Maskull Lasserre. Artist. Montreal.

Maskull Lasserre was born in Canada, 1978, and spent his early childhood in South Africa. He has a BFA from Mount Allison University (Visual Art and Philosophy), and an MFA from Concordia University (Sculpture).
Current and Upcoming Exhibitions:
Swept Away: Museum of Arts and Design, New York, February 7th - August 12th, 2012
Paperless: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, NC, April 12 - September 9, 2012
MASKULLLASSERRE.COM

Patrick Dougherty. Sculptor. North Carolina.

Filmed by Gary Tyler Mcleod & Austin Will.










Combining his carpentry skills with his love of nature, Patrick Dougherty utilizes primitive techniques of building to experiment with tree saplings as construction material. Since beginning in 1980, Patrick has left his mark with over two hundred massive sculptures all over the world. Fantastical.
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Jason Middlebrook. Artist. Michigander. NY.

acrylic on beech wood plank.






acrylic on maple plank.


acrylic and spray paint on panel.




furniture.
jasonmiddlebrook.com

Chris Burden's Metropolis II.

Chris Burden took 4 years to build this incredible kinetic mini highway city, which will find a home at the LA Country Museum of Art. Chris has designed the city to circulates 1,100 Hot Wheels cars without crashes-impressive.

NEW work by Kyle Bean. Brighton.

portraits made from pencil shavings. For the contributors page of Wallpaper* Handmade 2011.
see previous post on Kyle here and here.
kylebean.co.uk

Noritamy Jewelry. By Tammar and Elinor. Tel Aviv.

noritamy.com

Casualties of War. Dorothy Collective. Manchester.

Plastic moulded figurines with bases. 7cm high.
The hell of war comes home. In July 2009 Colorado Springs Gazettea published a two-part series entitled “Casualties of War”. The articles focused on a single battalion based at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, who since returning from duty in Iraq had been involved in brawls, beatings, rapes, drunk driving, drug deals, domestic violence, shootings, stabbings, kidnapping and suicides. Returning soldiers were committing murder at a rate 20 times greater than other young American males. A seperate investiagtion into the high suicide rate among veterans published in the New York Times in October 2010 revealed that three times as many California veterans and active service members were dying soon after returning home than those being killed in Iraq and Afghanistan combined. We hear little about the personal hell soldiers live through after returning home. -wearedorothy.com
Heavy. Genius.