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Carpenter’s work is on view in three concurrent exhibitions opening in January in Pennsylvania.
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‘What the Hands Remember to Hear’ opens next month at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut.
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“I use clay as one uses a diary: to record the feelings of daily life and the things that surround me,” Chastagner tells Colossal.
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Fahler’s slouched “flag” is one of a number of recent stained glass sculptures on view in his solo exhibition at Sebastian Gladstone.
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The reptilian “Pier 865” is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY.
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Photo by Steve Kroodsma. All images courtesy of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, shared with permission
A Sculpture Made of Tens of Thousands of Aluminum Facets Writhes in a Knoxville Park
November 25, 2025
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Kate Mothes
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A vibrant new pavilion rises to meet the square’s picturesque trees in Cradle of Country Music Park in Knoxville, Tennessee, connecting the city’s Old Town and its theater district. Made from tens of thousands of individual pieces of painted aluminum, the vivid “Pier 865” provides both a resting place and a vantage point in a reinvigorated public square.
The reptilian sculpture is the work of Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY, continuing the designer’s interest in high-tech, large-scale installations that involve meticulously assembled elements. Conceived digitally, the structure has a bold, futuristic quality that looks exactly like a 3D model made real—one can imagine its pixel-like pieces puzzling together in a computer program.
Photo by Steve Kroodsma
The pavilion is painted in greenish gradients in a nod to its surrounding trees. “Its organic shape brings to mind different life forms from different angles: from ground level, the sculpture suggests alien flora growing from the concrete—but viewed from the sky, a tensile, reptilian form reveals itself,” a statement says.
See more work by Fornes on his website and Instagram.
Photo by Keith Isaacs
Photo by Steve Kroodsma
Photo by Steve Kroodsma
Photo by Steve Kroodsma
Photo by Keith Isaacs
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Kita imbues seemingly mundane tasks with consequence and emotion, freezing them in time.
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“My boundaries” (2021), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 16.5 x 30 x 12 centimeters. All images courtesy of the artist and FUMA Contemporary Tokyo | BUNKYO ART, shared with permission
Emotions Manifest as Uncanny Scenarios in Ayako Kita’s Tender Sculptures
November 24, 2025
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Kate Mothes
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Combining hand-carved Japanese cypress with crystal-clear acrylic resin, Ayako Kita sculpts tender, emotive figures. For her current exhibition, The End of the Day Begins at FUMA Contemporary Tokyo, she focuses on the transitional moment of returning home, in which seemingly mundane tasks like switching on a light or opening a curtain are imbued with consequence, frozen in time.
Kita’s work emphasizes an often introspective world, where a young woman or girl’s consciousness, emotions, and anxieties manifest in uncanny scenarios. The titles usually offer important clues, too. In “me & me,” for example, an extra pair of legs is literally tethered to the character’s own limbs, as if another half-formed parallel version of her person is always present. And change is in the air in “Premonition,” where a slightly apprehensive expression is accompanied by a gust of wind.
“Premonition” (2022), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 29 x 17 x 11 centimeters
In her most recent work, the figures exhibit expressions of curiosity, thoughtfulness, and faint concern, gazing directly at the viewer, as if seeing us unexpectedly across a room or out a window. “When I began to think about creating a world in which all the pieces would connect as one continuous story, this series naturally came to mind,” Kita says in a statement.
The End of the Day Begins includes works the artist has made throughout the past five years. Her newest pieces combine figures with furnishings and architectural elements, a theme she first explored when she was a student. “Rather than a return to my origins, this production became a time to reaffirm that these scenes still exist vividly within me,” she says.
The End of the Day Begins continues through November 29 in Tokyo. Follow Kita on Instagram for updates. You might also enjoy the multifaceted woodcarvings of Yoshitoshi Kenamaki.
“me & me” (2020), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 30 x 22.5 x 15 centimeters
“Night Falls” (2025), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 55 x 21.5 x 18.5 centimeters
“Let go of everything” (2024), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 33.5 x 20.5 x 14 centimeters
“Causality” (2021), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 30 x 30 x 15 centimeters
“Shut Down” (2025), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 51 x 30 x 21 centimeters
“Today Ends Here” (2025), Japanese cypress and acrylic resin, 47 x 32 x 26.5 centimters
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Laveuve is known for his meticulously sculpted miniatures rendered in 1/24 and 1/35 scale.
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