beautiful disasters

A friend of mine recently asked if I knew of any interesting artists who work with alternative media to create organic sculptures (she teaches 3D Design at a local college). I gave her a few names, before I remembered Chicago-based artist Rachel Niffenegger who I found via Polaroid Cupcake in this post from last spring. Niffenegger's mixed media works are beautifully abstract. I love the way she crafts such materials as fabric, wood and string into these organic, almost pulsating sculptures.

give me some lip

David Adey's installation pieces crafted using lips cut from fashion mags are absolutely stunning. I wish I could see them in person.

paper trail

These cut paper configurations by Seattle artist Katy Stone have me wishing I had her ability and ambition. Her pieces are so intricately beautiful and colorfully kaleidoscopic.

beautifully bizarre

These installations and illustrations of artist Gary Card have be absolutely captivated. He seems to have so many different stylistic facets to his work, from his quilted snail window installation for TopShop to his comically odd sketches. (He even does high fashion set design and prop work.) Visit him here to view all of his work.