Wood Sculptures

Artists Describing Their Art:

Jerry Cox - Jerry Graduated from WestminsterWilliam Woods College in Fulton Mo in 1978 with a BFa, Jerry concentrated on Sculpture, Drawing and Watercolor. His sculpture work then was mainly wood constructions and carvings. Soon after graduation Jerry began restoring Juke boxes, Slot machines and old arcade memorabilia. He joined the St. Louis Artist Guild, the oldest Art organization west of the Mississippi, 130 years old this year and has been a member since and is now the Vice President. In 1982 Jerry started working for an antique restorer that also built reproduction furniture. In 1986 Jerry started his own business restoring antiques and building furniture. During this time the Furniture as Art movement grew as a craft and Jerry pursued that line of work and still does to this day as his main profession. About 2002 Jerry started using the lathe as an integral part of his sculptural work. The work often starts on the lathe only to be cut, carved and pieced together to form new shapes often with a Christian or Sci fi theme. Today Jerry heads the Fine Wood Division of NewSpace inc, overseeing the production of fine furniture and cabinetry. The sculptures are created is his 1600 square ...

Daryl Stokes - I have been an artist most of my entire life beginning in junior high school. In my early years, I did many sketches and paintings that were realistic subjects. Eventually I became intrigued with impressionism and abstract expressionism which lead me to create an extensive series of expressionistic acrylic paintings and optical designs. In college, I majored in art education and did extensive studies in fine arts, psychology and humanities. After college, I began traveling the US and eventually moved to Monterey, Ca. where I discovered articles created from redwood burls. I became fascinated with the endless array of natural forms inherent in redwood driftwood and burls and I began an entirely new artistic endeavor. For over 20 years, I designed and produced an wide array of redwood furniture ranging from coffee tables, dining tables, bars, chairs, sofas to include floor fountains, sculptured lamp stands, bed frames and many other unique sculptural products. Recently I have developed a new series of contemporary abstract redwood sculptures that are visually dramatic with many subliminal forms resembling animals or containing human characteristics. As the sculptures are viewed from different positions, they change remarkably....

Katrina Brooks - My work focuses on the human relationship with nature. It explores our dependency on our environment and natural resources, while also illuminating our desire to remain separate and disconnected from nature in our everyday lives. Joseph Campbell's theory of separate development explains the reason why different cultures in different parts of the world, which have had no contact with each other, have such similar myths is because certain aspects of the human psyche are common to all of mankind--what is inside us and the need to understand it. These myths share one thing in common, that through death and the sacrifice of the body, the spirit is achieved and life is achieved. All welcome death because without it there cannot be life. It is what unites all living things because all return to the earth in the end. Undoubtedly it was their lack of technology that allowed our ancestors to have this deeper connection than that which we have today. Man created mythology out of a response to the environment in which he lived. Everything natural became sacred to him because he was a part of it and survival forced him to interact with it. This body of...

Daniel Lombardo - My art is first informed by the human figure, its essential vertical presentation with a focus on unique but related frontal and rear views, and the gestalt of interconnected shapes that are both linear and volumetric. It is secondarily informed by totem poles of the Native Americans of the Pacific Northwest and other tribal cultures from around the world, with their stacked and interconnected elements that may represent key figures or concepts in their myths and legends, combined to "tell a tale" or remind of basic cultural tenets. Though my sculptures do not represent any specific events, I imagine my pieces as abstract tales both of personal events or generally themes of human experience. The pieces develop from gestural sketches based on this visual language of interconnected forms merging and diverging usually along a vertical axis. Most recently I have worked in forged steel which has fostered new gestural elements that this material inspires. ...

Tony Maez - All of my artwork reflects my love for the outdoor and my great respect for all of the wonderful creatures in it . I was born and raised in Colorado around hunting and fishing and i now reside in Alaska the Mecca of the outdoors which is a great inspiration for my artwork. ...