the Heatherwick effect three years ago, after it commissioned him to do The Bleigiessen for their atrium. The foundation is closed to the public, but demand to see the sculpture has been so intense that it now opens its doors once a month to show off Heatherwick's work.

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Heatherwick founded the Thomas Heatherwick Studio in 1994 to bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice.
The studio's work spans commercial and residential building projects, master-planning and infrastructure schemes, as well as high profile works of public art.

For more info, click HERE.
http://www.heatherwick.com/