arrowhead
The sculpture is a second-generation representation of a Native American arrowhead that has symbolic significance to my brother and his wife. The couple discovered an arrowhead during an outdoor excursion early in their relationship. Years later, the arrowhead is a talisman of love and commitment between the two. I found it intriguing that a small and ancient tool would, hundreds of later, become a symbol of their unity.
Baby steer
I built this little guy to be tight and compact, trying to create dynamic by suggesting a force of intensity and heaviness to contrast the quiet, solemn expression of his face.
Dimensions:
7” height
3” length
5” width
Baby with ball
This is another sculpture in my series of figures interacting with one of the most basic and universal of objects — a ball. In this piece, I created the ball to be an extension of the figure’s outward facial expression. The roundness of the eyes and mouth are to suggest kindness of open generosity.
Dimensions:
Bell Cow
This life-sized representation of a cow, shaped from an array of iron curly-ques, is intended to fit gently and easily in a natural setting, as is expected of a bovine beauty in a plush pasture.
Dimensions:
52” height
68” length
6” width
Boogie Men group
This motley looking crew represents the deeper, darker voices of the psyche. Fear, guilt, shame, and sorrow present themselves as a cast of subconscious echoes, haunting and taunting our desires. I wanted these figures to appear also sympathetic, so that in recognizing/understanding them, we can psychologically embrace them as part of the moving forward process.
Dimensions:
6: height
3” length
2” width
Boy with ball
What child doesn’t find a world of wonder from such a simple sphere? I wanted to create a feeling for this child’s natural curiosity. The interior space defined by the boy’s body is open enough to allow for interplay with the outside world/ball.
Dimensions:
3” height
2.5” length
2.5” width
Boy With a Goose
This bird is nearly more than the boy can handle. I wanted to suggest that in the innocence of youth, love and enthusiasm for life sometimes have no sense of proportion.
Dimensions:
6.5” height
2” length
2” width
bronko nagurski Hall Of Fame Fullback
This is an early sculpture demonstrating an unstoppable force of nature. Though the piece is relatively small, it demonstrates a tangible sense of strength, power, and forward motion.
cattail
Trying to make the fruit of the marshland come alive in metal. The sculpture represents an exercise in parsimony, whereas I’ve combined the fewest parts to convey the image of a cattail in a marsh.
Dimensions:
13” height
4” length
1.5 width
chain gang
This is a welded steel ensemble that contains nine figures. The striping for the uniforms was machined, and the leg irons, hands and waist chains were constructed of chain and 4” ball bearings. All nine figurines rest on a rectangular steel base.
55” length
17” height (figures) 11” height base
9” width
Chain smoker
We all miss those old, dirty, nasty-looking ashtrays of yore!!!
Dimensions:
3.5” height
4” length
3” width
confluence
This piece is a maquette for a larger sculpture that attempts to represent the fluidity and convergence of rivers - literal and figural.
Dimensions:
16” height
4.5” length
2” width
Cookie Lady
The Cookie Lady was inspired by the moms, aunts, grannies, and the generous neighbor from childhood who could be counted on to send love on a dessert plate filled with tastey delights.
Lenght 7”
Height 14”
Width 7”
couple heart hug
The figures in this loving couple wear their heart on their sleeve. This piece is another fun experiment in creating an intimate expression from a small block of unformed metal.
Dimensions:
5.5” height
1.5 length
1.5” width
death
Death has no known face.
Devil music
Dictator
This is a small but realistic sculpture of the most famous mortar that was used during the American Civil War. (It was so large that it traveled on its own railroad flat car.)
Dimensions:
5.5” height
6” length
9” width
the downtown clowns
duck
Here’s an example of anthropomorphism. Imagine a duck wearing a hat, as if it were human. People enjoy dressing their pets in human-like clothing because they see human qualities in animals.
Dimensions:
4” height
2” length
2” width
Excalibur
My childhood fascination with the legendary sword of King Arthur inspired this.
Dimensions:
10.5” height
6” length
5” width
First knight
Is he Anglo, or is he Saxon? And to whom is he pledging his fealty? What does he look like behind the armor? This piece is about the mystery and archaic nature of the concept of kingdom, caste, and loyalty.
Dimensions:
10” height
2.5” length
5” width
exhaustion
This figure is kneeling in a state of exhaustion. Though the figure is abstract in nature, it connotes a critical human condition.
Dimensions:
8” height
17” length
5” width
flowering tree
I call this the love tree in bloom. The sculpture is the blend of abstraction and literalness.
