Laura Cooperman

Born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1984 to a family of architects, Laura Cooperman, has created elaborate structures, floor plans, and meticulous arrangements out of household items as a child. After working for artist Nancy Spero, Laura became engrossed in the delicate, methodical process of paper cutting and began experimenting with light, depth, and movement.



In Spring 2006, Laura received the Grainger Marburg travel grant for her paper-cutting work. She is currently planning to travel to China in the fall to study the traditional art of Chinese paper cutting and to document and interpret the effects of urban renewal in Beijing through her cut paper overlays. With movable parts and rotating gears, her creations are little engineering feats of their own right!



[images and text extracted from Laura Cooperman.]

Janna Syvanoja

Born 1960 in Helsinki, Finland, Janna Syvanoja creates her recycled paper jewellery pieces, with an organically slow process, by curving each slice of paper around the steelwire, piece by piece to evolve its shape by itself. Printed paper to her has an additional facet of the information it contains. Transformed into graphical patterns on the surface of her pieces, one can only see make out the words and letters that contained messages and expressions, very much what the artist wishes her jewellery is worn for.





[images extracted from Charon Kransen Arts.]

For more information, visit Janna Syvanoja.

Jacob Hashimoto

Untitled, 2006
200x158x19.5cm; Paper, Nylon String, Bamboo, Acrylic

Jacob Hashimoto was born in Greeley, U.S.A., in 1973. He lives and works in Los Angeles. Distinctly American, he engages with his Japanese heritage in a genuinely creative manner. His works instill an uplifting sense of airiness. The delicacy of his forms, whether they descend and envelop or expand and climb, creates as much a space for the spirit as for the body.

For more information,visit Jacob Hashimoto.

Ball Nogues Studio

Ball-Nogues Studio is Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues, the very talented creators behind the integrated design and fabrication practice that creates experimental built environments to enhance and celebrate the potential for social interaction through sensation, spectacle and physical engagement.

Rip Curl Canyon, Rice University Art Gallery, 2006

Rip Curl Canyon viewed through the glass provided only glimpses of the unfolding topography beyond and invited the visitor to probe deeper.

Details of Rip Curl Canyon, Rice University Art Gallery, 2006

The project, created of 20,000 strips of corrugated cardboard curved,industrially die-cut and laminated over twelve days, weighs almost eight tons. Incredibly strong with an intermediary plywood armature, it is capable of supporting the weight of several people. Ball Nogues Studio digitally developed a language of slotting connections so that these non-standard parts came together like a giant puzzle in four days, required very little structural decision making on site, giving them freedom to improvise during installation.

Rip Curl Canyon, Rice University Art Gallery, 2006

Using the properties and limitations of the material the designers determined the shape of the cardboard ribbons through building full scaled mock-ups during development combined with a digital study of the parametric interface.

For more information, visit Ball Nogues Studio.

Erica Rasmussen

Neckpiece

Erica Rasmussen is an artist who creates sculptural and wearable works of mixed media. She graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis). Her current work explores issues of identity and corporeality, often utilizing clothing as metaphor for one's skin.

[image from Papierwespe; text extracted from Media and Fine Arts, Resident Faculty]

Noriko Yamaguchi

Detail of group exhibition "2 x Three Beauties - The Charites" at General Public, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Japanese paper
Photo by Yushi Kamito

Noriko Yamaguchi, is a paper artist and sculptor, currently based in Berlin, Germany. Born in 1972, Japan, she graduated in 1996 with a Master of Fine Arts in Dyeing and Weaving, from Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music.

Solo exhibition at Gallery Art Point, Tokyo, Japan; 2007
600cm x660cm; Washi (Japanese paper)
Photo by Hideto Nagatsuka

Detail of group exhibtion "SUSPENDED"; Artist-In-Residence Program 2006/Autumn at Aomori Contemporary Art Centre (ACAC), Aomori, Japan; 2006
900cm x600cm

For more information, visit Noriko Yamaguchi.

Kyoko Okubo

Bathroom,
6"x9"x12"(HxWxD); Washi paper sclpture

Kyoko Okubo's small, gentle figures are meticulous crafted from washi, the traditional paper of Japan. Her diminutive, symbolic self-portraits resonate with intensity and challenge the imagination. There is something compeling and fragile about her works that makes us want to see more.

[Images and text extracted from Mobilia Gallery]

Angela O'Kelly

sculptural arm piece in lime
paper

Angela O’Kelly is a designer maker who crosses boundaries of jewellery, textiles and sculpture. She combines paper with mixed media using a variety of traditional and non-traditional textile and jewellery techniques. Inspiration derives from a fascination with simple shapes, textures, repetition and colour in urban and rural landscapes.

sculptural neck piece
newspaper, financial times

sculptural arm pieces
fabric paper, paper, plastic,felt

For more information, visit Angela O'Kelly.