Evguenia Jokhova

Evguenia Jokhova aka Evy Jokhova is a painter/bookmaker. The concerns of her practice are fantasy and fairytales. She creates make-belief worlds through various media focusing on escapism through imagination. Blurring the boundary between real and imaginary, Evy morphs mundane everyday objects into people and animals creating fantasy worlds, dreamscapes and imaginary creatures.



Evy will be graduating with a MA in Printmaking from the Royal College of Art, London.

For more information visit Evguenia Jokhova's website.

[images and text extracted from Evguenia Jokhova]

Book of Art

Book of Art is a husband and wife team, Issac and Veronica. Isaac is the master behind the art and Veronica, the manager. Their creations started in 2000, inspired by book art they saw. When the couple needed a "Welcome" sign for their guest bedroom, Isaac found his calling. The works of Book of Art are listed on their Etsy shop. 

For more information, visit Book of Art's Flickr and Etsy.


[image from Book of Art]

Yuken Teruya

Born in Okinawa, Japan in 1973, he received his MFA from the school of Visual Arts, New York in 2001. Yuken Teruya manipulates everyday objects, which he uses to create meticulous and intricate art works. His small and enchanting worlds, often relates to broader concerns.

It is good to be reminded of the forest that goes into each paper bag...







[images and text extracted from Yuken Teruya]

For more information, visit Yuken Teruya.

Mia Pearlman

Mia graduated with a BFA in Architecture and Planning from Cornell University, College of Art in 1996. Her works evoke environmental chaos, physical instability, and infinite destructive forces beyond human control.





It is incredible to watch the process of Mia's works as they evolve. Her cut paper installations constantly appear to mutate from a vortex within.

[images and text extracted from Mia Pearlman]

For more information, visit Mia Pearlman

Andreas Kocks

Paperwork #704, "Splatter"
Neue Werkstätten, München, 2007
421x1300x10cm, paper

Born in 1960, Andreas Kocks currently lives and works in New York City and Munich. Originally from Oberhausen, Germany, Andreas' site-specific paper installations are multiple layers of paper, usually in white or black, that is precisely cut, such that they peel and ripple in dynamic motions off the gallery walls.

Andreas graduated with a MFA in Sculpture from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in 1989 after receiving a BFA in Integration of Fine Art and Architecture from Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and MA in Education from University of Düsseldorf in 1987.

Paperwork #848 G, "Big Bang"
TBWA, Vienna, Austria, 2009
300x1600x15cm; Graphite on paper

For an incredible video of the installation process, here.

Detail of paperwork #701G, "In the Beginning"
DG-Galerie, München, 2007
580x1060x15cm; Graphite on paper

For more information, visit Andreas Kock's website.

[all images and text extracted from Andreas Kocks.]

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.

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]

Hideo Iwasaki

A very talented artist wrote to us, making us very happy! We are so excited by his amazing work we need to share.

Detail of Mobile Composition I, 2007
black paper

Born in Tokyo in 1971, Hideo Iwasaki, is a contemporary papercut artist with an unusual background in biology. He has been papercutting from the tender age of seven and seek to express the raw characteristics of papercut. He creates mono-chromatic works directly with a knife, with an impressive step-by-step documentation here. His work as a biologist allows him to liberate the studies of life science in his art intuitively. Installed between glass panels or as mobiles, there is multiplicity in viewing his abstract compositions.


Detail of Polymorphosis, 2004
2000 mm x 1300 mm x 1000 mm (WxDxH); black paper, acryl and mirror

[images and text extracted from Hideo Iwasaki. Thank you, Hideo!]


Hideo Iwasaki is located a Kita 2-21-16, Kunitachi-City, Tokyo 186-0001, Japan. For more informaion, visit Hideo Iwasaki.

Hina Aoyama

Lettre de Voltaire, 2007


Paper Cutting of extacted text, 2007

Hina Aoyama, is a cutout artist, born in 1970 and based in France now. Hina works on her amazing creations with scissors!


Look at the intricacy of her cutting!

For more information, visit Hina Aoyama's website, blog, flickr and Youtube

Su Blackwell

Laissezfaire, one of our favourite blogs, told us about Su Blackwall and we so love her, we must share!


Birds, 2007
27cm X 32cm X 23cm


Betty in Cloudland, 2007
27cm X 50cm X 22cm

Paper is an accessible medium that has been used for communication since its invention. Su chose to engage this delicate material with irreversible and destructive processes. Her works reflect the precariousness of the world we inhabit and the fragility of life, dreams and ambitions.