Dimensions:
12” height
4” length
2” width
the gangster
Inspired by the iconic gangsters of the early 20th century, I wanted this piece to evoke a caricature of criminality and violence that is particularly American.
Dimensions:
16” height
7” length
3” width
The gift
This piece, whose focal point is an oversized ball, is meant to create ambivalence as to who is giving and who is receiving, thereby suggesting a spirit of shared generosity and delight between child and elder.
Dimensions:
6” height
6.5” length
1.5” width
Golem
The Golem is a supernatural entity that sprang from the Earth, according to Old Testament.
Have you hugged your mother today, Norman?
This sculpture was inspired by my childhood horror from the movie Psycho, staring Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates. It simultaneously connotes a sense of horror and humor.
Dimensions:
59” height
20” length
7” width
Winter Bloom
In Bloom
I picked up these plow boards from a dairy barn that was being dismantled in St. Albans, Mo. in the 1980s. Years later, these metal petals gave rise to this multi-bloom perennial that weathers every season. Other flower parts include gears, ball bearings and the steering column of a model T car.
Dimensions:
Height 60”
Circumference 54”
in the land of still
jackhammer
Anyone who has seen an individual using a jackhammer would recognize the implied power, force, and physicality required of this working man.
Dimensions:
17” height
6” length
6” width
Jack in the box
This sculpture is a permutation of jack in the box. The spread of the arms as well as the height of the head may make the viewer wonder how this figure fit into its box, which is a nod the magic of the traditional childhood toy. The piece is composed of brass and steel and features an operable crank.
Dimensions:
10” height
10” length
7” width
King Maker
An abstract sculpture that implies more than simply design elements.
Dimensions:
8.5” height
3.5” length
.5” width
last tap
This piece, featuring a derby, tap shoes and cane, represents the final earthly remains of a vaudeville dancer. The base of the sculpture suggests an unlit stage—the bygone era of vaudeville.
Lloyd
A portrait of Lloyd, the cigar smoker.
lunARTICKINGS
This is a very large-scale outdoor sculpture that slyly implies the old myth that gazing at the Man In The Moon will lead to becoming a “lunatic.” The piece has many parts that move. If you look carefully, you will see the face of the Man In The Moon. We should all acknowledge the many earthly influences created by Our Moon.
man holding ball on platter
This sculpture shows the human quality of sharing or serving others, using a simple and parsimonious approach to describe higher order human behavior.
Dimensions:
5.5” height
1.5” length
1.5” width
maquette abstract
This miniature abstract piece is a model for a sculpture-park sized sculpture.
Dimensions:
8.5” height
3.5” length
3.5” width
Maquette
A small piece that could be made into a larger-sized sculpture.
Dimensions:
3.5” height
1” length
1” width
mask
Steel.
Meditation
A figure, arms outward in circular fashion, rests on a bed of sharp metal, suggesting the dynamic power of a synchronized mind and body to create a sense of strength and calm.
8” height
5” length
2” width
monk
Religious dogma tends to be abstract. Thus, the monk appears in this sculpture as an abstraction of faith.
Dimensions:
12” height
4” length
2” width
moonlight over Pyramids
This is a hanging sculpture that is meant to evoke a mirage-like quality of the moon ascending over the pyramids. The geometrics of figure and ground evoke a sense of ancient timelessness and space.
Mother & Infant
My intent is to capture one of the most natural and instinctive human postures - a mother holding her baby. Because this is such an intimate and gentle connection, I was surprised by what the simplicity of the original pipe piece lent in creating this expression of closeness.
Dimensions:
10” height
4” length
4” width
motorbike 1
This simplistic design lends a sense of high-speed rotation of the wheels, even though the bike is at rest.
Dimensions:
6” height
11” length
.5” width
motorbike 2
This is the fantasy-style bike built for the entire family.
Dimensions:
6” height
13” length
1” width
motorbike 3
- CHopper
This is my foray into “custom” bike- building. It features the iconic and appropriate swagger of an outlaw bike.
Dimensions:
11” height
19” length
2” width
the oven
This early sculpture was my first attempt at addressing the horror of the Holocaust. Prominent features include a singular oven and noose within a background of religious iconography. Empty windows on the building suggest a place of emptiness and a quality of unseen suffering. Perhaps the most horrific truth of this piece is its absence of humanity.
Pelican on pier
This sculpture best represents an example of drawing in metal. I like to think of it an a three-dimensional illustration. It evokes a sense of serene isolation.
