Adrian Piper

In her younger years, still in high school, she created paintings that were discovered later on in life and became known works. For instance "Alice Down the Rabbit Hole". They are considered Adrian's LSD paintings. She began to understand the principle of Conceptual art. The media she chooses to use is painting, sculpture, drawing, performance, video, installation, sound works and photo documentation.
    Having it being her first generation as a conceptual artists she began to introduce herself into yoga and meditation. This was something she wanted to achieve personally. Her goal was to explore her consciousness, perception, and infinite permutation using maps, diagrams, photographs, and descriptive language. After this she went onto exploring Minimalism.
"Alice Down the Rabbit Hole" created on canvas board.

"Art for the Artworld Surface Pattern"created in 1976. 152.4 x 152.4 x 213.3 cm

"Self Portrat Exaggerating My Negroid Features" created in 1981. Pencil on Paper.

Tracey Emin

       Tracey as a variety of skills such as mono prints, painting, photography, fabric, neon lights, found objects, installations, films, books and sculpture. She didn't really become known by the public until she ended up on television in 1997. She appeared on T.V. pretending to be drunk. Swearing and insulting panel members. Her next big piece is titled "My Bed". This piece included sheets that were stained yellow on certain parts. There were items on the floor such as used condoms, cigarette packs that were empty and a pair of slippers.

"My Bed"

Duane Hanson

    Duane Hanson is famously known for his realistic works of people. These works of people were usually made out of the materials that include, polyester resin, fiberglass, Bondo and bronze. In the beginning Duane Hanson would cast his figures in fiberglass and vinyl.  He would tend to create scenes or tableaux that focused on brutal and violent subjects.
    For example "Hanson's Abortion" which was created in 1966 and was thought about after the horrors of a backroom procedure. All of his works are casted from actual people , where were sculpted out of fiberglass and then painted them to make their skin look detailed and realistic. Duane then would cloth these subjects and then arrange them in the way he finds appropriate. He varies his scale in size with his sculptures varying from realistic human size to sculptures that are bigger then a human subject. With the larger ones he wanted to inhabit the audience and viewers space, to make them feel close.
"Hanson's Abortion"



"Queeni II"



"Man on a Bench"

Ron Mueck

    Ron Mueck is known for is realistic human subjects.Ron began to make photo realistic props and animatronics for advertising. Ron's earlier works were created from fiberglass. Then began to use silicone due to its extreme flexibility and is easier to shaping the human body.  His sculptures were designed sculptures were highly detailed to be photographed. Ron Mueck wanted to create realistic sculptures that look perfect from all angles. In 1996 Ron Mueck had made the decision to start working in fine art, while working with his mother-in-law.
    "Dead Dad" was created out of silicone and mixed media sculpture of the corpse of his father shrunk about 2/3 of its scale. With this finished product he decided to use his own hair. All of Mueck's sculptures have been focused on the detail of the human body. The only difference is the scale of the sculpture. The scale size is incredibly large.

"Mask Two"

"Big Man"

Ernesto Neto

    People have began do describe Neto's work as beyond abstract minimalism. Neto tends to use soft natural and organic shapes. He takes these forms and puts them in an environment where they look inviting. The scale he works with includes large installations that are usually soft, and biomorphic. His works invite the audience and viewer's to touch, poke, and even sometimes walk on or through. He creates an environment that is somewhat comforting for the viewer and allows viewers to sometimes crawl and put their bodies through his works. They are usually made white and of stretchy like material. Such thin materials as nylon and cotton. He then will take styrofoam pellets and stuff them. On occasion he would add in aromatic spices.

Jeff Koons

    This contemporary artist is has become one of the most well known artists of the 20th century. He is also known for his reproductions of balloon animals produced from stainless steel with a mirror finished surface. His work has sold for the highest price sold for a work. The art is titled " Ballon Flower". There are many different views on how people feel about this artist. Some enjoy his work others laugh at it. He ended up setting up a factory where he hired over 30 assistants that helped reproduced his ideas faster. Each assistant was assigned a differed aspect of producing Koons works.
    Jeff Koons early works came in the form of conceptual sculpture. An example of this is the Equilibrium series that was created in 1985. He has had photos taken and put into advertisements for an international art magazine. From here he began to sculpt his pieces larger and larger. Other materials he would use include porcelain. Another famous works of Jeff Koons is "Puppy". This work was commissioned in 1992 for an art gallery exhibition is Germany. "Puppy" is 43 ft tall and covered in a variety of flowers on a steel structure.
"Balloon Flower"

"Puppy"

"Balloon Dog"

Evelyn Floret

Evelyn Floret begins her work with creating her sculpture out of clay. The piece she sculpted comes from a real setting. Then casts her pieces in bronze. She has also used other materials for sculpting such as marble.  Evelyn specializes in sculpture, bronze, torsos, clay and photography. She is actually a distinguished editorial photographer and has been published in people, Sports Illustrated, Time, Fortune and Avenue magazines. She has been awarded many awards and is very well known.

