wood Archives — Colossal

a combination woodcut and acrylic painting of a blue fish with the face of a human woman, with blue flowers falling from its back as it floats atop the surface of the water

Matt Roussel’s Textured Woodcuts Metamorphose into Paintings

February 18, 2025

the side of an old stone barn clad in tiny wooden shingles in an undulating pattern

Wycliffe Stutchbury Configures Miniature Wood Shingles into Mesmerizing Arrangements

February 5, 2025

a collection of wooden dolls with patterned paintings on their faces

Reen Barrera’s Expressive ‘Ohlala’ Characters Evoke Emotions and Empowerment

January 23, 2025

a botanical sculpture made from glass, wood, and ceramics

Matias Karsikas Merges Diverse Techniques to Reimagine Natural Surfaces

January 22, 2025

a sculpture of a piece of cake on a plate with a knife, but the cake is sliced open and appears like a hunk of tree, with raw wood inside and bark on the outside

Uncanny Objects by Joyce Lin Blur Distinctions Between Reality and the Fantastical

January 21, 2025

a trio of vibrant embroidered sculptural flowers on wood oval panels

Nosheen Iqbal Translates Pakistani Craft Traditions into Vivid Sculptural Embroideries

January 13, 2025

a large wooden acorn rests in a forest

An Enormous Fractured Acorn Seeds Meditation Among the Trees

January 11, 2025

artist Quentin Garel working on a wooden sculpture of an ibex in his studio

Quentin Garel’s Lifelike Sculptures Transport Us to the ‘Faraway Forest’

November 7, 2024

a wood bookshelf with insect-like legs

Phillip Keefe’s Leggy Furniture Joins Traditional Woodworking and Crawling Insects

October 7, 2024

a sculptural vessel made from pencils, with the yellow paint showing inside and the outside sanded down to a more organic surface

Jessica Drenk Transforms Thousands of Pencils into Organic Vessels

September 27, 2024

a meticulously detailed wooden sculpture of a harlequin beetle with long legs and antennae on a white background

Insects Metamorphose from Bamboo in Noriyuki Saitoh’s Meticulous Sculptures

August 29, 2024

a painting on wood and black velvet of otherworldly purplish-blue flowers with bright orange stamens

Mevlana Lipp’s Sculptural Paintings on Velvet Glimpse Otherworldly Alternate Realities

August 21, 2024

Oliver Chalk Meticulously Turns Found Pieces of Timber into Bold and Voluminous Vessels

July 29, 2024

Delicately Carved Flora and Fauna by Efrain Almeida Recreate a Contemplative Brazilian Garden

July 17, 2024

a detail image in a gallery space, many river stones are suspended from the ceiling with string. the stones hang at different heights, forming a spherical shape

Before Returning Stones and Shale to Nature, Rein Kooyman Suspends Found Objects in String

July 14, 2024

the framework of a house or building is built with wire and chain.

Thirteen Prodigious Sculptures Nestle Among the Trees in ‘La Forêt Monumentale’

July 8, 2024