Artist Kate McDowell‘s porcelain sculptures are not only breathtaking in their amount of vivid detail, but they also hold an intrinsic meaning behind them. Like much of the art today, they resonate with the everlasting struggle of Man versus Nature. Her sculptures consists of wild animals using tools to survive the world in the environmental […]

I don’t know what it is, but I have a soft spot for toys and dolls doing very bad things. Very very bad things. Whether its Barbie committing bloody kitchen decapitations, action figures attacking naked girls and acting like stalking paparazzi, or just straight-up Barbie Porn, something always strikes a satiric chord when the innocent […]

Who wouldn’t want a tiny action figure of Damien Hirst or Jeff Koons on their desk, just to mock relentlessly every time your boss gets grossly overpaid for something or hogs unnecessary credit for something he didn’t create? Or you can have some artist you actually respect — really it’s up to you. Visual artist […]

A young contemporary artist from Miami Florida, Jen Stark creates everything from drawings and short stop action films to animation, but her standout work comes in sculpture form. The vivid use of color is what Stark specializes in, as specifically found in her sculptures which are made entirely out of paper. Individually cut large pieces […]

We love our shopping carts here at LIAS, not just cos it’s our logo but simply because of their inherent symbolism. Whether they’re smashed up, brand new and shiny, discarded in a gutter, re-purposed into hobo RVs, dipped in gold or bent into furniture, there is a universal code that those 4 crazy wheels and […]

Austin-based artist Shawn Springs makes wooden sculptures crafted to look as if they were pixelated 8bit creatures manifested into our meat and bones world. Although his pieces normally range from leaping mahi mahi to flaming hats, it’s his latest project, Vicious Venue, that’s taken his craft to the next level. As Springs explains: “My recent […]

This one really isn’t an easy concept to mentally digest at first. Initially, the project comes across as a game of “What’s wrong with this picture?” For instance: children, playing in a sandbox, nothing wrong with that…but children playing in a sandbox in the middle of a busy street? Seems very questionable. Each live sculpture […]

Nathan Vincent creates “man” art by knitting, becoming the biggest badass to hold a pair of needles