Dimensions:
13.5” height
2.5” length
2” width
penguin
We all know about Mr. Peanut, now there’s Mr. Penguin, my “contribution” to the advertising world. Corpulent and humorful, this sculpture was curated into the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tenn, where it was purchased by a private collector.
The picture booth
Before selfies, there were picture booths. This sculpture uses an electric light to provide a sense of intimacy between the mother and her infant child. People need their memories.
Pistoleer Extraordinaire
Richard “Dead-Eye Dick” Diamond
Beginning with the early Westerns, films, and dime novels of my youth, I’ve never lost my fascination for this part of American history so filled with the romance of legend and myth. I wanted to create a sculpture that would embody the mythical spirit of the folkloric gun slinger - a lone figure, half calm and half crazed, rustic yet swaggerly, and ready for action.
Dimensions:
19” height
10” length
4” width
ptsd
repose Man
An abstract maquette that defines a state of calmness and quietude. The design emphasizes the importance of the figure and ground relationship.
Dimensions:
5.5” height
4” length
1” width
The rolling Ark of the covenant
Although no one knows where the Ark is, or exactly what it looks like, it has been said that the Ark has traveled through distant lands. Hence, I’ve given the Ark wheels. This Ark is adorned in hieroglyphic-like imagery.
Dimensions:
10.5” height
6” length
2” width
seal balancing ball
What can be more ironic than a seal balancing a ball on his nose for the pleasure of human beings?
Dimensions:
5.5” height
3.5” length
3.5” width
Shaman
One who walks the earth creating magic in his wake.
shark
Using the iconic symbol of Christianity’s fish, I’ve added a fin-like appendage, giving it a shark-like appearance.
Dimensions:
3” height
3” length
1.5” width
snake
This is serpent is among my smallest creations.
Dimensions:
2.5” height
1” length
1” width
synchronosis
torah
This sculpture, a Torah-Menorah, is the first of three interpretations of the iconic Menorah design.
tractor 1
The tractor represents an essential tool of the agricultural aspect of the industrial revolution, which has served figuratively as a tool to feed the United States and the rest of the world. Although the tractor has evolved over time from its original design, it still represents the American farmer’s intimate proximity to the earth.
Dimensions:
14” height
20” length
13” width
tractor 2
The body of this tractor is composed of diverse metal parts, including sewing machine wheels, door hinges, a vice, and rock grinding bits. Not only does the sculpture move on all four wheels, it also has moveable parts, specifically the engine compartment doors, which life up, thereby exposing the engine.
Dimensions:
14” height
26” length
7” width
tractor 3
This is an elemental and archetypal design of the John Deere tractor. Its simplicity of form is congruent with its raw conquering of the earth.
Dimensions:
9” height
10” length
4” width
train engine
This engine is part of a six-piece train sculpture that includes a coal car, oil tanker, mail car, box car and caboose. The sculpture was constructed with steel plate and found metal. I spent two years completing the train.
Dimensions: Each car is approximately 15”-30” length, 16” height and 7” width
train cars
What is a train without its cars? Each car has a basic function of being a mobile supply line.
toucan
This large-beaked tropical bird was built from a discarded shovel, steel pipe, and parts from an axel. It also rotates in a circle and is one of my earliest sculptural constructions.
Dimensions:
31” height
11” length
9” width
under lock & Key
Walking Wounded
I wanted to create a figure that represents a WWI doughboy. The tremendous bravery and suffering in trench warfare that these soldiers endured should never be forgotten. I wanted to make the figure ghost-like in order to elicit a haunting feeling to show the lasting toll that all wars have, both physically and psychologically, on human beings.
51” height
18” length
11”width
weeping angel
Though many may feel that angels don’t exist, here’s one who acutely weeps over the human condition. The book represents mankind’s history of sorrow and horror.
what comes out of your sewer at night
Inspired by a bad dream and real-life plumbing nightmare, this piece attempts to put some fun into the bowels of our subterranean infrastructure, literally and figuratively. You never know what comes out of your sewer pipe at night.
14” height
6.5” length
8” width
wilbur
I wanted to pay tribute to one of the most used and misunderstood creatures alive. By placing him in a garden of flowers— a sanctuary of beauty, I hoped to encourage people to view our livestock, on which we so depend, in a manner that is dignified and worthy of respect.
Dimensions:
21” height
12” length
19” width
windy city
Inspired by the great skyscrapers of Chicago, Windy City attempts to capture the interplay of the 20th-century steel high-rise amid the natural force of wind.
Dimensions:
Height: 43”
Width/Length: 30”
Depth: 6”
