Realistic Sculptures By Evan Penny

Evan Penny makes sculptures of human forms out of silicone, pigment, hair and aluminum. His pieces range from the almost precisely life-like, to the blurred or stretched. Penny says on of his interests “is to situate the sculptures perceptually between the way we might see each other in real time and space and the way we imagine our equivalent in a photographic representation.” Though his creations are lifelike, Penny believes that “the real can't be represented or symbolized,” leaving everything to be a representation.
Evan Penny makes the kind of sculpture that is so realistic, so detailed, and so obviously a display of skill that it literally stops people in their tracks. But this alone isn't why the artist's work grabs the viewer.