5. Butterflies over New York.

    The Butterflies of Memory aims to become one of the largest public art projects in New York City. 

    A site-specific installation on little known Roosevelt Island in the East River, the artist’s giant butterfly sculptures are rigged to skinny metal poles, extending from the roof of the ruined smallpox hospital on the tip of the island.

    Serving as physical manifestations of inspiration, these golden-winged creatures will be visible to millions of New Yorkers every day.

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  6. Nature’s bounty.

    Mending Season is a series of tiny sculptures fashioned from the artist’s own garden vegetables.

    Green-thumbed artist Leah Gauthier often works with ephemeral materials, emphasizing the transient existence of nature’s many structures and forms. As each veggie sculpture lasts only a few hours, Gauthier is using her new Kickstarter project to fund a series of prints, capturing these momentary assemblages before they return to the soil.

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  7. Meet Cobalt. This tough customer is the prototype for Chicago-based artist Bryan Sperry’s new sculpture series, Warriors of the Apocalypse.  Made largely from found materials on the rough-and-tumble streets of Sperry’s Pilsen neighborhood, his retro-futuristic forms imagine a world of dystopian freedom fighters emerging from the urban landscape. The artist is currently funding production and publication of a full-color catalog documenting his found-object cyber soldiers.

    Meet Cobalt.

    This tough customer is the prototype for Chicago-based artist Bryan Sperry’s new sculpture series, Warriors of the Apocalypse. 

    Made largely from found materials on the rough-and-tumble streets of Sperry’s Pilsen neighborhood, his retro-futuristic forms imagine a world of dystopian freedom fighters emerging from the urban landscape. The artist is currently funding production and publication of a full-color catalog documenting his found-object cyber soldiers.

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  8. How to make a dinosaur head. 

    We’ve been following Tyler Keillor, a sculptor who specializes in skull and flesh reconstructions, since he launched his project to create an authoritative full-body reconstruction of Dryptosaurus.

    Seeing as we never thought about the men and women who tirelessly work to accurately reproduce an extinct species, it’s been fascinating to watch Tyler prepare for such a massive undertaking. It’s been even more wonderful seeing his work as it comes together, as you can see above. 

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  13. At the crossroads of music, sculpture, and performance comes Kris Perry’s Machines, a project which finds the artist creating elaborate sound devices out of old factory equipment. Perry describes his work as “booming percussives, low frequency vibrations, and howling pipes — all operated to create sounds by musicians poised at control panels.” And the musicians in this case are an impressive array, ranging from folkie Elvis Perkins to Tommy Stinson (founding member of The Replacements!) and former Smashing Pumpkins’ bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The piece is set to debut at The Hudson Music Festival this August; it debuts as our Project of the Day today!

    At the crossroads of music, sculpture, and performance comes Kris Perry’s Machines, a project which finds the artist creating elaborate sound devices out of old factory equipment. Perry describes his work as “booming percussives, low frequency vibrations, and howling pipes — all operated to create sounds by musicians poised at control panels.” And the musicians in this case are an impressive array, ranging from folkie Elvis Perkins to Tommy Stinson (founding member of The Replacements!) and former Smashing Pumpkins’ bassist Melissa Auf der Maur. The piece is set to debut at The Hudson Music Festival this August; it debuts as our Project of the Day today!