Wax installation

All wax. Artist: Urs Fischer

Our national art critic gets up close to Heidi Norton's Plants Grow Through It, now on view at Sargent's Daughters.

spencer finch

Lucy Glendinning’s figures carry absorbing, yet unsettling textures alien to the human body. The artist uses material like wax, duck feathers, timber, jesmonite, glass, and other materials for her strange, often fetal-positioned characters. For some, Glendinning's work may recall the feather-based sculptures of Kate MccGwire, last featured on HiFructose.com here. A past statement offers some insight on Glendinning’s vision.

Wax sculptures from 2005 - present by contemporary sculptor and photographer Petah Coyne.

Petah Coyne © Untitled #695 (Ghost/First Communion) 1991. Photograph ...

237 Minutes Wax, wax paper, (charcoal), 48" x 80", 2006 One piece of burning charcoal, positioned on a stack of wax paper, burnt for 237 minutes. The...

Mixed-media artist Angelika Arendt spends her time merging her two preferred creative interests: textile design and fine art. Working in sculpture and drawing out of her Berlin studio, Arendt creates organic forms that seem to grow through each tactile form and line. Arendt studied Textile Design at Reutlingen University, graduating from the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe where she received the title of a master-class student. In the following interview, we discussed how she…

A German contemporary artist creates a meditative space—lined with beeswax—at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.