MUSEUM ANATOMY - Amazing Body paintings

MUSEUM ANATOMY

Museum Anatomy is a collection of documentary photographs of works from museums around the world that have been recreated onto the human body. The artwork goes through a significant process until reaching the final outcome, a photograph of Chadwick, sometimes unrecognizable as a human form, with an elaborate, detailed painting covering a portion of his body.

The recreated paintings of these historic portraits recapture the subjects in their own moment in history. The resulting photographs reveal a unification of art combining antiquity, history and technology in a contemporary context.

CHADWICK & SPECTOR

Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector are both recipients of the prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship Award (2001), and they have been included as finalists for the Sovereign Asian Art Award in both 2006 and 2008 where their work auctioned at Sotheby’s Hong Kong. Their work has been published in The Harvard Review, Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! and will be in the upcoming book, The Real Real Thing: The Model in the Mirror of Art by Wendy Steiner. Their work can be seen in exhibitions and collections around the world.

While creating the Museum Anatomy project, they have had the privilege of working with curators from The Victoria & Albert Museum, The Prado, National Gallery (Prague), National Gallery (Athens), MuseuMAfricA, The Civica Museum (Palermo), University Art Museum, (Berkeley), National Gallery (Bangkok), among others. Currently, Museum Anatomy is expanding into works of art in the Asian region.

Based in New York City (although currently residing in Chiang Mai, Thailand), artistic duo Chadwick Gray and Laura Spector recreate classic works of art using the human body as the canvas. In their Museum Anatomy series, Chadwick serves as the canvas. His ability to maintain a constant pose requires incredible patience and body control.

As Chadwick holds a position, Laura uses her amazing painting skills to recreate classic works of art. The human body presents a unique set of challenges not seen on a typical canvas. Working with the contours and curves of the human body is very difficult, but Laura makes it look effortless.

Amazing Vegetable Carvings

Incredible sculptures of utensils

Artist Gary Hovey constructs shiny animal sculptures by welding stainless steel utensils. Hovey uses the initial shape of the particular piece of cutlery - the curves of spoons, the spikeyness of forks, or the flatness of knives - to inform the overall form of the animal he is crafting. Each piece is unique – no molds are used to help shape his work. The most astounding part of Hovey’s work is that the artist has struggled with the effects of Parkinson’s disease since he was diagnosed in 1994. Since 2004, he has been welding flatware, and he finds producing and showing this work to be therapeutic. “I work when I’m able to move. Family and friends carry sculptures for me. But I still get to make them,” says Hovey. “I don’t think the quality has suffered, but it does take longer to make them. It helps financially support my family and it is therapy for me. It has allowed me to meet many wonderful people.”