Brian Dettmer‘s  stunning tape skull…

(via designboom) 

 Brian Dettmer on flickr

The art of John Espinosa.

Things you can or can’t learn on TV (2001)

Skull prismatic resurrection (2003)

Justin Novak‘s ceramic dis-figurines…

The fine line that exists between the “tasteful” and the “grotesque” is precisely the course that I strive to navigate. It is in the haunting tension between the two that seduction and repulsion inhabit the same space, where the very function of “taste” is perhaps suspended, and the politics of these gleaming white aesthetics are laid bare…

Chinese artist Li Zhanyang.

The absurd creatures of Shen Shaomin.

Christian Lemmerz‘s sculptures…

“…Death has stood as a central artistic theme. Not only physical death, but also the emptiness of existence. His works attempt, not without some measure of ambiguity, to transgress our collective repressions and draw forth the seamy side of ideal pictures in order to create a conflict-ridden confrontation between work and viewer….”

Untitled (Virginia), Carrara Marble, 1998