"Bronze Sculpture"
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"Goddess"

" Hydrocal Relief"

Peggy Detmers

    Due to the environment Peggy was, she was able to become inspired by nature. Detmer's Combines creativity, scientific training, and observation to create fine realistic sculpture, as well as oil paintings. Having scientific training Peggy was able to bring her bronze to life while in her creative process. She has also discovered a special study of what elements may give and impression to the living form. She incorporates each of these elements into all of her work. During her process of being an artist she has grown to form relationships with animas. She creates an attachment to each animal and then puts that energy into her sculpture she creates. Currently Peggy is continuing to use her scientific training to depict her next subject matter in her chosen medium.
    "Tatanka: Story of the Bison" is a bronze statue. This work was commissioned in the early 1990's with planning on using it as the main point for The Dunbar, a Resort. It is a 17-piece set that took 6 years to sculpt.

"Old Blue"

Jess Dair

    Jess Davila is a self taught artist. Jess varies his sculptures in size from miniature to monumental. His materials that he uses include, sandstone, alabaster, marble or limestone. His main focus was to explore a unique contemporary style. Davilla was inspired by the shape, color and texture of various stone mediums. Other inspiration comes from his personal experiences and the beauty he sees in all of his surroundings. The use of his various types of stone invoke strong emotions from his audience that views his works. Everything is intentional including the natural patterns of the stone he chose to the finished piece. Jess also captures his sculpture in bronze and uses a process that involves the "Lost Wax" method. 

    His other goal was to help inspired other people to find their hidden artist talents, which was a create inspiration. This is the best part because he shares the fruits of his talent and gives back to the place where he came from. 

"Buffalo"

"Bear"

"Eagle"

Jean-Guy Dallaire

    Jean is currently a sculpture and a photographer. His works are mainly abstract. After being a photographer for so long he decided to begin a career in sculpting. His sculpting involved making little bronze statues. Even though jean was self taught he has been in many exhibitions. He enjoys focusing on forms and of images of the clouds above. Not only the clouds but pebbles that have been washed out by water from the seashore. For jean the clouds are all the symbolic beauty he needs.
    "Flame" was created in the year 1980. This piece was created from bronze. The dimensions are 12h x 4 1/4w x 4 d inches. It is currently in an auction.

Reclining Figure "Abstract No. 21"

Carol Cunningham

Began observing animals when she was young and continued doing it throughout her life. Mostly observing horses, she turned it into a talent that she loves. Carol's main goals were to have an understanding for the creature in their natural habitat. Carol's main pieces and works have usually been life-size but she also produces smaller pieces as well. The majority of her work portrays the light-hearted side to life that she has discerned in animals. Sometime she also includes people in to her sculptures. The reason for this is to shows the relationship people have with animals. 

"Check Up"

"First Day"

That's My Baby"

Itzik Ben Sh alom

    Itzik works focus on the human emotions. He usually makes them into two separate pieces that are move able. These separate pieces represent the male and female. He has also set up a foundry for a 4000 year old "Lost Wax" method for casting sculptures. He says his own work is has to work within the psyche of alienation. He is focusing on the modern era and how the majority involves electronic media. We communicate more with electronic media then say other humans. His main goal in his works is to let his audience understand and realize there is more to this life.

    "Facing Couple" is currently located at The college of Arts and sciences Pine Grove walkway. It was donated to the school. This work was first casted in bronze. The reason for this is because it evokes the basic need for interaction and to touch. This work creates juxtaposition with the background of the pine trees.

"Facing Couple" 

"Intimacy Two" created out of Bronze and is 20".

"Two as One"

Christine Beardwood

    For the past ten years Christine's main medium has been casting bronze sculptures. Her main focus and theme of her works has included  figurative and portrait sculpture. The best way to describe Christine Beardwood's work is fluid movement, expression and detail. Her sculptures are very realistic and bring you up close to look at the detail of the portrait. Her goal is to capture the personality, individual mannerisms, expressions, and their style of dress. She is able to capture all of her family members and friends as if they are there in the room.
"Gabrielle" she is currently limited edition and materials are clay for bronze. The height is 59".



"Claret"

Devotion

Thom Atkins

    Began working with stained glass and making both 2d and 3d pieces. Atkins has learned metal smithing, welding, and bronze casting. His main medium he enjoyed using is bronze. Thom Atkins has been interested in beads for the last 30 years. He has also created his own jewelry, embroidered, and has added beads to some of his bronze sculptures. Atkins's has created embellished quilts that include his beads. The beads are embedded into the surface of the quilt and their application does the quilting. His canvas is the quilt and his and his beads are his texture.
    Thom's sculptures represent and deal with aspects of the human life and interaction.

"Monterey Bay" created in 2008. Materials include silk, glass and metal beads.



