If you haven't seen the Avengers movie, stop what you are doing right now and go see it. If you have seen it, then go ahead and enjoy these tributes to The Avengers that were showcased at Gallery 1988. If you are lucky you might find a piece that you like for sale.

Guy Laramee creates these amazing mountain carvings from old books.

"The erosion of cultures – and of “culture” as a whole - is the theme that runs through the last 25 years of my artistic practice. Cultures emerge, become obsolete, and are replaced by new ones. With the vanishing of cultures, some people are displaced and destroyed. We are currently told that the paper book is bound to die. The library, as a place, is finished. One might ask so what? Do we really believe that “new technologies” will change anything concerning our existential dilemma, our human condition? And even if we could change the content of all the books on earth, would this change anything in relation to the domination of analytical knowledge over intuitive knowledge? What is it in ourselves that insists on grabbing, on casting the flow of experience into concepts?"

If you want to learn more, read his full artist statement.

Paul Villinski creates these awesome butterfly works out of crushed beer cans from the streets of New York. 

"I am drawn to humble, yet evocative materials; in this case, crushed beer cans from the streets of New York - every one of them once raised to someone’s lips. My process of “recycling” them into images of butterflies is a quiet physical meditation, a yoga of tin snips and files and fingers."

Read more about his beautiful butterfly art at Paul's website. You might also like this Metal Sculpture by David Kracov or this Hummingbird CD Sculpture by Sean Avery.

Yong Ho Ji is a Korean artist who creates wonderful and unique sculptures out of recycled tires. You can see the meticulous details of the muscles, flesh, and curved bodies of his beasts. 

Some amazing portraits of of Audrey Hepburn and Marilyn Monroe by Craig Alan. He created these portraits by depicting tiny figures gathering together in the shape of the famous movie starlets.