Gallery: An Artist Who Specializes in Werewolves and Crystals
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David Altmejd builds awesomely complex worlds inside plexiglass containers.
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There are werewolves, insects, fruits and men made of geode organs.
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The sprawling works of art, like *The Flux and The Puddle* often pair the grotesque with the beautiful.
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Throughout the piece you see pathways of neon thread leading from one box to another. This creates a sense of motion in the piece.
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*Untitled* is made from foam, plaster and paint. Its deformities are equal parts horrifying and beautiful.
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Each of the plexiglass boxes is filled with its own little world.
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The massive sculpture is a bizarro ecosystem of mythical creatures, oozing fruits and decaying body parts
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His work often touches on ideas of evolution, a fascination he developed as a child.
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Altmejd works a ridiculous amount of materials into his pieces. There are things like resin, synthetic hair, leather shoes, thread, mirror, glass eyes, sequins and synthetic flowers. And that's just a taste.
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Altmejd's work is like a complex puzzle with no matching parts.
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In *The Eve* colored resin kiwis hang near an upside down man.
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It's a quieter scene than *The Flux and the Puddle*'s visual chaos. What you can't see? A gaping hole in the man's backside that showcases an array of colored geodes.
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Inside his studio you'll find a table full of resin-casted hands.
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And a table full of multi-colored kiwis. There are boxes of resin fruit lying around the rooms.
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A box labeled "heads."
