Realist artists Martin Ron recently completed the largest mural ever painted in Malaysia on the streets of Penang City. The Argentinean painter worked away at the Hin Bus Depot Art Centre, creating another impressive hyper-realistic mural.
Inspired by a near fatal car crash that happened to his father, UK-based artist Ron Arad has created a series of wall-mounted car sculptures entitled “Pressed Flowers.” The series includes six flattened Fiat 500c Giardiniera, which represents his family’s first car, which was driven when the accident occurred.
Ron Ulicny’s new show “Paintures” at Spoke Art Gallery features 10 new wall mounted sculptures, Ulicny’s new body of work blurs the line between three and two dimensional arts, creating compelling studies of pattern, color and form in a multifaceted survey of works that are seemingly uncategorizable as either paintings or sculptures. Ulicny’s recontextualization of common items into new and distinct forms pushes the boundaries of his medium. By utilizing and transforming these everyday household goods, Ulicny “paints” a new future for sculpture in a presentation of large scale works that blend elements of craftsmanship with high concept. Furthermore, the show intends to jab at former art practices like that of Pop-Art with his “200 Progresso Soup Cans” and Abstract Expressionism with his “Ghost of John Spilsbury (blue)”.
“The Skull of Sarah Wincester” an older sculpture by Portland-based artist Ron Ulicny that is an interesting piece, which includes gold bullets and leaf throughout.
Ron Terada (born 1969) is a Vancouver-based artist working in various media, including painting, photography, video, sound, books, and graphic design. The majority of of his work seems to revolve around typography that deals with the love, poetry and the Canadian landscape.
Ron Mueck, we’d have to say is a sculpture living legend. So frickin’ awesome and mind-blowing what this guy has accomplished.
