The Villager Art Gallery and Custom Framing located at 429 E Grand Ave. will host an exhibit of Body Casting art by Anne Elisabeth Hogh with an opening reception from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Friday.

life-size human figure kneeling as if in prayer. The piece also has a fascinating history, it turns out—it was made using a plaster cast of Michael Jackson’s body. Its artist, Nicole Miller ...

And they are not just human victims either ... plaster of Paris into that void, you got a plaster cast that was an exact replica of the body, but only a replica - more an "anti-body" than a ...

In the 1870s, archaeologists made plaster casts of those who died when ... known to have devastating effects on the human body. All of the victims appeared to be lying on their back or prone ...

Editor’s note: this article includes a photograph of a plaster cast of a person who died at Pompeii. Bits of human bone recovered from Pompeii, Italy, have yielded DNA from people who died ...

“Hand With Rings” is an oddly tender portrait, an expression of the enduring human desire to see inside ... depicts dozens of antique wax and plaster casts — death masks, hands and feet ...

From the Lyon full-body cast, Bonangera appears proud and serious. It is likely he was concealing pain, for the gypsum plaster was often ... The last “human zoo” to close featured people ...

And in that film, the powers that be created a fake human ... cast for the part. And I don’t mean, ‘Did I get the part,’ no. I mean that I was actually covered in plaster to make a mold of ...

People have long been fascinated by the haunting plaster ... from both human and animal remains in Pompeii, they managed to extract genetic information from some of those plaster casts containing ...