Stacey Lee Webber is a Philadelphia based artist who finds unique ways to recontextualize objects from blue collar neighborhoods.  Webber’s sculptures embody a refined aesthetic and challenge the conventional possibilities of everyday materials.  Through her investigations, Webber’ celebrates working class families which make up the heart of American culture.

More sculpture after the jump.

Taras Lesko’s full scale model of an Audi A7 is the largest papercraft sculpture of its kind. It is also spot on. (via TWBE).

Humans and animals are the central themes of ceramicist Kate MacDowell’s sculpture. Sometimes the two intertwine. Sometimes the sculptures form larger narratives – for instance she’s produced an amazing series that relates to bird hunting. And, at other times, the sculpture simply causes a bit of mental unrest.

Large or small, with baseball bat or pencil as base, Peter Schuyff’s sculpture succeeds in tantalizing form. They twist and turn, they showcase the grain of the wood, they are, essentially, excellent.

Look at a whole bunch more sculpture after the jump.

News from OHWOW -

OHWOW is pleased to announce a solo presentation of David Benjamin Sherry’s recent work that studies concepts of geometry, science, color, materiality, and the course of change. This exhibition, titled Form Forming Formation, includes both traditional color prints and photographic collage work. Through the artist’s analog approach to producing images, he examines aspects of arrangement and the visual results of alchemical and light analysis.

With his photographically based constructions (Solar System In Blood System, 2011), Sherry explores specified geometric formations, based on the mathematical design of our planet and solar system. Also referencing crop circle phenomenon, these rectilinear configurations aim to address the varied changes Earth undergoes. The work also serves to chronicle this moment in history, and to raise awareness of the natural world around us, through a visual combination of minimal form and complex pattern.

Sherry’s series of highly saturated chromogenic prints, depicting expressive rock-like structures, continue the dialogue between object and interpretation. Sculptures painstakingly created over time, then later photographed as in Royal Ruin Ultramarine Umbilical Fiend Fallen Cobalt Core, 2011, provoke an explanation of how and why these seemingly figurative forms evolved into abstracted artifacts, and are now frozen in a moment. The anthropomorphic imagery deals with ideas of evolution and shift – the systematic process of alteration and the aesthetic conclusion of transformation.

These contrasting bodies of work create a tension between each other, while they simultaneously begin to draw parallels between Earth’s properties and human existence. Sherry not only uses photography as a documentation of fact, but also as an expression of an unknown future. Each monochromatic image is then both an examination and a certainty, questioning the genesis of how thoughts become reality and illustrating the result of that action into form.

David Benjamin Sherry is a New York-based artist, with a graduate degree from Yale University. This is his first solo exhibition with OHWOW. His work is shown nationally and abroad, including recent exhibitions at The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO; Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; and PS1/MOMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.

OHWOW
937 North La Cienega
Los Angeles, CA

Runs April 30 to May 27, 2011.

Examples from the exhibition follow.

Opening on May 7, 2011, New Masters focuses on today’s leading contemporary artists and their approach to the classical figure.  These exceptional artists are considered the “New Masters” of today’s figure painters, printers and sculptors, invoking the feeling of the “Old Master’s” technical virtuosity with a contemporary approach. The exhibition runs through June 4, 2011 at SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS in Los Angeles.

Mary Jane Ansell, Sean Cheetham, Ron English, Benjamin Bryce Kelly, Miles ‘Mac’ MacGregor, Ann Marshall, Stephen Wright, and Jonathan Yeo are featured.

SUBLIMINAL PROJECTS
1331 W Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90026

Above: Mary Jane Ansell, Bind I Etching, 32 x 32 cm.

More work from New Masters after the jump.

Urs Fischer has installed a giant bronze bear in New York at Park Avenue Plaza. Arrested Motion got some snaps of the colorful installation, with great perspective of the scale.

More looks follow.

Finnish artist Jiri Geller has made a career of subverting popular culture icons. These skulls, following the form of Donald Duck, are no exception. Geller’s dressed some in chav favorite Burberry, while others offer direct religious connection. (via MashKulture).

More Donald Duck Skull Sculptures after the jump.

Till the Break of Dawn, new works by New York-based artist Karlos Carcamo, opens on April 7, 2011 at Dean Project.

Karlos Cárcamo will present a new series of paintings, sculptures, and mixed media collages that continue his on-going exploration of urban culture, its history, and the social-dynamic impact it has on all aspects of mainstream popular culture.

Adopting a conceptual process similar to the constructed nature found in hip hop music. Cárcamo incorporates its working methodology as a tool to appropriate or “sample” from, a broad spectrum of art historical sources that include, hard-edge painting, constructivism, geometric abstraction, and neo-concrete art. Cárcamo’s unique blend of work straddle the line between form and content while also paying homage to a diverse group of people that include artists Lygia Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, and Kurt Scwhitters, musician James Brown, The Incredible Bango Band and early graffiti pioneers, Pistol 1, Stan 153, Stay High and Flint 707.

The exhibition will run through May 14, 2011.

DEAN PROJECT
511 West 25th Street, 2nd floor
New York, NY 10001

Further preview after the jump.

Here’s a quick look at some highlights (via Trendland) of Art Paris 2011. Some themes will be apparent, as will an emphasis on the heavy hitters.

Much more after the jump.