Paper animation for Beringer Campaign, 2007

Su creates beautiful landscapes that feature nature and brilliant literary classics like The Secret Garden and Alice in Wonderland. Her intricate work emerging out of the books appear to release the trapped enchanment within, capturing the characters in a state of flux.


Do watch the Making of the Beringer Campaign!

[images and text from Su Blackwall. Thank you Su!]

For more information, visit Su Blackwall.

Robert Ryan

Papercut Frame for Vogue (Japan), 2006
Click on image for larger view.

Don't know why we took so long to feature Rob Ryan. He is one of the first artists whose works got us crazy about paper!

Right: Papercut, 2007

Left:
Dress for Vogue (UK),
2007


Click on images for larger view.

Here is something wearable that Robert Ryan made for UK Vogue. The filigre is created out of his signature paper-cuts, which the artist, writer and film-maker has been craeting for years. Often depicting fantasy worlds of animals, hearts and flowers woven with phases and text, Rob visualises modern fairy tales that are mesmerising.

[images and text extracted from Rob Ryan.]

For more information, visit Rob Ryan's website and blog.

studio glow

Installation in the paper forest exhibition, 2007
Studio 2 and 36 of Open Studios, Somerville
paper pulp

studio glow is a sculpture collaboration between husband and wife, Robert Ostermeyer and Riki Moss . The couple work primarily with overbeaten Abaca paper pulp to create sculpture, installations and lighting that play with forces of wind, water, light and shadow. The amazing pulp material records rippling, undulating, and sometimes violently turbulent surfaces. Their eco-art is a response to the environment.

To the sculptors, light brings revelation. For their illuminated sculptures, light illuminates details of the dynamic structure and variegated skin. It enhances contrasting shadow tones that reveal the fiber plane surface and topographical characteristics of paper.


Details of illuminated sculpture, 2007
28" X 24", paper pulp, weed wacker mono-filament

[images and text from studio glow. Thank you Riki!]

Riki Moss can be contacted at 31 Townline Road, Grand Isle Vermont, 05458;
Tel: (802) 372 4182. For more information, visit Riki Moss and studio glow.

Jade Pegler

origami crumpling, 2007
waxed paper


origami crumpling, 2007
waxed paper

Jade Pegler has the most amazing paper sculptures. We are very inspired by her crumpling works featured in her beautiful blog. Jade, born 1980 in Wollongong, graduated with a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Wollongong. Her work with paper and textiles combines a range of techniques including paper mache, bookbinding, hand and machine stitching, collage and origami.


Detail of work in progress for Nowa Nowa, 2007

Jade was the resident artist for Open For Inspection, Nowa Nowa, East Gippsland in 2007. The project involved making an installation with the help of the local community in an unoccupied and slightly derelict house over two weeks. In November 2007, the house was filled with installations and art by about 20 artists.

[images and text extracted from Jade Pegler]

For more information, visit Jade Pegler's website, blog and flickr.

Kirsten Hassenfeld

Installation of Dans la Lune, 2007
Commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photography by Nash Baker
Mixed media - paper, polystyrene board, acrylic, pipecleaners, light fixture.



Details of Dans la Lune, 2007
Commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Photography by Nash Baker
Mixed media - Paper, polystyrene board, acrylic, pipecleaners, light fixture.

Kirsten Hassenfeld was born in Albany, New York and graduated with a Master of Fine Arts from The University of Arizona, Tucson in 1998. The New York based artist creates extravagantly decorated crystalline sculptures that are crafted predominantly from paper. Kirsten's painstakingly created works revamp precious objects with decidedly un-precious materials and varying scales, making fantasy tangible and calling to question the notion of preciousness. We especially love her delicate drawings which magically transfigure into enchanting 3D installations.


Mine, 2002
21” x 18”, Graphite and acrylic on mylar

[images and text extracted from Bellwether Gallery and Rice Gallery.]

For more information, visit Bellwether Gallery and Rice Gallery.

Sarah Mitchell

Book Experiments, 2007

Every once in a while I come across blogs and flickr that I just wish to feature every single image - Sarah Mitchell is certainly one of them. Born in 1983, the artist is based in Leeds, UK. She graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Art Degree from Leeds Metropolitan University. She currently draws, makes books, makes prints, folds paper, recently sews and generally turns things she touches into beautiful things.


TOP: Cut out of tree silhouettes
MIDDLE: Fan Book, Spring Book, String Book, all 2007
BOTTOM: Cut out of trees silhouettes


Drawing of little plant, 2007

[images and text from Sarah Mitchell. Thank you Sarah!]

For more information, visit Sarah Mitchell's blog little paper bird and her flickr for more gorgeous inspirations.