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Beautiful tracing paper and wheat paste sculptures by San Francisco based artist Mary Button Durell. Here is a bit about the construction method from her artist statement: “At first glance these pieces appear to be built onto a rigid wire frame, however, the process is much more organic and the structure is created from my own hand building.  Individual cells or cones that comprise most of the pieces are first formed over molds of various shapes and sizes and then joined together using wheat paste cell by cell.  Additional layers of paper and paste are then added for strength and reinforcement which creates the net-like structure around the individual cells.”

From top down, left to right red lantern / monkey / year of the snake / reunion dinner

The haunting adolescent portraiture from the very talented Gottfried Helnwein 

We profiled Brendan Tang’s fantastic mecha-infused vases back in Hi-Fructose Vol.6 and are happy to see that Tang is still smashing cultural perspectives with his sculptures, creating something other-worldly or as described in his artist statement: “Manga Ormolu enters the dialogue on contemporary culture, technology, and globalization through a fabricated relationship between ceramic tradition (using the form of Chinese Ming dynasty vessels) and techno-Pop Art.” Rock on Brendan.