Wire Artist websites

God of wire Alexander Calder
1971 Smithsonian Interview with Calder
The Calder Foundation
National Gallery virtual exhibition tour

Arthur Ganson
King of kinetic machines

Corinne Okada
another accidental online discovery but WOW!
wire and paper and kimonos! Her bee is FANTASTIC!

 

Elizabeth Berrien -found her online, the detail of the eagle head shows an
interesting way of handling wire

Kinda cutesy work of Sten Hoiland

David Mach's wild sculptures from coat hangers.
His work is much more about the contours of objects but still quite interesting!

This was a fun group of images from a workshop I randomly found just to get you inspired
Check out their Flickr images. Sweet!

A bunch of cool wire tutorials on Youtube!

How to make a wrapped loop
(I think the 1/2 inch down estimate is a bit long personally)

Okay this is just cute-
a woman makes a corn holder for squirrels out of thick fence wire

Watch as Daryl makes neat wire stuff
Mouse
Dog part 1
Dog part 2
Turtle

Arthur Ganson!!!!!
while his work is not exactly the tye of thing we'll be doing it is just plain COOL!
He's the king of making wire machines!
"Birds"
"Child Watches Ball"
"23 Strips of Paper"
" Arthur Ganson's 23 Strips of Paper, detail"
(could you envision winglike movement in your work?)

Wire Art exhibitof wire monsters and superheroes

Wire bird by Nakisha
Her work is very loose and organic.
She barely uses pliers just sloppily mushing with her hands and its great!