Sculpture

August 3, 2026

Porcelain Flower Sculptures With Golden Accents Capture the Way Sunlight Dances Across Petals

Earlier this month, My Modern Met Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief Eugene Kim visited the 2026 Laguna Beach Festival of Arts, where he explored the work of more than 100 award-winning Orange County artists across painting, photography, ceramics, glass, sculpture, and more. One of the stand-out artists included Monica Prado, a ceramic artist who uses porcelain and gold luster to create stunning floral sculptures. For Prado, every sculpture begins with a feeling she wants to hold onto.

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July 22, 2026

Surreal Sculptures Visualize Human Greed as Soft Bodies Bloating Out of the Frame

Multifaceted artist Vincent Lagrange spent more than two decades photographing animals with a sense of closeness that defined his acclaimed series Between Us. With Never Enough, he shifts that gaze inward, building sculptural forms that transform photography’s logic into physical space. The result is a body of work that confronts excess not as an abstract idea, but as something that presses, swells, and refuses containment.

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July 6, 2026

Artist Transforms Burned Cars From the LA Fires Into Stained Glass Sculptures

While the LA fires in January 2025 reduced tens of thousands of homes to ash, they also left around 6,000 burned-out cars rusting in driveways across the city. Most were eventually towed away and recycled as scrap, but stained glass artist Ben Tuna (of Glass Cowboy Studio) saw something worth saving. He rescued some of of the charred vehicles and transformed them into works of art.

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June 22, 2026

Monumental Mesh Faces Are a Ghost-Like Presence in a Historic French Church

Artist Jaume Plensa’s monumental sculptures have appeared in public spaces around the world, transforming plazas, parks, and city skylines into places of quiet reflection. Now, the Barcelona-born creative has brought that vision to Montpellier, France, with Mirage, a new exhibition at Carré Sainte-Anne that runs from June 3 through November 1, 2026. Plensa has spent decades making the human body feel infinite.

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