The Evocative Ceramic Sculptures of Kara de Dios

There are tons of talented illustrators, brilliant painters, and skillful sculptors in today's art scene, but there are only a few artists who can do it all.

Kara de Dios is a triple threat. She can draw, paint, and create sculptures. She graduated from the UP College of Fine Arts in 2008 with a degree in Visual Communication and has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions. Her art is a variety of "different materials and media, stemming from her explorations of the tangible, the virtual, and the unseen."

There's plenty of her work I wanted to feature here, but I'd rather leave you to lurk around her website and instead I'll focus your attention to her whimsical and sometimes unsettling ceramic sculptures. Here are some of my favorites:

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