Saturday, September 22, 2012

50 Foot Jesus








Tom's  52 foot Jesus has finally been installed




And though it's not as dramatic as
the 'touchdown Jesus'
that it replaces,
it has a gentle, noble stature.

It looks pretty good !




...and happily all the pieces fit together perfectly








Thursday, June 28, 2012

Stanley the Robot and Gloria





Gurney Journey is a cartoonist's blog to which I've linked for the past 5 years .... but apparently haven't visited for a while, since this post slipped past me last Summer (right around the time I was visiting MJ for the last time)



The cartoonist had engaged Larry Elig to make a three-dimensional figure of one of his sci-fi figures.



And Larry used his unique talent to make this character just a little more weird.







And being totally asleep at the switch, I also missed last Summer's debut of the

Larry Elig blog

featuring a statue of Gloria.







Here's RJ's version.

As you can see, they were working from the same pose, back when their little sculpture group got together in that basement in Walnut Hills.

BTW -- this is one of the statues that I carried off -- back when RJ was giving stuff away -- and it's one of my favorites.





And here's one of my favorite pieces from Larry's blog - in a further exploration of one of RJ's favorite themes: beautiful young women consorting with large animals.

(BTW, This might explain the recent, tragic death of Lonesome George )

Saturday, May 19, 2012

Tom Tsuchiya on the National Mall




Atlas Recycled was
assembled from 14 re-purposed atlases -- and a bunch of re-usable junk from the studio.







for the 2010 Ecosculpt Exhibition on Fountain Square to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.






Since then, he's traveled to Grand Central Terminal in New York City,
and to the National Mall in Washington D.C.
.....with his very own page on Facebook




As some of you may know, Tom was a Classical scholar before he took up sculpture, and this is a rather ingenious way to combine both of his interests.


Jacques Lipchitz



-- as well as reviving the practice of cubism.

John Hebenstreit and the Black Brigade: Part II



The Smale Riverfront Park is having it's opening,

...and as it turns out, it's right next to the same bridge, and right across the river from the George Rogers Clark park where R.J. has his statue of Roebling.

...and it's just a few blocks away from the entrance to Great American Ball Park where Tom Tsuchiya has his statues of Johnny Bench, Joe Nuxhall, etc.

So this part of the world is what might be called "Il Museo di Scuola Milleraccio"