Josh Brooke Cote
P.O. Box 93
Blachly, Oregon 97412
joshcotesculpture@gmail.com
541.927.3430
Links:
http://www.salvillano.com/
http://www.vonchandler.com/
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My studio is the converted city water treatment plant! 2 immense steel water tanks converted to a home/studio.
First Place, Sculpture, Sedona Arts Festival 2010
Best of Metal, Tempe Arizona Festival of the Arts 2009
Josh Brooke Cote 102 N. Water St., Louisiana Missouri, 63353 USA joshcotesculpture@gmail.com
"Very, very nice work. Disturbing, realistic, unique...just so impressive."
-Micah Nathan
Saul Bellow Prize winning author of Losing Graceland
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My studio is the converted city water treatment plant! 2 immense steel water tanks converted to a home/studio.
Awards:
First Place Mixed Media 3D, Gold Coast Art Festival 2012
Best In Show Finalist, Uptown Art Festival 2012
Best In Show, Spokane Artfest 2011
Best In Show, Spokane Artfest 2011
Best of Metal, Tempe Arizona Festival of the Arts 2009
Please email for pricing: joshcotesculpture@gmail.com
About the Artist
Son of a watercolorist, I grew up surrounded by art, artists, and immense creativity. I spent my youth painting with my father and traveling with my family to art fairs on the east coast. Later, after studying painting and drawing at The University of Michigan School of Art, I became a self-taught sculptor. I soon became interested in Alexander Calder and wire sculpture as it bridges both linear drawing and sculpture, the two and three dimensions.
I create sculptures utilizing hand-modeled resin, cold-worked wire, found objects, glass, welded steel and negative space. Each sculpture is unique. Resin is hand-modeled and painted, then integrated with found objects, glass and recycled wire. With only needle-nosed pliers, the wire is cold-worked, painstakingly hand-manipulated, wrapped and woven to itself. All copper and aluminum wire is recycled. Natural patinas are obtained on the finished sculptures with acid.
My sculpture attempts to explore the boundaries and relationships between man, woman and nature, centered on our relationship to the environment. Fusing elements of folk art, surrealism and realism, ideas arise from dreams, observation and nature. I often work with themes of transformation, nurturing and regeneration. My creative energy is about growth and perceiving this energy with intuition. The challenge, the art, is attempting to translate this mystery through the process of my sculpture.
My work resides in private and corporate collections worldwide.
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
-E. Annie Proulx
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Shipping News
"...redolent of the earth..."
-Jim Harrison
Author of Legends of the Fall
2013 Art Show Schedule - more shows to be added soon
Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival
Woodlands, TX
April 13-14, 2013
www.woodlandsartsfestival.com
Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts
Oklahoma City, OK
April 23-28, 2012
www.artscouncilokc.com
New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival
New Orleans, LA
May 2-5, 2013
www.nojazzfest.com
Des Moines Arts Festival
Des Moines, IA
June 28-30, 2013
www.desmoinesartsfestival.org
Orchard Lake Fine Art Show
West Bloomfield, MI
July 26-28, 2013
www.hotworks.org
Port Clinton Art Festival
Highland Park, IL
August 24-25, 2013
www.amdurproductions.com
Art Fair on the Square
Lake Forest Park, IL
September 1-2, 2013
www.deerpathartleague.org
The Historic Shaw Art Fair
St. Louis, MO
October 5-6, 2013
www.shawartfair.com
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