Awesome Sculptures

For his River Collection, furniture maker Greg Klassen took discarded wood and then cut blue glass by hand to make them fit the contours of the wood. The resulting tables and sculptures look like rivers or lakes.

Have you ever looked at a cloud and imagined it to be something else? Gilbert Legrand does that to everyday objects. With a bit of modification and some clever painting, Gilbert creates sculptures that are a joy to behold.

Designed by Kate Brown, this amazing 8.5-foot-tall sculptural outdoor chair provides a relaxing, curved seating area that can spin 360 degrees. An example of the chair is on display at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West in Scottsdale, AZ.

Loren Stump makes murrine – glass artwork made by layering different colors of molten glass and then stretching them into a rod. When the rod cools, the intended pattern will be seen in the rod’s cross section.

Believe it or not, that’s not a photograph of Heath Ledger as Joker. It’s a wax sculpture of the late actor made by self-taught sculptor Bobby Causey, who specializes in making realistic celebrity sculptures. More here.

Artist Pavel Sinev creates incredible sculptures using cables, tubing and wire, all held together with carefully placed cable ties. We know what we’re going to try and do this weekend… right after we head to the Home Depot.

Gregory Halili’s Skull Series consists of detailed bas-relief skulls. Gregory uses 10″ to 12″ mother of pearl shells and oil pigment to make the sculptures. You can see more on his Facebook page and YouTube channel.

Artist Takeshi Murata created this mind-bending illusion which appears to be a molten sphere of metal that is constantly flowing. The effect is based on a zoetrope, using strobe lights and synchronized still images. Read more here.

Jessica Harrison’s Flash is a series of porcelain figurines of women in ball gowns with tattoos on their exposed skin. If you think that’s hardcore, check out her earlier work. Flash is currently on display at Galerie L.J.

Hoang Tran creates detailed miniature sculptures by carving crayons. He often add extra colors to a piece by melting other crayons. He also accepts custom orders. You can see more of his work on his blog.

Katharine Morling specializes in creating sculptures that look like tangible ink sketches. She uses clay and porcelain to sculpt and then paints and traces their outline with black stain to create the illusion.

You may recall brain-obsessed sculptor Emilio Garcia from his Jumping Brain collectibles. Now he’s moved up to making skull-shaped brains. Limited edition white, blue and (Red Skull’s wiser older brother) pink brains are available now.

More stunning art by Korean sculptor Seung Mo Park and his ongoing series created by carefully layering metal wires and meshes. The portraits in particular are remarkable. We wonder if he’s ever considered colored wires?

(Spoilers, Gore) Mick Minogue made action-figure style woodcuts of some of the battered characters from George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire. Watch out for more at the Ltd. Gallery in Seattle or on Mick’s Facebook page.

These mind-bending wooden sculptures by artist Erik Åberg can be expanded, contracted and manipulated into various shapes thanks some sort of ingenious hinge mechanisms. We want miniature versions for our desktops. Now.

Calvin Seibert recently shared some of the sandcastles he made on the beaches of Hawaii. As with his previous sandcastles, Calvin made structures that blur the line between organic and man-made.

Forensic artist and Crystal Head Vodka fan Nigel used his skills to imagine what the spirit’s trademark skull bottle would look like if it had flesh and skin. The bottle turned out to be an ordinary guy. With glass teeth.

Inspired by the fruit and vegetable paintings of Guiseppe Archimboldo, artist Freya Jobbins creates amazing sculptures using recycled toys and doll parts. See more of her incredible works on her Facebook page.

Artist Jitish Kallat used resin, paint and steel to make what appear to be fossils of vehicle-shaped monsters. According to Designboom, Kallat is referencing his own photographs of vehicles that had been set on fire during riots.

Artist Yuken Teruya is a master at cutting intricate paper shapes. For his latest exhibition Notice – Forest Teruya cut tree shapes out of cheap paper bags and then assembled the trees inside of the bags to a dramatic effect.

Gilles Azzaro used a desktop 3D printer to make this voice print of a portion of President Obama’s 2013 inauguration speech about a new industrial revolution. Regardless of the audio, the sculpture looking like a cool alien landscape.

The latest iteration of Forever Bicycles by artist and activist Ai Weiwei was made using 3000 bikes stacked side by side. The trippy installation was part of Toronto’s La Nuit Blanche art festival and will stay up until Oct. 27th.

Hong Kong-based sculptor Johnson Tsang loves to push the limits of ceramic art. One of his latest pieces is A Painful Pot, an incredible vase being constricted by a dragon. You can see work in progress shots on his website.