“Hurdy” by MAp-MAp
My Plastic Heart’s new show, “Ghost in the Machine,” features artist’s custom interpretations of Matt Siren’s Ghost Girl figure. The Ghost Girl figure itself is interesting – I do love a good disembodied head – and some of the customs in this show are stunners. Turns out that it makes a pretty sick platform, at least the artists here have made a believer out of me.
“Hurdy” by MAp-MAp is one of the best pieces in the show and one of the cheapest, amazing! I would love to add this to my collection, it’s utterly fabulous. People mistakenly think that “simple” pieces are “easy” to make, but 1) we all know MAp can handle complex figures and 2) that’s totally untrue. Making a beautiful, artful, and still simple piece is much harder because it means you have to know the best places to add detail and only add it there. If I could have any piece from the show that I wanted, it would be this one.
“Petal” by Julie West
Man, I’ll tell ya, girl knows how to make avocado work! Avocado green and magenta/pink is one of West’s go to color schemes and I can never get enough of it. I love how sweet this piece looks and how it seems to have a bit of a smirk. The price on this one is really reasonable too, there’s no way it’s going to make it through opening night without getting snapped up by someone, and you can quote me on that.
“Aqua-Lilyquin” by Chris Ryniak
Zam! Ryniak’s custom piece is amazing, absolutely hands-down crazy and amazing. Unlike the two above his is not (for me) reasonably priced but I have a theory! I think Ryniak loved this piece so much that he put a high price on it to keep it in his collection :3 that makes sense to me anyway because this custom is so cool and must have taken a ton of work. Some defiant person with a healthy piggy bank will probably take this darling home, it’s so creepy cute, basically it’s everything that makes Chris Ryniak’s work great.
“U.S. GKS-66 Blackwidow” by DrilOne
Pretty amazing, eh? DrilOne’s stuff is pretty masculine and my tastes trend (duh) towards the super feminine, but damn is his work impressive! I can’t leave it off of my list of favorite customs from this show, it’s just too good. Also, I really love an apocalypse aesthetic and this piece appeals to that solidly. I imagine a little swarm of these guys roaming over the remains of a barren, post-apocalyptic wasteland gunning things down. That would scare the bejeezus out of me and any other survivors, at least until they picked us off @_@ eep!
The “Ghost in the Machine” show opens at My Plastic Heart at 6 PM on May 13th 2011, if I were in New York, you know I’d be there! Any of you going or planning on adding one of these customs to you collection?
~ Brigitte
Note: I asked for permission from My Plastic Heart to post these images, thank you to MPH for saying yes!
