Beautiful/Decay Artist & Design » Barry X Ball http://beautifuldecay.com Beautiful/Decay | Artist Book Series + Daily Art & Design Blog Sun, 27 May 2012 17:10:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Barry X Ball’s Marble Portraits http://beautifuldecay.com/2012/02/10/barry-x-balls-marble-portraits/ http://beautifuldecay.com/2012/02/10/barry-x-balls-marble-portraits/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:30:24 +0000 Amir http://beautifuldecay.com/?p=55938 Read the Rest...]]>

Portraits carved in marble have been around for hundreds of years but somehow Barry X. Ball has managed to bring a new twist to this ancient material with some minor tweaks like using the veins and swirls in the marble to his advantage. A great selection of Ball’s exquisite sculptures in a massive variety of stone after the jump.

 

 


 

 

 

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Barry X Ball’s personally selected subjects all start their floating-head lives as plaster casts that eventually becoming impaled on some sort of suspended device. They’re scanned by 3D laser scanners then meticulously carved into portraitures that bear high resemblance to their subjects. One of such was Matthew Barney, whose head was installed on a 69 inch spike of plated gold. Hey guys…what do you say? Barneys instead of Jacks?


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