Awake photos on Flickr

1

©jackiecrossley

© All rights reserved. This image may not be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means, including electronic, mechanical, photocopying & recording without my written permission. Thank you.

Dreamers Awake by Cheryl Dumcum

1 4

Tom Otterness (b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks in New York---

most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world. His style is very cartoonish and cheerful, and the forms of his sculptures often consist of many blobs and pipes, giving them a humorous look. These sculptures depict, among other things, huge pennies, pudgy characters in business suits with moneybag heads, helmeted workers holding giant tools, and crocodiles crawling out from under sewer covers. The main theme of his work seems to be the struggle of the little man against the Capitalist machine in a difficult and strange city.

As primarily a public artist, Otterness' has shown popular exhibitions in locations across the United States, including New York City, Indianapolis, and Beverly Hills. His studio is located in the DUMBO neighborhood in Brooklyn.

His most recent exhibition of public sculpture in Grand Rapids, Michigan is his largest to date, featuring more than 40 works across two miles of the city's downtown area and at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park.

Otterness is best known to New Yorkers for his "Life Underground" series of sculptures, which are primarily located in the 14th St/8th Avenue subway station, which was commissioned in 2000 and fully installed by 2002.

Journalist Gary Indiana criticized Otterness for an independent work done while part of the East Village art scene in the mid-eighties called "Shot Dog Piece", in which Otterness allegedly "adopted a dog and then shot it to death for the fun of recording his infantile, sadistic depravity on film." When student Matthew Goad, a candidate for student government president at Wichita State University, learned of this act, Wichita State began questioning a USD$450,000 commission, which would cost an additional USD$150,000 for shipping, however, at present it looks as if the project continued may as planned. Otterness commented that "In 1977, I was a young artist having a very rough time. I had anger at myself and at the world. What I did was symbolic of how I was feeling internally and it is something I would never do today.

1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas

1970 Art Students League, New York

1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York

PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)

2004 Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA; to be installed in 2003

2002 Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit, 14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, NY; to be installed 2002

2002 Untitled, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ

2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children's Hospital, Bronx, NY

2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NYC

1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN

Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)

Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA

The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)

Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA

Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)

1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (Architect)

1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)

1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY

1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California

Awake by Nirjan Munshi

4

- at Bagbazar Sarbojoneen

Awake by Josh Hopkins

5 7

Lucy finally starting to wake up from the sedative.

awake sheep by Ilya Danilov

22 5

nikon fm2 + vivitar 70-210 2.8

fomapan 200

Awake by Jeremy Saglimbeni

1

It's alive!

Awake by Oli Sandler

Ultra-late clubnight - Lightbox LDN

no self portrait by is a belle

15 10

in a sort of twisted way, it's a relief to be back in this photography class, digging into my imagination again.

at the same time, it makes my quest for balance all the more difficult.

Awake by Oli Sandler

1

Ultra-late clubnight - Lightbox LDN

Awake by Alfonso Cr

4 1

Awake all Yellows by Ian Nicholson

7 1

The common yellowthroat lives up to its name. It is one of the more numerous warblers in New Brunswick. As such I don't usually fuss with these guys too much, but this particular bird was quite insistent. He was on a wonderful perch in great light so I felt obligated to take his picture!

An interesting fact about common yellowthroats is each male normally has only one mate in his territory during a breeding season. However, a female’s mating calls often attract other males, and she may mate with them behind her mate’s back.

I photographed this guy along the shore of the Bay of Fundy at the beautiful Irving Nature Park in Saint John, New Brunswick.

Dreamers Awake 7 by Cheryl Dumcum

3