Dear MadeIn3D community members,

Thanks to the Paris 3D Printshow event, I discovered inspiring and highly imagined 3D-printed art I wanted to share with you.

Below are five artists who are not to be missed in the field!

Monika Horčicová

Monika Horčicová’s works run the stylistic gamut. Some are psychedelic, like the 3D-printed piece Pánve, a network of circles mesh into a mathematical grid.

Pánve by Monika Horčicová 

Michaella Janse van Vuuren

Michaella Janse van Vuuren  is artist and designer with a PhD in Electrical Engineering. His 3D-printed are all surreal whimsy, where biology meets technology in cyborg fashion. 

The Rocking Springbuck by Michaella Janse van Vuuren

Lionel T Dean 

Some of Lionel T. Dean’s printed sculptures are a place where the biological and technological collide. In Blatella Luminaire, insects swirl around luminous points of light. Looking at them is a bit like imagining insects buzzing around street lamps, showing a hidden beauty behind insects’ disgusts.

The Rocking Springbuck by Michaella Janse van Vuuren

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

Matthew Plummer-Fernandez has a minor obsession with Micky Mouse, which he exorcises in psychedelically-glitched and colorful fashion in sekuMoi Mecy .

sekuMoi Mecy by Matthew Plummer-Fernandez

Nick Ervinck

Belgian artist Nick Ervinck has already worked and exhibited in a variety of media, but 3D-printing is a new creative output for him. Several of Ervinck’s 3D-printed sculptures are globular, or look as though they are self-assembling robots, as in ESAVOBOR. The latter is based on a Roman vase, but as Ervinck says, it has fashioned to look like a transformer toy.

ESAVOBOR by Nick Ervinck

So what do you think about these pieces? Is 3DPrinting the new medium for a barrier-free type of art?