Photo sculpture

One of Seoul's most successful art exports on window dressing in the uncanny valley and his collaboration with Hermès

Born in 1974 in Frankfurt, Stefanie Herr initially worked as an architect and architectural model maker. But since 2007 she's been experimenting with photographic relief sculptures to make a point...

Lisa Kokin’s work in artist’s books, mixed media installation, assemblage and sculpture is about memory, history, and social commentary. She used photographs as objects to create new ways of considering the photographic image and the results are layered, whimsical, artful, and unique. Her work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the

UK artist Matthew Stone's evocative sculptures use a combination of photography and architectural techniques. He frames the human body in geometric, 3D structures; the models in his images lie poetically contorted like the languid figures in Renaissance paintings. Stone also dabbles in performance art centered around the body, finding inspiration in the political and spiritual art of the 20th-century German Fluxus artist Joseph Beuys. Take a look at some images of his sculptures courtesy of…

Artist Justine Khamara transforms her portrait photography into intricate and wonderfully distorted cut sculptures. Khamara starts with a photo of a face or body part, and then takes a knife, or la...

Rather than considering paint as a liquid medium, San Francisco-based artist Chris Dorosz uses the traditional material as a unit of measure to form anonymous sculptural portraits. At first glance, the three-dimensional paintings read as abstract compilations of shapes, and only once the viewer looks head-on at the portrait does a human figure begin to emerge. As he writes in his artist statement, Dorosz considers the paint drop to be “a form that takes shape not from a brush or any…

"...the clumsiest narratives are often the narratives that assume prescribed movement from A to B. "

Anni Laukka is an artist from Finland who combines the play of light and darkness with elaborate sculptural pieces to produce mesmerizing shadow artwork.