sculpture
This tag marks three dimensional artwork, pieces shaped from stone, metal, wood, clay, or other materials into a physical form that occupies real space rather than sitting flat on a surface. Sculpture has to work from every angle, which adds a layer of difficulty painting and drawing don’t have to deal with. Use this tag to browse sculptural work broadly across the site, from traditional carving and casting to more experimental contemporary approaches to three dimensional form.
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How to Visit an Art Museum: A Better Way to Look at Paintings and Sculpture
A better way to visit an art museum: how long to spend on a painting, why less is more, and simple ways to look more closely.
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How to Get Your Art Into Galleries: A Practical Guide for Painters, Sculptors, and Photographers
A practical guide to getting your art into a gallery: building a portfolio, finding the right galleries, making first contact, and representation.
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J.K. Brown
J.K. Brown is a British sculptor who turns scrap metal gathered from beaches and woodland into lifelike, graceful animal forms. Trained in both painting and metal casting, he has exhibited internationally alongside major European artists, giving forgotten scraps a second life.
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Joel Sullivan
Joel Sullivan is a Canadian sculptor who traded pencil and paper for welded steel after a course changed his path. He founded Iron Designs, turning his childhood love of comics and anatomy into raw, half human, half machine metal figures.
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Heather Jansch
Heather Jansch was a British sculptor best known for her driftwood horses, monumental pieces so alive with movement they seemed to breathe. Her Eden Horse became a signature work, and after she passed in 2021, Devon Open Studios created an annual award in her honor.
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Kumi Yamashita
Kumi Yamashita is a Japanese born artist based in New York who builds portraits from light and shadow, using everyday materials arranged around a single light source. Her Constellation series forms faces from one unbroken thread wound around thousands of pins, and her work has shown at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.
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Terry Allen
Terry Allen is an American artist from Wichita, Kansas, who works in sculpture, music, and performance all at once, often using scrap metal and old car parts. He is also a country singer, and his songs tell the same restless, American West stories as his sculptures.
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Jamie Salmon
Jamie Salmon is a British sculptor based in Vancouver who makes silicone and resin figures so lifelike that people expect them to blink. He includes every wrinkle and stray hair on purpose, turning ordinary human imperfection into something you cannot stop staring at.
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Luo Li Rong
Luo Li Rong is a Chinese sculptor born in Hunan in 1980 who trained at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing before settling in Europe. She casts life size bronze figures of women in motion, blending Chinese tradition with Renaissance and Baroque technique, and now runs her own foundry in Bologna, Italy.
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Mondongo
Mondongo is an Argentine art collective founded in 1999 in Buenos Aires by Juliana Laffitte, Manuel Mendanha, and Agustina Picasso. They build portraits and social scenes out of unusual materials like plasticine, thread, glass, and food, best known for the record-setting installation “Argentina (paisajes).”
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Claes Oldenburg
Claes Oldenburg was a Swedish American sculptor born in 1929 in Stockholm, famous for turning everyday objects like clothespins and ice cream cones into giant, playful public sculptures. He died in 2022, leaving landmark works such as Spoonbridge and Cherry and Dropped Cone around the world.
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Anne Truitt
Anne Truitt was an American artist born in 1921 in Baltimore, known for tall wooden sculptures built up with dozens of thin, hand painted layers of color. She died in 2004, and pieces like A Wall for Apricots still stand like quiet, calm sentinels in a room.
