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
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Ernest Briggs
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Elizabeth Joy Peyton (1965)
Elizabeth Joy Peyton
1965
Matthew Barney (1967)
Matthew Barney
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Thomas Pollock Anshutz (1851 - 1912)
Thomas Pollock Anshutz
1851 - 1912
James Edward Kelly (1855 - 1933)
James Edward Kelly
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Kiliii Yuyan ()
Kiliii Yuyan
Nancy Schön (1928)
Nancy Schön
1928
Perle Fine (1905 - 1988)
Perle Fine
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Pat Steir (1940)
Pat Steir
1940
Nick Mauss (1980)
Nick Mauss
1980
Sylvia Shaw Judson (1897 - 1978)
Sylvia Shaw Judson
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Willis Seaver Adams (1842 - 1921)
Willis Seaver Adams
1842 - 1921
Lee Gatch (1902 - 1968)
Lee Gatch
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Stephen De Staebler (1933 - 2011)
Stephen De Staebler
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Henry Taylor (1958)
Henry Taylor
1958
Paul László (1900 - 1993)
Paul László
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Nadezhda Vasilievna Kashina
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Richard DeVore (1933 - 2006)
Richard DeVore
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Valeryan Alekseevich Sergin
1936
Max Lacher (1905 - 1988)
Max Lacher
1905 - 1988
Mai Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov (1925 - 2008)
Mai Petrovich Miturich-Khlebnikov
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Erich Schurr (1906 - 1989)
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1906 - 1989
Fiona Rae (1963)
Fiona Rae
1963
Trakia Wendisch (1958)
Trakia Wendisch
1958
Mariann Grunder (1926 - 2016)
Mariann Grunder
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Tony Berlant (1941)
Tony Berlant
1941
Wu Yiming (1966)
Wu Yiming
1966
Maria Vladimirovna Lomakina (1896 - 1964)
Maria Vladimirovna Lomakina
1896 - 1964
Detlev Nitschke (1935)
Detlev Nitschke
1935
André Girard (1901 - 1968)
André Girard
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Max Švabinský (1873 - 1962)
Max Švabinský
1873 - 1962
Bill Jacklin (1943)
Bill Jacklin
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