Sculpture

Will Kurtz is a pretty cool artist, I’m surprised I haven’t seen him up here yet. Well here he is.
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Nicola Yeoman is a British installation artist that manipulates everyday surroundings, objects and sets by leaving a notion of modern escapism. She’s been featured with major publications such as American/British/Italian/German Vogue, V, New York Times Magazine and designed Jay-Z’s Blue Print 3 album cover.
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Diana Al-Hadid’s sculptures  ‘Portal to a Black Hole’ which is a description that is correct to the very inch. It’s truly as if your looking in and finding massive consecrated objects. Her monumental series also display towers, scrapers that leave an explosive impact with ethereal surroundings.
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(Photo by: Dara Scully, EK Flickr Pool Submission) Welcome, ladies n’ gentlemen, lads n’ lasses… gems n’ germs. The EMPTY KINGDOM Top 100 Artist of 2011 is here!
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Lately sculptures formed out of books seems to be progressing with us. Artist Wim Botha based out of South Africa chooses specific books reflecting human identity and immorality. “There is seldom a distinction to be drawn between the prominence of the concept and that of the medium. I work with materials central to mass...
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Tracey Emin… A vivaciously explicit British artist that vents herself through free writing, needle work, painting, sculpture, installations, photography and just about everything else. The feminist grew up in a very eccentric and extraordinary way which lead herself into an extreme cult-like icon. Best way to describe her is from her own quote, “I...
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Cildo Meireles is a veteran installation, conceptual artist from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. A lot of his work expresses resistance to political oppression in his native land. Majority of his sculptures are very large scale, which allows the audience to interact with his subject.
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Kevin Cyr is a Brooklyn based artist that’s originally known for his diverse vehicle illustrations. In the past couple years he’s taken it to a new hands on level, fusing no emission transportation with man power. Conceptual, functional and with a new sense of freedom.
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2010 Top 100 artist Monica Cook paints so awesome but she does everything else awesome as well.  Here are some of her works on paper, which seem to show much more of the satire in her work.
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Artist Joe Black uses anything small to create his large-scale mixed media pieces. For his latest piece, entitled “Made in China”, Black uses more than 5500 toy soldiers to create a portrait piece of a Chinese soldier boy taken by photographer Robert Capa (the image was used on the front cover of LIFE magazine,...
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Seattle based sculptor Joel Morrison creates everyday objects in a twisted juxtaposition. With Jeff Koon’s reflective approach, he uses stainless steel to craft radical modern icons to Greek sculptures.
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Santani is an artist hailing from Russia. Part Furby, part Mogwai from the movie Gremlims…kinda gremlim-ish too actually…anyways, Santani creates these cutesy, furry, a-face-that-only-a-mother-could-love creatures for all of us to enjoy. If you want one of Santani’s lovable creations, hit him up on his artist page!
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Elisabeth Higgins O’Connor is a Sacramento, CA native that breathes life into monstrous creatures that would make the furry outcasts of ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ look like mundane conformists. Her homemade series ‘Dreadful Sorry Clementine’ stand at 6 to 8 feet by stitching textiles, linens, carpet, newspaper, and a whole mess of cardboard....
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Marc Bijl is a Berlin based artist that builds structures around social anarchy and nihilistic themes. Many of his pieces are installed in public spaces, which allows him to share his personal perception of the world. Tim Tebow probably wouldn’t approve of Mr. Marc’s work.
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Peter Fuss is an artist who creates unique billboard pieces that attempts to bring attention and conversation to social and political issues of a broad spectrum.
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Bernardi Roig is a sculptor that physically casts a tainted society, whom walk the dark and thin edges of life. His sad and melancholic themes are overwhelmed by a metaphor of blinding lights. The artist’s journey in seeking truth ends up revealing the beauty in our loss of self identity… Bernardi Roig, this is...
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Italian based company The Good Machinery’s collection of flamboyant animal figurines. Handmade crafty designs that would make Noah’s ark an out of the world trip. More inter­est­ing cush­ions, screen­prints and art objects hosted by Etsy.
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EK just might hit up Black Crow Studios (BCS) to redo one or more of our office rooms. BCS creates custom wallpaper that “pushes the traditional idea of wallpaper into the realm of Art.” Today, we showcase BCS’ “Watercolor Wallpaper” series which pretty much speaks for itself.
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Argentinean artist Adrián Villar Rojas creates sculptures that literally makes you feel other abstract objects from a distant planet. His larger than life series ‘The Murderer of your Heritage’ was represented in the 54th Venice Biennale. His team of builders, engineers and other sculptors molded the Murderers with clay, cement, burlap and wood.
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