Tom Otterness (1952) - photo 1

Tom Otterness

Tom Otterness is an American sculptor best known as one of America's most prolific public artists. Otterness's works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums around the world, notably in New York City's Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and Life Underground in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York Subway station. He contributed a balloon (a giant upside-down Humpty Dumpty) to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. In 1994 he was elected as a member of the National Academy Museum.

His style is often described as cartoonish and cheerful, but also political. His sculptures allude to sex, class, money and race. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and an alligator crawling out from under a sewer cover. His aesthetic can be seen as a riff on capitalist realism.

Wikipedia

Date and place of birt:1952, Wichita, USA
Nationality:USA
Period of activity: XX, XXI century
Specialization:Artist, Engraver, Graphic artist, Painter, Sculptor
Genre:Genre art, Genre sculptur, Portrait sculpture
Art style:Contemporary art
Technique:Engraving, Hand graphic
Medium:Bronze, Plaster

Creators USA

Thomas Eakins (1844 - 1916)
Thomas Eakins
1844 - 1916
Frederick George Roth (1872 - 1944)
Frederick George Roth
1872 - 1944
Olga Albizu (1924 - 2005)
Olga Albizu
1924 - 2005
Hugh Henry Breckenridge (1870 - 1937)
Hugh Henry Breckenridge
1870 - 1937
Louise Nevelson (1899 - 1988)
Louise Nevelson
1899 - 1988
Charles Lewis Tiffany (1812 - 1902)
Charles Lewis Tiffany
1812 - 1902
Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877 - 1952)
Katherine Sophie Dreier
1877 - 1952
Joel Meyerowitz (1938)
Joel Meyerowitz
1938
Howard Russell Butler (1856 - 1934)
Howard Russell Butler
1856 - 1934
Sean Landers (1962)
Sean Landers
1962
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (1940)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith
1940
Ernest Briggs (1923 - 1984)
Ernest Briggs
1923 - 1984
Shepard Fairey (1970)
Shepard Fairey
1970
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876 - 1973)
Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington
1876 - 1973
Clark Murray (1938)
Clark Murray
1938
Randolph Caldecott (1846 - 1886)
Randolph Caldecott
1846 - 1886

Creators Contemporary art

Lucio Pozzi (1935)
Lucio Pozzi
1935
Mario Merz (1925 - 2003)
Mario Merz
1925 - 2003
Gideon Appah (1987)
Gideon Appah
1987
Nikolay Dulgerov (1901 - 1982)
Nikolay Dulgerov
1901 - 1982
Serafima Vasilievna Shakhrai (1905 - 1981)
Serafima Vasilievna Shakhrai
1905 - 1981
Thomas Burt Allen (1928 - 2004)
Thomas Burt Allen
1928 - 2004
Maria Moser (1947)
Maria Moser
1947
Sergey Nikolaevich Prisekin (1958 - 2015)
Sergey Nikolaevich Prisekin
1958 - 2015
Leon Löwentraut (1998)
Leon Löwentraut
1998
Vladimir Efimovich Tsigal' (1917 - 2013)
Vladimir Efimovich Tsigal'
1917 - 2013
James Francis Gill (1934)
James Francis Gill
1934
Elisabeth Frink (1930 - 1993)
Elisabeth Frink
1930 - 1993
Julie Kopová (1995)
Julie Kopová
1995
Konrad Klapheck (1935 - 2023)
Konrad Klapheck
1935 - 2023
Mirella Bentivoglio (1922 - 2017)
Mirella Bentivoglio
1922 - 2017
Lois Lane (1948)
Lois Lane
1948