Sculptures made from Dripped Paint

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If you walk around Chris Dorosz‘s art installations it will appear like his work is abstract, however, at a specific angle, you are able to see human figures formed by acrylic paint drips on plastic rods.

Notes from the artist’s statement:

Out of material discovery I began to regard the primacy of the paint drop, a form that takes shape not from a brush or any human-made implement or gesture, but purely from its own viscosity and the air it falls through, as analogous to the building blocks that make up the human body (DNA) or even its mimetic representation (the pixel). With this in mind I’ve been working towards creating a narrative of materials as the groundwork to explore changing ideas of human physicality.

Chen Chen’s Designs

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Brooklyn based industrial designer Chen Chen has a very interesting point of view. I have a selected a few of his works here which all touch on deconstruction, though in a very abstract form. I was first drawn to his work when I saw his Cold Cut Coasters (featured above and below). In this project Chen Chen collaborated with Kai Tsien-Williams using various materials made into a log form, which they cut into unique cross sections. Pretty Stunning result (and process)!

The Swell Hanging Vase illustrates the interaction between two materials. To create his Swell Vases, Brooklyn artist Chen Chen wraps a netted fabric bag around a glass vessel and injects expanding polyurethane foam into the bag. The foam tries to expand outward while the net tries to contain it; the final form is determined by this tension. Available for retail here.

“Metamorphic Rock” Bookend, 2011
Various stones embedded in cement. Available for retail here.