Trilene2 by mnima. Table light sculpted from solid aluminum. Modern. Minimal.

Trilene2

A mermaid with blue eyes and long blonde hair holding a shell up to her ear. She has a blue tail covered in white lace. She is wearing pearls and blue shells. A decorated white and blue lace top. She sits atop a gray rock with a blue swan floating by her amidst water lilies. 

Blue Calling

This steel cube has a large swoosh cut out of the side, starting at two opposite corners and cutting a large arc deep into the cube.  Inside the cube is a ball suspended as if it is riding through the cut.  The sculpture is made of steel, and textured in patterns radiating around the cut.  If you like this description, I would like to let you feel it’s inorganic shape.  Contact me through metalcraftersus.com and I will try to arrange a free session for you.

Negative Cube

A shallow glass abstract art bowl was made from square layers of white, sea green and cobalt blue glass fused together with heat and pressure. It represents an ocean view on a beautiful breezy day.


Sea Breezes

A Padauk and Ebony wood turned sculpture with gold gilding in the form of a Portal with Art Nouveau design influences

Portal

Oval shaped vessel of crocheted with copper wire over narrow copper strip.

Copper Vessel

An 11-inch tall toy Mama Kangaroo (with Joey), augmented with human hands, and candy-colored fun fur - with a dark, Rembrandt-esque green velvet background.

Matilda

A black framed, glass-on-glass translucent mosaic of a small light brown songbird, in a copper wire nest, located amongst newly budding leaves, at the "U" crotch of a tree. There is a background of a milky blue sky.

CovidArt 2020 "Stay the BEEP Home!"

A small sculptural object screwed into the wall, made of a found wooden knob, surrounded by a crocheted metal skin with a purple lacy edge.

Index #2

It is a 77 inch long bare branch of a tree that has been "folded" 31 times.

Folded Forest 77-31

mixed media....otherworldly woman..using authentic finds


Hermioni

A 2 d glass white flower, red sumac leaf, 2 cattails, with grass pieces set into a piece of driftwood.

Glass Garden

A 1.5 scale stylized human ear cast in dull orange bronze. The metal has been buffed to a shine and discolored from contact in some places, and left raw in others. The surface has marks from the sculpting tools, and the shape is a mix of naturalistic curves and roughly faceted angles.

Ear for My Darling to Nuzzle When I'm Away

A 3 footed sienna colored wood turned bowl with ochre colored stripe at the brim and raw bark edging made of mesquite wood.

949 Mesquite

A wooden box with a door. An animated figure has a foot on the threshold as if stepping in. Inside are images from a past Foot In the Door exhibit.

I got a foot in the door!

round black soft sphere, made from paper, open at the top

Silence

Artist's hand cut tiger eye cabochon set in a sterling silver bezel with sterling silver accents and chain.

Tiger Paw

Turned bowl with natural split from knothole on side, copper wire stitches with turquoise decorative beads

Made Whole Again

Sterling Silver one inch round bead containing a bright red orange transparent Mexican Fire Opal inside. The pierced cut out  Design has flowing openings that allows light to illuminate the opal from all angles. The opal glows brightly when the light hits it. The textured silver emits a soft muted glow.

Toby's Bead

A wet felted wool sculpture of a bust. The face is white with a mix of natural colored wool and cotton gauze felted together and the eyes are stitched in ecru and light green. The hair is voluminous, made of long scraps of fabric hand dyed with natural dyes. The head sits on a recycled bedspring. 

Fiber Artist

A box sculpture that opens to reveal a wrapped wing, medicinal bottles, an infinity symbol printing block, and found objects, all hanging in front of a copper painting of constellations

Ways of Mercy

A small glass sculpture of a winged red dragon with a white head and feet, standing on a base of gray/green twisting abstract shapes.

Red Dragon

A round, copper lapel pin with an abstractly cut silver layer on top. The left side has organic curves while the right side is more angular.

Duality

Two intertwined abstracted non-binary human figures twist about each other in a cork screw pattern. Starting from a wood pedestal, the polished yellow-red bronze geometric feeling base flows upwards through very loosely delineated legs, torsos, arms and shoulders. The piece culminates in tilted heads wrapped about each other face to face in a kiss. Though the piece is of two bodies it is hard to tell where one starts and the other ends as you follow the rotating pattern up and down the work.

The Embrace

The papier-mâché sculpture is the round head of a Pomeranian dog. He has a warm tan colored face accented with friendly facial features of big round eyes with eyelashes, a round nose and sweet mouth and freckles on the cheeks. The face is surrounded with soft butter yellow and white yarn. 

Pomeranian

Three pieces of blue gray handmade paper are standing in a slumped position. They are like old trees that have turned to rock. The paper is made from family rags. I made and entered this same piece in the first Foot In The Door show in 1980 when I was just beginning to make handmade paper. 

Cenolith

A design of colored metal shapes using found objects. A vertical blue area bordered with orange and red-orange lines of metal attached with round head screws that make a pattern of dark dots. A small blue spring is held in place with an orange pipe in the shape of a ?. A big rusted white handle creates a negative space on the left side.

A Handle on Color

This is a red brass necklace composed of large orange crackle agate rice and black onyx rondelles, nestled between byzantine weave section.

Byzantine Crackle Agate

Disposable tray with coffee cups and found objects like doll arms, spiky ball wearing doll sunglasses resembling the COVID-19 virus and city buildings made from scratch by artist.

Architects' Java With Visitor

This is a wood carving of Leo standing in the wind with his comb-over hair being blown off his bald head.  He is holding a walking staff and looking off in the direction of the wind.

Leo's Bad Hair Day

Tiny orange Putka seed pod, carved and gutted into a pumpkin and illuminated with a rice light. 

Trilene2, 2018

Steve Holzgraefe