Love This! Unique Yoga Sculptures

Earlier this week, one of my college friends posted the following yoga sculpture on my facebook page. It was love at first sight (thank you, Christina!)!! If I had tons of money and a big enough place to store a sculpture of this size (um, will I ever? Probably not...), I would totally buy this piece :)

So anyways, prompted by this amazing work of art, today is all about yoga sculpture. Take a look below for a few pieces by two very different, but very interesting artists, who have both captured some physical aspect of yoga in their work...

Artist #1: Katie Grinnan
From what I can tell by looking around online, this sculpture is Katie Grinnan's first yoga piece...but wow, it's a doozie. It's a time-lapse sculpture of her daily yoga routine, showing her body moving through each plane in space as it transitions from one pose to another. Gorgeous. Take a look below and prepare to be amazed. The piece is currently on exhibition at Brennan & Griffin, a Gallery in NYC.

Katie Grinnan, Mirage, 2011, Friendly plastic, enamel, and sand, 79 x 63 x 72 inches

Artist #2: Marc Quinn
Quinn, a British artist, has done a number of sculptures of Kate Moss in various yoga poses. My first thought--bizarre!? But after reading this article, I started to understand what he was getting at a bit more. When speaking about one of these pieces he says that although it's Kate Moss who is being depicted, it's really "a portrait of an image, and the way that image is sculpted and twisted by our collective desire...She is a mirror of ourselves, a knotted Venus of our age." Anyways, whether you understand what he's trying to say or not, they're very interesting pieces and he's done an amazing job with them. See more of Quinn's work on his website, here.

So there you have it--yoga + sculpture at it's best--or at least, at it's most interesting. And would you believe it if I told you that one of Quinn's Kate Moss pieces, cast in solid gold, sold for $900,000 at an auction last year? Probably some filthy rich yogi who bought it, right (haha!!!)?

Namaste,
Mary Catherine