Doll Limb Art and Altered Barbies. The Wonderfully Weird Work of Deborah Colotti.

Deborah Colotti doll limb and barbie art

Welcome to the Weird Work of Deborah Colotti. A few of my favorite textiles, installations, assemblages and altered Barbies by artist Deborah Colotti of Sebastopol. (more…)

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Turning Text Into Art. Intricately Altered Books by Brian Dettmer.

Altered Books by Brian Dettmer
above: Brian Dettmer, Webster Withdrawn, 2010

Taking medical texts, encylopedias, dictionaries, historical texts and other reference tomes, artist Brian Dettmer creates intricate sculptures. Carving up covers, interior pages, images and words to create layers and assembling the books with great dimensionality, his works create narratives that demand the viewer’s investigation. (more…)

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The World’s Largest Crochet Sculpture & Crochetdermy by Shauna Richardson.

crochetdermy by artist Shauna Richardson

Crochetdermy by Shauna Richardson turns game hunters into knit wits. Her mounted animal heads and animal statues made of hand crocheted knits take the old tradition of taxidermy and give it a politically correct and artful spin. She creates life-sized and oversized sculptures that blend craft, realism and collecting. (more…)

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