Maskull Lasserre Hells Gate Humpback ~ all images © Maskull Lasserre unless otherwise indicated ~ Lasserre's sculptures and drawings explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of subject, material, and utility. January 12, 2024 Grace Ebert "The Third Octave" (2023). All images © Maskull Lasserre, shared with permission Behind the hammers and pins of most upright pianos is a hard mass of spruce, maple, or mahogany, what artist Maskull Lasserre ( previously) refers to as a "secret volume of solid wood."
Maskull Lasserre Artist Talk Art Gallery of Grande Prairie
Maskull Lasserre was artist-in-residence at the Broad Institute in 2014-2015. Lasserre came to Broad via Canada, where his work is represented in the collections of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, the Government of Canada, and the Royal Bank. Safe and steel, 1.45 m x 1.01 m x 1.01 m. Maskull Lasserre, Overture (detail), 2013. Steel, hydraulic cylinder, hardware, violin and bow, 1.93 m x 106 cm x 95 cm. by Bryne McLaughlin In March 2010, Montreal artist Maskull Lasserre travelled to Kandahar province in Afghanistan as part of the Canadian Forces Artists Program. Arts/Industry artist-in-residence Maskull Lasserre with his work, 2015. Photo: Kohler Co. Maskull Lasserre was born in 1978. He holds a BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy from Mount Allison University, and an MFA in Sculpture from Concordia University. Lasserre has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Carved chair and axe, 26 x 23 x 37 in. Maskull Lasserre September 1, 2013 by Krystina Mierins Toronto Centre Space Maskull Lasserre creates technically accomplished sculptures that achieve a delicate balance between familiar, everyday objects and fragile, often macabre forms.
Maskull Lasserre a sculptor who recarves discarded sculptures
Maskull Lasserre (Calgary, 1978) spent his formative years in South Africa. He holds a BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy (Mount Allison University), and an MFA (Concordia University). Maskull's exhibitions include Banksy's Dismaland, and Swept Away (Museum of Art and Design, New York). His visiting artist positions include those at the Broad. Maskull Lasserre's sculptures explore the unexpected potential of the everyday through associations of risk and seduction. Elements of nostalgia, allegory, humor and the macabre are incorporated into his works, which induce strangeness in the familiar and provoke uncertainty in the expected. The artist conceives and constructs objects as. Maskull Lasserre (born 1978 in Calgary, Alberta) spent his formative years in South Africa before returning to Canada. He has a BFA in Visual Art and Philosophy from Mount Allison University (Sackville, New Brunswick) and an MFA in Studio Art from Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec). He now works from a studio in Squamish, British Columbia. Maskull Lasserre is the Mike Tyson of the Canadian art scene: a soft-voiced killer with an unstoppable left-right combination. On one hand, he seems like the sweetest, most unassuming person you're ever likely to meet. On the other, he's the maker of spellbinding, disturbing objects of steel, wood, bronze and stone, powerful ciphers for our.
Strangeness in the familiar sculptures by Maskull Lasserre toner
Maskull Lasserre . Home; PORTFOLIO. Third Octave; a study of eighths with mathematical biology and speculative realist texts as shims. Carving as a redistribution of consciousness. Abscissa and Ordinate ; Below What Work of Dirt Does Not Struggle Starlight? A small excavated poem. Maskull Lasserre is a Canadian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1978. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Arsenal Contemporary Art, New York (Bowery) have featured Maskull Lasserre's work in the past.
(Toby Melville/Reuters) Saturday, following a "locals only" day, Dismaland opens to the general public. Previews reveal a bombed out Cinderella's castle, where you'll find a Banksy sculpture of the. Maskull Lasserre Maskull Lasserre , 2020 Arsenal Contemporary Art New York US$15,000 Discover and purchase Maskull Lasserre's artworks, available for sale. Browse our selection of paintings, prints, and sculptures by the artist, and find art you love.
Recarving by Maskull Lasserre Colossal Art, 10 Picture, Art Moderne
Maskull Lasserre has brought new life, or death in this case, to old computer manuals with his amazingly intricate sculpture of a human skull. Lasserre's work explores "the unexpected potential of the everyday through allegories of value, expectation, and utility." In a towering, totem-style sculpture titled "The Garden," Canadian artist Maskull Lasserre ( previously) compresses a collection of 18th-century botanical texts between two parallel planks of Douglas Fir.
