Wood Sculptures

Artists Describing Their Art:

Katrina Brooks - My work focuses on the human relationship with nature. It explores our dependency on our environment and natural resources, while also illuminating our desire to remain separate and disconnected from nature in our everyday lives. Joseph Campbell's theory of separate development explains the reason why different cultures in different parts of the world, which have had no contact with each other, have such similar myths is because certain aspects of the human psyche are common to all of mankind--what is inside us and the need to understand it. These myths share one thing in common, that through death and the sacrifice of the body, the spirit is achieved and life is achieved. All welcome death because without it there cannot be life. It is what unites all living things because all return to the earth in the end. Undoubtedly it was their lack of technology that allowed our ancestors to have this deeper connection than that which we have today. Man created mythology out of a response to the environment in which he lived. Everything natural became sacred to him because he was a part of it and survival forced him to interact with it. This body of...

Tony Maez - All of my artwork reflects my love for the outdoor and my great respect for all of the wonderful creatures in it . I was born and raised in Colorado around hunting and fishing and i now reside in Alaska the Mecca of the outdoors which is a great inspiration for my artwork. ...

Vladimir Rusinov - I would like to show my new art brand:"Paintings of P.P.Rubens (17-18th century) --> The canvases of Rubens in J.M.Nattie engravings (18th century )---> Ruben's artworks in high relief images of Vladimir Rusinov (21-th century )". I became the follower and continuator voluntarily of world wide known French master of engraving J.M.Nattie (18th century ),which immortalized huge amount of canvases in his stunning engravings. Today, in honor and respect to P. P. Rubens, a new branch appeared with continuation in ART. I hope the viewers will be delighted and charmed I prefer to work with wood to create a 3D image. Also, I was growing in the farm village, where wood aroma was always around me. ...

Daniel Lombardo - My art is first informed by the human figure, its essential vertical presentation with a focus on unique but related frontal and rear views, and the gestalt of interconnected shapes that are both linear and volumetric. It is secondarily informed by totem poles of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest and other tribal cultures from around the world, with their stacked and interconnected elements that may represent key figures or concepts in their myths and legends, combined to "tell a tale" or remind of basic cultural tenets. Though my sculptures do not represent any specific events, I imagine my pieces as abstract tales both of personal events or generally themes of human experience. The pieces develop from gestural sketches based on this visual language of interconnected forms merging and diverging usually along a vertical axis. Most recently I have worked in forged steel which has fostered new gestural elements that this material inspires. ...