Is an AK-47 composed of plastic toys really a work of art? Check out Robert Bradford’s upcoming one-man London show, Plastic, and judge for yourself. Running from April 2nd through May 9th, Plastic will feature a collection of Bradford’s crazy creations, all crafted from plastic toys.

Mauger Modern Art, the hosting gallery, offers up this semi-confusing explanation of Bradford’s Plastic collection: “taking on the ‘gloriously futile’ task of representing the human and animal forms, the finished works carry an added bonus for the onlooker – specifically, they become Technicolor-ideal plastic canvases for self-projection.”

Whether you buy into that or not, the work is without a doubt interesting and probably worth a look if you’re going to be in London while the show is on display. Private viewings begin April 2nd from 6-9 pm and can be arranged through Mauger Modern Art. The location of the show is the Trafalgar 2 spring gardens, Trafalgar Square, London.

Check out the thumbs below to view three additional Plastics from Robert Bradford.

For more information: Mauger Modern Art

After being displaced by hurricane Katrina, New Orleans native and local artist Jeffrey St. Romain seized the opportunity to launch a skateboard company with his wife, originally known as Structure Skateboards. The company has evolved into Structure NOLA, which sells limited edition skateboard prints bearing his New Orleans themed art.

Structure NOLA decks are unique not only because they come in limited runs of 1,000 each but because the New Orleans skate scene is practically non-existent, making the company the only one of its kind.

St. Romain’s art decks sell for $100 a piece and are meant to be “wall art only,” according to the artist. After living in the Big Easy for the better part of the last four years, we’re a fan of St. Romain’s work and his fresh take on New Orleans art.

Available through: Structure NOLA

If you’re looking to creep out your house guests, we’d recommend you pick up a mannequin sculpture or two from Sicis, a high-end mosaic maker with showrooms in Milan and New York. Handmade out of glass tiles, Sicis’ weird sculptures come in just about every color and body position. Many of the sculptures, like the four we’ve pictured, come with extremely elaborate designs.

Aside from looking bizarre, Sicis’ sculptures could serve a semi-practical purpose in your dressing room or entryway. We’d like to see them make a Kama Sutra edition… That would get your house guests’ attention.

Available through: Sicis. There’s some other cool functional mosaic art on the site that’s worth a look.

British artist/designer Stephen Newby works in a unique medium: blown stainless steel. Newby calls his work Full Blown Metals, and he’s applied his unusual medium to create a wide range of objects, ranging from radiators to garden sculptures.

With each piece Newby intends to “to soften and bring an organic, tactile quality clinically modern materials… and in doing so giving these materials a soul.” This has resulted in a number of crazy pieces, from which we’ve chosen a selection of our favorites to show you:

Pictured above is the “Soft Seat Chair.” In thumb one you’ll find the “Equity Table,” our favorite piece of furniture from Newby’s collection. In thumb two you’ll see the “Pillow Radiator,” which Newby designed for Bisque Radiators in 2006. Thumb three shows a water scultpure titled “Floating Pillows.” And, thumb four shows Newby’s “Ctube” concept sculpture design.

Available through: Full Blown Metals

Fifty24SF is an awesome art gallery with locations in San Francisco and Portland, Oregon. We hit up the San Francisco location on a pretty frequent basis, as it’s conveniently located about a mile from where we live and adjacent to one of our favorite clothing stores, Upper Playground. The gallery has a reputation for bringing in some of the biggest and most promising contemporary artists from around the world. Their pieces are almost always controversial and off the hook.

At the moment, they’ve got a ridiculously good selection of works by Heavyweight Production House (HVW8), a collection of artists from Montreal. We thought we’d give you a look:

Pictured above left is “Mad Professor,” an acrylic on canvas original by Gene Pendon of HVW8 that’s listed at $3,300. Above right you’ll see “Ali” in the same medium selling for $5,500.

In the thumbs (pictured from left to right):

• “Alan Ginsberg” by Dan Buller and Tyler Gibney of HVW8, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, $1,200
• “Gun America/Political Minded,” giclee prints on paper, $200
• “A Monkey from Paris,” acrylic on canvas, $4,000
• “Barack Obama” by Dan Buller and Tyler Gibney, acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, $1,200

Available through: Fifty24SF’s online store