Tara Donovan

Our Three Corner heads are spinning at the moment with excitement (and fear!...but we figure it's good to be scared, at least we know we're challenging ourselves...right?!). We're currently coming up with ideas for pop up events and there's so much we want to make! However we still need to find the time, space and money to make everything! Eek! Tara Donovan's styrofoam cup installations caught my eye as she proves that an inexpensive everyday object when played with can become something spectacular. Take a look... A

Phoebe Washburn does it low-fi

The Three Corners are on a very fine budget to get our first pop-up off the ground, and for this reason Phoebe Washburn's large scale installations/mini eco-systems immediately grabbed my attention. Made of cardboard, MDF, recycled wood and discarded industrial materials her works still manage to transform spaces in to visually compelling architectural environments. Take a look at these beauties... A

Kwangho Lee

With some exciting projects coming up for 2012 I've been spending my afternoon trying to come up with some ideas for installations and features. As always, however, I got a little distracted and ended up on a journey from blog to blog (which I love-It's the best way to procrastinate!) and I came across the amazing works of Kwangho Lee, a Korean artist using the skills he picked up from his grandfather growing up on a farm. Feast your eyes...A

Images courtesy of www.kwahgolee.com

Upside-down rooms...and houses!

When people enter the Three Corner space we want them to instantly loosen up and to constantly be looking around and discovering new things. We love the idea of playing with people's preconceptions by manipulating their surroundings and distorting perspectives. The first image is of an exhibition from 2000 - Carsten Höller, Upside Down Mushroom Room. How amazing are the oversized mushrooms, and how much do they mess with your head?! Also love the upside tea party and the upturned bookshelf, and while we're on the subject, why not just go all out and create an upside-down house?! C

Do-Ho Suh

Do-Ho Suh's intricate textile architectures make me feel teenie tiny, not just because of their incredible scale but because of the talent, time, work and effort that goes in to constructing such delicate and beautiful installations. Working with ideas of identity and space Suh creates a ghostly world of dream like, semi transparent homes as if capturing memories that you can't quite touch. Stunning. 
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Making houses explode

At first glance, these houses looks like they've been the victim of a seriously bad hurricane. However, the elaborate, jaw dropping bungalow intervention sculptures...installations....works of art? Whatever you want to call them, are incredible! 

Dan Havel and Dean Ruck smashed the interior walls of two bungalows before nailing the homes' own wood siding into a beautiful vortex which seems to tear through the buildings culminating in a small tunnel through the garden fence. Inversion, made in 2007, is sadly no longer around, but hands up to these guys. Brave, visionary and downright impressive. A 

Ana Serrano

Looking for installation inspiration today I came across the Rice Gallery in Houston, Texas. Dedicated to site-specific installation art, creating large scale environments that visitors can explore, and working with artists using inexpensive materials, I felt like I'd found our brother from another mother.

Their current exhibition shows the work of Ana Serrano, a Mexican-American who preserves the ephemeral nature of her LA home city. Serrano has created an imaginary version of a neighbourhood where the smallest details have been plucked from the maelstrom and playfully mixed together. She explains "I wanted to pull out everything that I liked in the city and then condense it".

The candy colours and vibrancy turn details that came from working class suburbs in to a Disney Land make-believe world. Not only do they look amazing but there are layers of commentary that are equally as interesting. Here are some of Serrano's cardboard sculptures made prior to the show at The Rice Gallery. Enjoy! A