Beauty, Grotesquerie and the Sublime

Snow Day!

Medical Wax Moulage (Acne) now found at Obscura Antiques NYC

Hooray- you now can buy my work at Obscura Antiques (NYC- Oddities)

For Obscura Antiques- Beginning for Acne

Discards

This model haunts me....I'm compulsively casting him over and over.

Below a link for a guest post I wrote for The New York Academy of Medicine

http://nyamcenterforhistory.org/

MRSA 2

Wax Medical Moulage- MRSA

Now complete moulage, first stages used for NYAM's festival last weekend.

Beginning piece for O+ Ignaz Semmelweis- wax anatomical pregnant woman

Wax moulage- MRSA- used for the New York Academy of Medicine's Festival of Medical History and the Arts

Created and used for yesterday's demos I did for NYAM's festival. Was in wonderful company (Oliver Sacks just to name a few)....

Kitchen shots...3 Graces; Charm, Beauty, Creativity plus the beginning of an antomical wax giving birth referencing Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis.

Wax, bones and fetal skeletons...

Finishing up "Charm"

a few more details and she's done! The interior is made of human remains, barb wire and a garbage bag....

Re-assembling Grace #1 beginning detail work

Beginning the wax part of the skeleton adding texture etc- Charm (the name of this Grace)  will become more like an ecorche when finished, reminiscent of death

Grace #1 Charm beheaded to do detail work

Adding hair, pore work eyebrows etc...

Grace #2 : Beauty

Beginnings of Grace  #2 (Beauty). Will have death cradling beauty...you're seeing 2 sides of a face cast which eventually will be fused into one. Death will be a type of Memento mori /Vanitas/Vanite but from the groin up...looking forward to this piece!

Memento Mori revamped by Evan Michelson for Morbid Anatomy shoot

Promo shoot for upcoming Morbid Anatomy. Evan Michelson has done a fab job bringing to life this waxwork!

In the kitchen talking about the progression of my work

grace #1, progressing

wax, pelvis...moving right along...

One of the Three Graces

Working on 1of the 3 Graces, (part of the Saints/Hell's Mouth installation). A Life- size wax figure w/both human and cast wax bones.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mercurial-mirabilia-at-the-lodge

one more

http://www.creepmachine.com/news/die-wunderkammer-objects-of-virtue.html/attachment/wunderkammerexhibition2013_sardasigrid_mementomori_13_600px

some more..

http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/03/21/peeking-inside-die-wunderkammer-the-inaugural-exhibition-at-the-lodge/

Some info about the exhibition I'm participating in

http://www.thelodownny.com/leslog/2013/03/the-lodge-gallery-opens-with-group-show-die-wunderkammer.html

Exhibition NYC "Wunderkammer", my piece Memento Mori is featured

http://blogs.artinfo.com/artintheair/2013/03/21/peeking-inside-die-wunderkammer-the-inaugural-exhibition-at-the-lodge/#.UUt6Mz3Xggc.facebook

In Wikipedia!

I've just been named in wikipedia, along with some phenomenal artists ( a few are my hereos like John Issacs!),  under wax sculpture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax_sculpture

Vanitas for NYC exhibition next week

About to cast brains and skull cap

Finished Dead Saint Praying and some work on the horizon

Reworking Maria Goretti

Retrieved the work from Morbid Anatomy- glad to have it back (the original was a failure in my eyes). Reworking this, adding a partial body, looking forward to seeing it finished...

Happy Valentines

Quick snap of finished Dead Saint Praying....

Finishing up Dead Saint Praying

This past week!

This is an unfinished work (Saint Maria Goretti) for Morbid Anatomy's Resurrection show now on exhibit

These are some fun pics of Evan and myself before the Oddities wrap party!

Evan Michelson with a vanitas "The Maiden"

Evan Michelson posing w/one of my waxworks

praying dead saint...work in progress