Scott Hove was previously featured back in April 2010, landing himself on our TOP 100 of 2010, which was then followed up by an Interview on March 2011. Hove is the man that you need to hit up for that cake!

Laurie Hassold is a sculptor based out of Southern California that constructs bizarre organisms out of this world. She molds her extraterrestrial lifeforms out of clay, bones, wire, paint, and other random objects. H.R. Giger and Kris Kuksi would be proud.

What better way to create new and interesting forms of technological art, than to combine all of our pre-existing ones? Meet studio Marshmallow Laser Feast, with their amazing showcase of Musical Laser Forests, Light Painting, and Quadcopters. In association with The Creators Project

Urs Fischer is an immensely prolific artist originally from Switzerland who creates both sculptural and installations pieces. Fischer is currently based out of New York where he continues to create amazing art.

Christopher Coppers is a Brussels-based artist whose sculptural pieces are created by using strips of magazines. Combining his love for printed matter with an obvious urge for creative destruction, Christopher painstakingly revisits magazines in a way which somehow gives them a second purpose, a second life. This gentleman was featured on June 2010.

Damien Hirst is a London based artist that uses a varied practice of installation, sculpture, painting and drawing to explore the complex relationship between art, life and death. “Art’s about life and it can’t really be about anything else … there isn’t anything else.”

David Altmejd is a Canadian artist who lives and works in New York with a very unique approach to sculpting. He has a variety of styles from contemporary to obscure that screams of emotion using all forms of mediums. Mr. Altmejd was featured back in 2010 and it's great to see him back.

Anthony McCall is a British-born American avant-garde artist specializing in the power of light, projected film, and cinema. His works are simple projections that emphasize the sculptural qualities of a beam of light. Be sure to catch his current exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, UK.

This is not your typical Candyland board game, I'll tell you that much. Nicole Andrijevic & Tanya Schultz is an art-duo who takes sugar, pigment, polystyrene, wax, modeling clay, paper, plastic, found objects, wire, beads, glitter, and almost whatever else they can get their hands on to create a literal Candyland in the middle of the gallery floor.

Alyson Shotz is a contemporary sculptor and installation artist based out of Brooklyn, New York. The R.I.S.D. alumni has been featured at the Guggenheim in New York, Atlanta’s High Museum, Storm King and Socrates Sculpture Parks, and Louis Vuitton in Kobe, Japan.

Olga Ziemska is a sculptor hailing from Cleveland, Ohio. Taken literally, her name means Olga "of the Earth" which is wonderfully fitting given her supernatural ability to sculpt movement from tendrils of wood.

Aron Demetz' medium doesn't rely on the shape of his sculptures, but rather the various stages in which the medium is treated and how each aspect of its creation and decomposition reflects on the figure itself. His sculptures of the human body range from raw almost unfinished wood carvings, to burnt remnants of what once was of his subject.

The marvelous engineering artistry and manipulation of the everyday clock, in the minimalistic kinetic installation A Million Times. Crafted and designed by Humans Since 1982 and David Cox.

This year for SXSW Empty Kingdom partnered with the awesome HOPE Campaign to deliver an amazing all day art event in Austin Texas.  Empty Kingdom was most honored to bring Dave Young, Derek Gores, Hugh Leeman, and Joel Daniel Phillips down to Austin to participate and put their various talents to work to make this wall shine.  If you didn't manage to get down there, don't fret y'all!  We've got photos!  And maybe we'll see you next time, in your city... On behalf of all of us at Empty Kingdom, we are incredibly thankful to both the artists as well as everyone who supported this effort, whether financially or by promoting the event via the various methods of social media and by word of mouth.

Candas Sisman is from Izmir, Turkey. His portfolio mainly consists of multimedia works that often incorporate music or a soundtrack. Some of his projects, such as Deep Space Music, which features Japanese pianist Maki Namekawa, changes the way a musician performs and how an audience experiences a musical performance.

Julie Rrap is a very well-established and award-winning Australian artist who has become a major figure in contemporary art for many years now. Rrap explores themes regarding the representation of the human figure (particularly the female nude) throughout art history, as well as in mainstream popular culture. Typically, Rrap uses her own body as the subject for her work, which spans from photography, mixed media painting, sculptures, installation, and performance art to name just a few.

Canadian artist Andrew Young was originally featured on August 2010  and again on October 2011. He continues to develop a gritty style of painting filled with manic moods and erratic compositions. His latest work is like  slow time-lapse captured straight out of a dream.

South Korean Sculptor Do Ho Suh's installation of 98 men is currently standing tall at the New Orleans Museum of Art. The 23 foot sculpture entitled ''Karma" is made out of stainless steel and was also recently installed in Sydney.

German designer Elisa Strozyk has an incredible penchant for turning the indelible toughness of wood into woven textiles, lending a surprising delicacy to the material we usually perceive as hard, and solid.

Luka Fineisen is a German artist who creates vast installations that explore the tempestuous and momentary - a delicacy of bubbles, sculptures of smoke, molten rivers of milk - Fineisen intimately captures those tipping points, the precise moments when their allure becomes destructive.