Rosa Verloop

The Dutch sculptor Rosa Verloop has created these really swollen looking human like figures. The material she has chosen makes them look almost life-like and very organic in the way it mirrors human skin as well as its soft looking texture. Thankfully, all she uses is nylon to mimic this! 

Personally, despite the fact that the figures look diseased and ill, I almost want to feel the sculptures just to see how soft they are. I enjoy how the figures are swollen and puffy. She has definitely pulled off her desired effect to cause a curiosity in people. The nylon material is perfectly creases and folds to mimic wrinkles and creates deformed, haunting subjects. I particularly like when Verloop uses white nylon that resemble marble head busts.

See more of these puffy figures after the jump!

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Letha Wilson

Ghost of a Tree  2011/12
digital print on vinyl, drywall, wood, wood column
10' x 8' x 14'

Check out these photographic sculptures by American artist Letha Wilson!

 Born in Honolulu, raised in Colorado and living in New York, Letha Wilson has been producing mixed media works; playing with the physicality of photography and combining the element of 3D. They come across as abstract and interesting. Wilson cleverly places her 3D feature of the work which forces the focal point into view. She ranges from site-specific installations to photographs hanging on a wall. She either folds, cuts, adds to her photographs which heightens the character of a simple 2D photograph to something else. And definitely makes landscape photography less boring to look at! 

"My artwork uses images and materials from the natural landscape as a starting point for interpretation and confrontation. My work creates relationships between architecture and nature, and the gallery space and the American wilderness. In the photo-based sculptures the ability for a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural intervention attempts to compensate for the photograph’s failure to encompass the physical site it represents. Landscape photography as a genre is approached with equal parts reverence and skepticism. In another body of work, site-specific installations juxtapose re-claimed wood and drywall material in innovative ways that respond to both interior and outdoors environments, and comment on the glut of material discarded in the contemporary art exhibition cycle." via.

Be sure to check out her website portfolio  for more of her works and updates on her next shows if they will be near you!

More after the jump!

Vertical Horizons (White Sands)   2010   folded c-print and frame   15" x 12" 

Concrete Snowbank   2011   unique c-print, museum board, plywood, cement
29" x 16 1/2" x 10"

Granite Tumbler  2010 C-print, rubber, cut plexi glass, frame, 13" x 30" x 3"

      And So On (California)        2007         C-print, wood, paint             50" x 40" x 2"

Extrusions of Five Palm Trees near Lake Mead, Nevada  2003

Digital print, wood, styrafoam, plaster, paint

  60" x 72" x 62"

Extrusion of Dad into Joshua Tree, Arizona   2006  

 Digital print on canvas, Expanded Polystyrene

58" x 60" x 32"

Vertical Horizon            2010                c-print, cut plexiglass, aluminium frame

images via culturehall // website // booooooom