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

Dennis Bunker (1861 - 1890)
Dennis Bunker
1861 - 1890
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe (1850 - 1936)
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe
1850 - 1936
Robert Graham (1938 - 2008)
Robert Graham
1938 - 2008
Laura Gilpin (1891 - 1979)
Laura Gilpin
1891 - 1979
Olga de Amaral (1932)
Olga de Amaral
1932
Mark Innerst (1957)
Mark Innerst
1957
Patrick Demarchelier (1943 - 2022)
Patrick Demarchelier
1943 - 2022
Terry Winters (1949)
Terry Winters
1949
Grace Hartigan (1922 - 2008)
Grace Hartigan
1922 - 2008
Dan (Daniel Cody) Muller (1889 - 1976)
Dan (Daniel Cody) Muller
1889 - 1976
Ronnie Landfield (1947)
Ronnie Landfield
1947
Thomas Hart Benton (1889 - 1975)
Thomas Hart Benton
1889 - 1975
Carl Clemens Rungius (1869 - 1959)
Carl Clemens Rungius
1869 - 1959
Ronnie Cutrone (1948 - 2013)
Ronnie Cutrone
1948 - 2013
Nichole Velasquez (1986)
Nichole Velasquez
1986
John Currin (1962)
John Currin
1962

Creators Contemporary art

Menno Fahl (1967)
Menno Fahl
1967
Nikolay Vasil'evich Kuz'min (1890 - 1987)
Nikolay Vasil'evich Kuz'min
1890 - 1987
Thomas Grochowiak (1914 - 2012)
Thomas Grochowiak
1914 - 2012
Wang Min (1986)
Wang Min
1986
Herbert Hirche (1910 - 2002)
Herbert Hirche
1910 - 2002
Angel Delgado (1965)
Angel Delgado
1965
Jean Paul Brusset (1909 - 1985)
Jean Paul Brusset
1909 - 1985
Gevork Vartanovich Kotyants (1909 - 1996)
Gevork Vartanovich Kotyants
1909 - 1996
Mark Flood (1957)
Mark Flood
1957
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas (1906 - 1994)
Nikos Hadjikyriakos-Ghikas
1906 - 1994
Josef Friedrich Limmer (1892 - 1967)
Josef Friedrich Limmer
1892 - 1967
Mercedes Jelinek (1985)
Mercedes Jelinek
1985
Bettina Sellmann (1971)
Bettina Sellmann
1971
Leonid Berman (1896 - 1976)
Leonid Berman
1896 - 1976
Tim Rollins (1955 - 2017)
Tim Rollins
1955 - 2017
Dóra Keresztes (1953)
Dóra Keresztes
1953