Scott Radke’s animal-human hybrid sculptures are unsettling, haunting, surreal, imaginative, macabre, melancholy, sweet and simply extraordinary.
Fish
The Ohio native, best known for his other-worldly string marionettes, recently began creating sculpts of the creatures with the overtly wide-spaced eyes – a trademark characteristic for his epoxy clay collection. They seem…vulnerable. Or maybe it is that I feel vulnerable when I study them, some part of me believing that the artist is really exposing who we are and what we look like underneath this skin…not quite human, not quite easy on the eyes, full of uncertainty…but lovable nonetheless.
Meerkats
Swans: Work in Progress
Swans
More of Radke’s work on Flickr.
I don’t often go nutty over a new-found artist, but I am now over Scott! I’m sure I’ll be spending much time at his well-stocked flickr site…thanks, Susan..
I found Scott’s work a few years ago and love it. He’s so talented! His new things are amazing!
Oh my goodness!! I have never seen Scott’s work before… how extraordinary! It is wonderful to see such originality. His work makes you feeeel!
[...] Lomuto blogs about previously-featured artist Scott Radke on her Polymer Clay Notes blog. I like her observation that the widely-spaced eyes of his creatures make them seem vulnerable [...]
[...] June, 2008 we looked at Scott Radke’s animal-human hybrid sculptures and marionettes. This year the illustrator and sculptor has expanded his reach and moved into the world of jewelry. [...]