"Global Warning"

"Awakening"

Cai Guo-Qiang

    As a an artist who comes from the culture of china, he brings a lot of new and fresh ideas to the artist world. His ideas include materials, symbols, narritives, traditions, fung Shui, chinese medicine and philosophy. His main idea is to take explosions and make them beautiful. In a lot of Warren's works he uses gunpowder and focuses on its power of combustion. Randall Warren uses this action of the gunpowder to represent how man and nature get along and also how man and man get a long, if they do at all. His desires with his work involve letting his audience and views see how tigers are hunted. He also wanted to show the pain the this animal feels and is going through with being killed.
    In Stage one there is a total of nine cars that are suspended in mid air across a room that is 300 ft long. Coming from all the cars include transparent rods that are multicolored and glamorous. He has sad to capture and explosive moment that seems can only happen in a dream. Cai main goal is to get his audience to look more at what happens in harmful situations. ALong with religious conflict, violence and beauty.

"Inopportune" Stage one. created in 2004.


"Inopportune" Stage two. created in 2004.


"Light Cycle"

June Leaf

    June leaf was one of the few women who actually helped lead the way for other female artists. He art was unique and different from the other artists at the time.
    "Man as Gutter Spout" was created in 2007. Materials are tin. Its height is 16.5 X 14.5w X 11d in inches. This piece of work draws towards a more whimsy and wretchedness look about it. From observation it looks as if he is going to jump off of whatever he is standing on. But it makes one wonder what he is going to jump into. Solid ground or water?
"Man as Gutter Spout"



Figures on a Raft, 2008-10, Mixed Media, 53h x 64w in.

Sandy Skoglund

    Sandy's works mainly were based on surrealists images and turned into a live set also known as a tableaux. Skogland would then take the time to select different objects to place on the sets, including young children. Sandy then would add actors or extras and take photographs. These works usually include a monochromatic scheme or contrasting colors. Sandy's photos would tend to open up interchange between the artificial and the natural.
    Later on in life she focused her time around filmmaking, printmaking, and multimedia art. She them titled herself as a conceptual artist and began introducing herself to the world of photography. The reason she wanted to achieve photography was so she could document her life as an artist. She enjoyed working with repetition within her photos.


"The Power of Imagination"

"Revenge"                                                                                        




"Radioactive Cats"

Marc Quinn

   Quinn began to emerge into the Art world in 1990. Marc Quinn's work mainly sculpture has to do with the distant relationship we have with our bodies. But he also does, paintings, prints and drawings.  A lot of his works focus on the anatomy of the body including our DNA. After a while Marc Quinn begins to design and make his own accessories and clothes. He has also commission his own line that involves scarves, T-shirts, white gold jewelry and they are all limited edition. Key themes in Quinn's works include genetic modification and hybridism.
      The "Self" is a self portrait of Marc Quinn. This piece of work is very famous in the art world.   Marc Quinn has taken 4.5 liters of his blood to use to sculpt this head. He had taken a process which lasted over 5 months. This work is always refrigerated reminding the audience and the view of the existence it is in.
"Self"


"Alison Lapper"

"Buck and Allanah"


Scarf Design and made by Marc Quinn

Jason Rhoades

         Jason Rhoades is a unique artist that engages installations that has a them of finding slang words that focuses on the female genitalia.  The majority of his works were made into large scale. Rhoades creates these words into black lights, then conceal in neon colors. He is considered to be taboo since he holds ceremonies where he would invite special celebrities and other guests. They would all come up with different "slang words"  Alot of his other works still included the black light and leon colors but were more of a sculpture that focuses on every day materials. His main goal is to create and hold process and functionality. 


   This was installed in the Rosamund Felson Gallery. This is where Jason Rhoades was found presenting his first art exhibition. This work was created to resemble cheap furniture. But on the side there are photos of that artist shopping at a furniture store. 


"Swedish Erotica & Fiero Parts #13"

"Untitled" created in 2004. Made from Aluminum tubes, and neon lights.
500X500X500cm

 "The World with the Unpainted Donkey"

Richard Serra

        In Richard Serra's earlier artists years, he focused on making abstract art. Richard Serra emphasized his work based on sculpture. The majority of his works were made out of materials such as, lead and iron. Many of his works are made out of sheets of lead or iron and are so heavy that they can stand completely by themselves. Serra's works are usually quite larger than the audience viewings them. This makes the audience want to wall around the piece itself. Serra thought out specific spots for these works to be placed. Such as Urban or Architectural landscape. His main point that goes along with Serra's works he says is time and memory. These large sculptures help spark our memory perception. 
         The structure "Spheres in Terminal 1 Pier F at Toronto YYZ Airport" was originally put up San Francisco campus. Each plate is 50Ft long. This sculpture weighs 160 tons and has been here since 2005
"Spheres in Terminal 1 Pier F at Toronto YYZ Airport"

"Tilted Arc"  Stands 3.5 meters high.



"The Matter of Time" Created in 2005.