The Tastemakers Society

Stephanie Metz is a sculptor but she doesn’t use metal, wood, clay or even cardboard, nope she uses wool. Metz creates sculptors of animals, humans and even selective breaded animals all made from felted organic wool. And she does all this using a handheld felting needle, no machine and only on occasions does she use a small wire to help with rigidity for the sculptors to be self-supporting.

On the corner of 6th and Howard St. in San Francisco you will see a building that looks as if there are many arguments going on inside or people trying to escape it. With the help of 100 volunteers in 1997 Brian Goggin created “Defenestration” a sculptural exhibition/experiment using a building as its main infrastructure. Couches, tables, clocks, lamps, chairs, a refrigerator and much more all hang from windows or outer walls of the building. The building is still as is today as it was 11 years ago and is a good glimpse in the art past and the art future, because as the art world changes one thing seems to remain intact, good art is good art, in which the viewer stops, thinks, scratches head, and ponders some more before moving on.

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That’s made entirely out of wood, amazing right? Mike Rea uses wood as his main medium of art, creating everything from scuba gear to machine guns all carved out of wood. He uses fiction as a focal point for inspiration when creating his work, and he has no problem making his creations life size or larger to give you the full effect. I love his ‘gun’ piece, go to his website, click the ‘war’ tab and look for ‘gun’ and you’ll see what I’m talking about, super detailed, he even made wood shell casings to give it even more authenticity.

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For the Goodwood Festival of Speed last week in England designer Gerry Judah commissioned by non other than Land Rover, put actual Land Rover SUV’s ontop of a 34 meter high sculpted frame. The Rovers were welded onto the frame in various spots using 4890 bolts (not like you really care about the bolt count, but I did). So another car company is stepping up and branching into ways to show brand image beyond car ads, and again no one wants to come over to the USA and put on any of these type of displays, I blame everything on Richard Simmons.

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Jeff Koons is one of my favorite artist, his over the top works are just mind boggling. It’s just something about huge, gigantic art pieces or sculptors that I love and can’t get enough of and koons is one of those artist who know how to make large beautiful. But my love for koons isn’t shared by just me and some small circle, his work is so appreciated that a koons sculptor goes for millions, I mean multiple millions. Take for instance his ‘Blue Diamond’ sold recently at a christies auction for 11.8 million, just got to love the art world and it’s over pricing system. But I still love your work Jeff even if it’s a tad over priced. Â