Kris Kuksi weaves together strange looking pieces out of old toys, statues, mechanical parts and other discarded detritus.

Texas-based jewelry designer Melissa Borrell melds fashion and industrial design with her 2D3D line.

The Evolver is a sculptural viewing structure overlooking the Zermatt area of Switzerland and the Matterhorn.

Using the remains of old cassette tapes, Brian Dettmer has crafted a series of skulls and skeletons, both animal and human.

SonUmbra is a solar-powered tree-like sculpture that soaks in power during the day, and comes alive as a kinetic display of light at night.

For his piece Markers, Kendrick created “monumental” 10 foot tall sculptures with alternating layers of black and white concrete which references the layered stone found in Italian Gothic cathedrals.

Three artists – sculptor Jock Mooney, filmmaker Steven Eastwood and painter Mia Taylor – have just completed a month-long show/residency at The Gallery at Jerwood Space in London entitled Laboratory.

Industrial designer Ben Landau and felt / soft sculpture artist Brittany Veitch have created a range of wearable living couture accessories to bring elements of nature into urban living.  Each Bio Accessory has a living component of which the wearer must tend to, whilst the accessory works to block the unappealing aspects of urban living; masking sounds, sights and scents with a little greenery, bird calls and fresh air.  According to the Australian design duo the accessories represent ‘mobile natural environments’ designed to be the perfect symbiotic relationship.  Bio-Accessories is currently exhibiting at the Melbourne City Library till August [...]

With a peculiar sculpture piece based on a system of “Dendroids,” American artist Roxy Paine has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture at The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Roof Garden. It is an interesting combination of concepts – Paine uses both mechanical means and the innate logic of natural forms to create his “Dendroid” tree-like sculptures. Like in nature, these are a series of vascular networks, tree roots, mushrooms, and fungal mycelia. His meticulous research and observation of a variety of tree species help him to understand the nuances of how a tree grows. Paine has said:
“I’ve processed the [...]

Ghana-born artist El Anatsui’s works have been centered around the use of many different kinds of found materials which join together to form pieces that address topics such as consumerism, globalization, waste, and post-colonialism in Africa.

The metal fragments that act as the base of his sculptures: aluminum wrappings from the tops of bottles in local distilleries, rusty metal graters, used printing plates, are gathered locally in Nsukka, Nigeria, where Anatsui has called home for 28 years.
The National Museum for African Art site has a gallery of his works, along with his commentary on selected pieces. For more of an [...]

Renegade Futurist points us to the amazing artwork of Tim Noble and Sue Weber. The couple produced a brilliant series of pieces that use their trash as a kind of sculptor of light. When a light source is projected at the carefully created garbage piles, sharp, distinctive shadows appear on the walls beyond.
[Renegade Futurist via Environmental Graffiti]

As a follow up to last year’s “Urban Tumbleweeds” art installation at Burning Man, this past weekend, as a part FIGMENT, New York based design studio MSLK has assembled a new eco-art project entitled Watershed.
Watershed is composed of 1,500 plastic water bottles (the number of bottles consumed every second in the United States), strung from a tree—perhaps arranged symbolically pointing to our consumption’s burden on the earth. The downsides to bottled water have been well documented; from the energy and resources required to producing and transporting the bottles, to the pollution and waste resulting from the whole process, and that’s [...]

Artist Michael Ferris Jr. recycles old pieces of wood into complex portrait sculptures that express colorful details of his subjects faces. Inspired by the patterns of Maori tattoos and Byzantine mosaics Ferris uses a combination of both carved and layered wood and colored grout to interpret the sitter’s psychological and emotional state.
Michael Ferris Jr.

Brooklyn based artist Ebon Heath creates complex mobiles made out of beautiful jumbles of letters and words. His typographic sculptures free text from the confines of 2D space and where it can engage with the larger physical environment.
Heath explains one view of his work:
The structures are a physical representation of our language as object. This “visual noise” permeates all aspects of modern culture, especially urban living. From the signs, billboards, stores, and t-shirts that yell with type for attention as you walk down any high street. All the audio and verbal noise, from music we plug our ears with to [...]

Frank Plant is an American artist who creates drawings out of sculptured steel.  Based in Barcelona, Plant has been working with steel since the early nineties, mastering his unique form of drawing, creating “simple and direct studies of the forms and compositions of everyday objects.”
[via Frankie Magazine]