JOSH COTE FINE SCULPTURE

Chinese Water Dragon
Copper and steel wire
55 inches long
2009

Steel Horse
34 inches long
2009

Steel Ravens
2009

Vulture

2009

Steel Cat

2009

Steel Horses

2009

Dragon

50 inches long 30 inches tall

Steel and copper wire

2009

Archaeoptyrx
24 inches tall, 36 inches long, 17 inches wide
Steel wire
2009

Hungry Cat
18 inches tall
Steel and copper wire
2009

Jackrabbit
2009

Grazing Horse
Galvanized Steel Wire
2009

Steel Golden Eagle
32 inches tall
Steel wire
2009

Steel Golden Eagle (detail)

Self Portrait As a Wire Artist
Life size
Steel wire, 2009

Steel wire Raven

17 inches long 12 inches tall

2009

Toad and Bee
Steel and copper wire
2009

Rusty Jackrabbit Sees the Light
Steel and copper wire
2009

Raven
22 inches long
Steel wire
2009

Tea Toad
Steel
2009

The Drifter
Recycled aluminum and copper wire
36 inches tall, 46 inches long, 24 inches wide
2008

Standing Nude
Aluminum
2008

Winged Dog
Aluminum
2008

The Bunny Has the Key
Steel and copper wire
2008

Bad Dog With Broken Chain
Aluminum
2008

Rooster
Steel
2008

Aluminum Golden Eagle
2008

Aluminum Heron
2008

Talk To the Toad
Steel and copper wire
2009
Inspired by Ray Bradbury's story Dial Double Zero, inside of this retro telephone sits an intelligent techno toad.

Steel Owl
36 inches wide
2008

Copper Sperm Whale
48 inches long

Life size Billy Goat
48 inches tall
Aluminum and copper wire
2008

Giant Octopus
60 inch diameter
Aluminum and copper wire
2008

Copper Raven
45 inches wide, 2008

The Grim Reaper Rides a Girl's Bike,
Hand modeled concrete over welded steel rebar
72 inches tall, 1000 lbs., 2007

Silent Sally Saves a Toad
Hand-modeled concrete over welded steel rebar
72 inches tall, 30 inches wide, 30 inches deep
2006

Silent Owl

30 inches tall

Granite

2006

Salmon Man and The End of Urban Sprawl or How the Salmon Can Win If They Only Are Willing to Change

Wire Woman at the Beach

Recycled aluminum wire

48 inches tall, 30 inches long, 25 inches wide

2007.

Armored Toad,

Recycled galvanized steel, aluminum rivets

31 inches long, 19 inches tall, 38 inches wide

2007.

Copper wire salmon,

36 inches long, 20 inches tall, 6 inches wide

2007.

The Dream of the Forest Pool
Hand modeled concrete over welded steel rebar
96 inches tall, 800 lbs.

"The Fish Goddess" Cedar, 96 inches long 18 inches tall, 2005
Josh Brooke Coté

Son of a watercolor artist, I have created art all of my life. After studying art at the University of Michigan School of Art, I began experimenting with sculpture. I have worked in wood, stone, concrete and now almost exclusively in wire. I fell into wire sculpture almost accidentally after I tore apart a travel trailer and had a tangle of copper wiring. Instead of throwing it away, I made my first wire sculpture, a salmon.
I create intricately woven, hand-made wire sculptures using recycled aluminum wire, recycled copper wire or steel wire. With only needle-nosed pliers, the wire is painstakingly hand-manipulated, wrapped and woven to itself, no welding or soldering is used. Every sculpture is unique, and not mass-produced. Using negative space, combined with the linear nature of the wire, the finished work is much like a line drawing in sculptural form.
My sculpture attempts to explore the boundaries and relationships between man, woman and nature, centered on our relationship to the environment. Fusing elements of surrealism and realism, ideas arise from dreams, observation and nature. I often work with themes of transformation, nurturing and regeneration. My work has been called “Beautiful” by Pulitzer-Prize winning author E. Annie Proulx and “Redolent of the earth” by the novelist Jim Harrison. I use recycled copper and aluminum electric wire for my wire sculptures. My work attempts to glorify the natural world in which I live and depend upon creatively and physically. My creative energy is about growth and perceiving this energy with intuition and the challenge, the art, is attempting to translate this mystery through the process of my sculpture. My work has been shown nationally and regionally, winning various awards over the years and remains in private and corporate collections.
I live on a small farm in the coastal mountains on the Oregon Coast outside of Eugene with my wife and three rescue border collies.

The wire artist visits his muse, Fremont Bridge, Seattle

Praise for the art of Josh Brooke Cote':

"...beautiful..."
-E. Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News

"...redolent of the earth..."
-Jim Harrison
Author of Legends of the Fall