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

Sarah Sze (1969)
Sarah Sze
1969
Gisela Beker (1932 - 2015)
Gisela Beker
1932 - 2015
Achille Peretti (1857 - 1923)
Achille Peretti
1857 - 1923
Daniel Firman (1966)
Daniel Firman
1966
Granville Redmond (1871 - 1935)
Granville Redmond
1871 - 1935
Alex Perweiler (1986)
Alex Perweiler
1986
Eugène Berman (1899 - 1972)
Eugène Berman
1899 - 1972
Jack Mendenhall (1937)
Jack Mendenhall
1937
Reginald Beauchamp (1910 - 2000)
Reginald Beauchamp
1910 - 2000
Elizabeth Shippen Green (1871 - 1954)
Elizabeth Shippen Green
1871 - 1954
Elias Goldberg (1886 - 1978)
Elias Goldberg
1886 - 1978
Henry Golden Dearth (1864 - 1919)
Henry Golden Dearth
1864 - 1919
Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980)
Clyfford Still
1904 - 1980
Willem de Kooning (1904 - 1997)
Willem de Kooning
1904 - 1997
Hernan Bas (1978)
Hernan Bas
1978
 T. C. Cannon (1946 - 1978)
T. C. Cannon
1946 - 1978

Creators Contemporary art

Alexey Sergeevich Mikhailov (1926 - 1993)
Alexey Sergeevich Mikhailov
1926 - 1993
Manfred Bockelmann (1943)
Manfred Bockelmann
1943
John Craxton (1922 - 2009)
John Craxton
1922 - 2009
André Beaurepaire (1924 - 2012)
André Beaurepaire
1924 - 2012
Jean-Marie Ledannois (1940 - 2014)
Jean-Marie Ledannois
1940 - 2014
Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1928 - 2021)
Paulo Mendes da Rocha
1928 - 2021
Henri Catargi (1894 - 1976)
Henri Catargi
1894 - 1976
Ernst Günter Hansing (1929 - 2011)
Ernst Günter Hansing
1929 - 2011
Tadeusz Prushkovsky (1888 - 1942)
Tadeusz Prushkovsky
1888 - 1942
Julius Bissier (1893 - 1965)
Julius Bissier
1893 - 1965
Irene Bisang (1981)
Irene Bisang
1981
Giles Swayne (1946)
Giles Swayne
1946
Carlos Garaicoa (1967)
Carlos Garaicoa
1967
Marilyn Bendell (1921 - 2003)
Marilyn Bendell
1921 - 2003
Peter Brandes (1944)
Peter Brandes
1944
Xie Zhengli (1982)
Xie Zhengli
1982
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