Sculpture Gallery
Tony and “Bill the Otter”.
Living in Oregon has fueled and nourished my desire to create visual art.
The region has breathtaking natural beauty and a wonderfully diverse climate. Plants and animals abound and are a constant source of inspiration, often appearing to be untouched by development.
In contrast, what's been here for millennia is challenged by the industrial and man-made. Dams, logging equipment and concrete--often in states of decay--form a stark counterbalance to what seems timeless, although they have their own kind of beauty.
My art thrives in the interaction between those two landscapes, capturing the tension between the fierce and the fragile, what survives and what surrenders. To me, that represents the balancing act we're all performing on this wildly evolving planet.
Beautiful and bold, hallowed and hollowed. Oh what have we done!
Ceramic, metal coating (Forton, Iron, copper)
2022 (contact Tony for price)
ceramic, metal coating 2021
This ceramic stylized Orca is part of a larger exhibit called “The Whale in the Room” which explores the impact of mankind on the natural world.
In creating this Orca series, I use their form as a mantra that I repeat with structural variations and textural patterns to elicit a sense of disappearing, dissolution and discorporation.
With Subsidence, I wanted to explore a way to evoke implosion. The end result is stylized, segmented, and perhaps evocative of a symbolism that isn’t actually rooted in any tradition.
17”x15”x11”
Ceramic, metallic coating, steel base
Bill the Otter was created with stoneware clay and fired once - then coated with a mixture of acrylic/gypsum/polymer resin (Forton) and metal dust, then cured, oxidized, and finished with a coat of sculpture wax.It sits on a steel base. This sculpture actually sits at 25" in tall including the base
This was a commissioned piece made as an urn to carry the sacred ashes of the clients parents!
Pig Urn- 2020
Ceramic, metallic coating (gypsum, polymer, metal dust)
Vitality (Transient Orca) - 2020
Ceramic, metallic coating (gypsum, polymer, metal dust)
Part of a series I’m creating in response to the struggles of Orca Whales, specifically the “Southern Residents” up here in the Northwest
Relic - 2020
Ceramic, metallic coating (gypsum, polymer, metal dust)
Part of a series Im creating in response to the struggles of Orca Whales, specifically the “Southern Residents” up here in the Northwest
Fractures (Southern Resident)
Ceramic, metallic coating (gypsum, polymer, metal dust)
Part of a series Im creating in response to the struggles of Orca Whales, specifically the “Southern Residents” up here in the Northwest
Fortress - 2019
Part of a series inspired by humankind dependence on and impact upon the natural world. This piece was constructed using organic and inorganic materials with most of the organics (cheese cloth and bamboo) burned off in the kiln, leaving a warped,distressed figure and weathered oxidized surface.
The stars from the TV show “Bones” sipping from Tony’s “skull mugs” at the end of an episode that was first aired in November 2012.
the Mother - 2014
Dimensions: 36" x 17" x 17"
Ceramic, gypsum, wire, paper, acrylic, metallic coating
Mother is survival and surrender, a co-dependent relationship with the natural world.