He may not have attended art school or received any formal training, but Iraqi artist Abdul Qader al-Na'ib has managed to build a reputation as the man who turns scrap metal into art. This workshop in ...
Elyria native Merritt James Geddes collects scrap metal and turns the forgotten parts into pieces of art. Geddes said he has been creating art since he was a child. “I started at a really young age ...
Sculptures of stacked scrap metal sit behind the front window of the Nasher Sculpture Center. Artist Oshay Green, who grew up in North Texas and now lives in Paris, collected discarded pieces of tire ...
PALOS PARK, Ill. -- Like a modern-day Geppetto, Steve Kost articulated a scrap metal marionette he created at his home in Palos Park. It's one of many creations the ironworker and combat veteran has ...
Barbara Hepworth's stolen sculpture "Two Form (Divided Circle)" (1969) in Dulwich Park, South London (image via cbcnews.com) BBC reported yesterday that a sculpture by the esteemed British artist ...
ARVILLA, N.D. -- Cliff Haugen is an iron man. Hundreds of metal sculptures representing every kind of plant, animal or inanimate object imaginable decorate his farmstead and fields. Pieces from grass ...
Roger Dorsey is a heavy metal artist. He finds inspiration in scrap yards. In fact, he's a regular at Frank Sahd Salvage Center in Columbia, where workers sometimes set aside interesting pieces of -- ...
Celebrating the beauty of Blackness and protesting “environmental decadence” for a cleaner, waste-free future: that’s the vision of award-winning Nigerian metal sculptor and visual artist Dotun ...
When Travis Pond was 19, he sold the third metal sculpture he’d ever welded—a great blue heron. In a way, that piece has come to symbolize an art career that’s flown to greater heights than any he ...
SUMMIT COUNTY – Todd Buckendahl can make metal come alive. “I make things grow,” said Buckendahl, a local welder-sculptor. The 39-year-old first tried his hand at welding in his eighth-grade metal ...
Somewhere in antiquity, a philosopher murmured: "One man's junk is another man's treasure." Along North Palafox Street, opposite Southern Scrap Company, there stands a 38-foot tall bit of artistry ...