Standing NudeAluminum
2008
Winged DogAluminum
2008
The Bunny Has the KeySteel and copper wire
2008
Bad Dog With Broken ChainAluminum
2008
RoosterSteel
2008
Aluminum Golden Eagle2008
Aluminum Heron2008
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First Place, Sculpture, Sedona Arts Festival 2010
Best of Metal, Tempe Arizona Festival of the Arts
Josh Brooke Cote, PO Box 93, Blachly, Oregon 97412 USA 541.927.3430 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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Awards:
Best In Show, Spokane Artfest 2011
Best of Metal, Tempe Arizona Festival of the Arts
Please email for pricing: joshcotesculpture@gmail.com
Represented by:
Van Gogh's Ear Gallery, Prescott, Arizona http://www.vgegallery.com/
The 9th Street Gallery, Newport, Oregon
http://www.the9thstgallery.com/
A Muse Gallery, Sedona, Arizona
http://www.amusesedona.com/
Represented by:
Van Gogh's Ear Gallery, Prescott, Arizona http://www.vgegallery.com/
The 9th Street Gallery, Newport, Oregon
http://www.the9thstgallery.com/
A Muse Gallery, Sedona, Arizona
http://www.amusesedona.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
2012 Art Show Schedule
More show dates to be added as they are announced....
Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival - Woodlands, TX
April 14-15, 2012 www.woodlandsartsfestival.com
Oklahoma City Festival of the Arts - Oklahoma City, OK
April 24-29, 2012 www.artscouncilokc.com
Columbus Arts Festival - Columbus, OH
June 1-3, 2012 www.columbusartsfestival.org
Gold Coast Art Fair at Grant Park - Chicago, IL
June 30-July 1, 2012 www.amdurproductions.com
Port Clinton Art Festival - Highland Park, IL
August 25-26, 2012 www.amdurproductions.com
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