Chainsaw Art Gaining Popularity

Chain saw art is gaining popularity. Those interested in learning how to carve this way can find chainsaw carving for beginner sites and chainsaw carving videos. There are sites where carvings by chainsaw artists can be viewed and bought. There is a guild for these artists. Animals and mascots are popular designs. Bears seem to be very trendy.

Chainsaw Carving a Bear

Michael Peterson: Unique Wood Sculptures

Michael Peterson is well-known on a national scale. His first works were symmetrical and born of the lathe; his newer works are of an organic nature, but were created via a chainsaw. Forty wood sculptures  representative of 20 years of his artistic endeavor will be shown at the Mobile Museum of Art from 07/23/10 until 10/03/10.

Peterson's creativity is fueled by his beautiful surroundings in the Pacific Northwest. His work has been exhibited in many places including The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and the del Mano Gallery, Los Angeles.

Collections of his sculptures are housed at numerous museums including the Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Kate Clark: Sculpture : Human and Animal Mix

Kate Clark is an eclectic sculptor that combines animal skins with sculpted human faces. All of the human faces are extremely expressive, but their attachment to animal bodies is bizarre and could be too much strangeness for some viewers. Some people posit that Clark is speaking to the violence in people through her work. Clark's sculptures are definitely mythical. Her work will be shown at the Mobile Museum of Art from 04/30/10 until 07/11/10.

Mobile Museum of Art

In 2002 the Mobile Museum of Art was enlarged to 95,000 sq. feet. and become the biggest art museum on the Gulf Coast from New Orleans to Tampa. It sits in lovely Langan Park. There are more than 8000 permanent works in the museum, which entail over two hundred years of culture in their expression. It also presents traveling exhibits and regional works.

This fall three traveling exhibits are gracing the Mobile Museum of Art: Jun Kaneko's ceramic sculptures, Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos, and GlassWear: Glass in Contemporary Jewelry.