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Photo by Jake Dobkin
While a Tom Otterness sculpture can really brighten up the dark underground of New York, for his latest installation he's shedding some sunlight on his work. The above was just installed in DUMBO near the pedestrian exit to the Brooklyn Bridge.
This won't be the first time Otterness has been above ground, of course. Remember his temporary 2004 installation that spanned Broadway from 60th to 168th Streets? And in 2005 his Humpty Dumpty floated way above ground in the Thanksgiving Day Parade. His work has even been popping out of the water off Roosevelt Island, towering over Broadway and lounging on lampposts.
As for this latest installation, the 7-foot sculpture will be on display through January 4th, 2009
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Cool. I like it.
I don't know how anyone can call his sculptures cute. If you look closely they are fucking gross. Look at the one with the smiley face chick with big boobs riding on a pedophile on all fours. sick.
Jen and Jake,
Why do you keep promoting this guy? Look up his "Dog Kill Piece" and maybe you'll change your mind. Why would an "artist" kill a defenseless dog? It makes no sense. If you're cat lovers replace the cat for a dog. Come on this guy has no remorse and his idiot "assistants" do all his work. Tom speak up!
Otterness ain't doin it for me...
[3], why do people hunt for fun? Eh, most people are only offended because a dog is cute and friendly. I don't think people would react the same way if he killed a bug or a fish.
"Otterness": both a noun and an adjective. BTW I like his work a lot; especially that money bag at the 14th Street and 8th Ave subway station staircase that's polished by countless hands rubbing over it for good luck.
[5] I agree. I don't thing people would react the same way if he killed a bug or a fish.
#[3]
Wow. Most of us have done shameful things as art school creeps, but to have such an awful, unwashable plague on your resume...
When asked (in an interview by Candice Bergen - found on his site) where he get's his inspiration from, he pauses and seems to want to say, "I am creating great whimsy for the world, hoping to somehow make up for this unforgivable bit of suffering I caused long ago, when I was an angry, talentless piece of shit".
Still - I love his work - and I hope he contributes generously to animal rescue charities.
the dude shot a dog to death? wow. I always felt there was something really sinister about his work. SOmething really child molester creepy.
It is all fruit from a poison tree. Anyone who kills an innocent dog and calls it art is a sick bastard and anything that subhuman scum produces deserves to be dumped in the East River instead of venerated as art. There is a special place in hell for this asshole.
The regrets of a stupid youth weigh far more heavily on the individual than any guilt society could assign. If Otterness is the type of artist with an understanding of humanity that his work displays, he is probably more sick over that act than anyone could try to make him.
I like the sculptures, but if he killed a dog I would never ever support him in any capacity.
Dog lovers are so annoying.
@Mr. Hogarty [11]
Well said.
Having been a fan of Tom Otterness, I was horrified to only now hear about this.
Reading an acknowledgment of his own regret is comforting, but I think I'd enjoy the aesthetic of his work regardless.
Readers might like to know that Mr. Otterness keeps a dog in his studio.
I do like his sculptures.
BUT
He killed a dog in the 70's?
Not much about this atrocity, at all.
He seems remoresful, but he in deed should be fully comited to animal rescue operations, or be a "piece of art" himself.