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27 1/2" high & wall-hanging. Made from a 1950's vacuum cleaner, copper wire, other found-objects, paint and hardware.
Sold at the Kentuck Festival of the Arts 2006
7'10' Tall. Wall-hanging. The wood was found as is, except for the horizontal cut made to form the cross (the vertical slot was already there). This was an antique shingle splitting bench. You sat straddling the neck area and with a mallet you struck a piece of wood between metal blades. The wood split creating a shingle that fell through the vertical slot. The face parts & halo are various found objects and the wings are '57 Chevy fender skirts. Deterioration in the wood under one eye takes the form of a tear drop.
Exhibited and sold at Atlanta's Folk Fest in 2005
...too lazy to repair that hole you put in the Sheetrock or are you looking for a door placard to easily indicate the little boys room from the little girls? Well look no further - His and Hers robo masks are here to help. They're definitely a pair - She's lookin' a bit disheveled still wearing her curlers and he obviously he's got something on his mind. Each mask measures 9" wide by 18" tall and is fabricated on a pair of vintage kid's snowshoes. Wired and ready hang!
27" tall. Made from a cast iron steam radiator section, saw blade, brass ball, other found objects and hardware.
***sold***
No permission given to re-post this photo on any other website.
5' 10" tall. Freestanding. True-Blue Beulah is from my family of I.roning B.oard ladys. Made from an ironing board, other found-objects, paint, hardware and live flowers that change seasonally, (she currently holds petunias).
Sold and now living in New Orleans.
Found Object Sculpture and Assemblage.
Clockwise from upper left - Bobo-Mo,
Tanda, Penelope Anne Nichols, Java
The Mutt, Wison Pickett & Healer In The Wheel.
11 1/2" high. Wall-hanging. Made from a parking meter and some of its internal parts, as well as other found-objects, copper wire and hardware.
***** sold *****
18" high. Wall-hanging. Made from an antique hand-made block pulley. This is the other half of the block pulley I previously turned in to "Willie Pullum" which can be seen at this next link. www.flickr.com/photos/jimshoresart/728513561/
*** sold at Kentuck 2007 ***
14" high. Wall-hanging. Made from an antique hand-made wooden block pulley, other found objects and hardware. The wood piece is one half of the block pulley. It was held together by hand carved wooden dowels, which can be seen on the top and bottom. It was was held up by a rope that fell in to the carved grooves.
**** sold *****
These fish are cut out of car tags (license plates) and hang on a wall. The eyes are bottle caps and the fin is a piece of tag left over from the cut-out.
None of the Tag-Fish shown are available, but I do take orders for others and folks mail me their tags to make fish for them.
If interested in having your own Tag-Fish or giving one as a gift, email me at JimShoresArt@yahoo.com for more information.
JSA-35
Approx. 4' tall. Made from a 1931 Ford grill, rusty sheet metal, other found-objects and hardware.
Sold through the Archer-Locke Gallery ( Atlanta ) in 1997
Found Object Sculpture and Assemblage.
Clockwise from upper left - The Devil's Brew,
Radiangel, The Singer On Stage, Mauvia Feeds
The Birds, Rad-Man & Mahalia Sings.
No permission given to re-post this photo on any other website.
6' 5" tall. Made from an ironing board, coffee percolator and other found objects.
***sold***
20" tall. Wall-hanging. Made from a stainless steel hanging bracket, Clarke County Georgia car tag, door hardware, bottle caps, copper wire and hardware.
***Sold at "Around Back At Rocky's Place 3rd Annual Folk Art Family Reunion"***
Named in honor of Georgine Clarke, founder of the Kentuck Festival of the Arts.
40 1/2" tall x 29 1/2" wide. Made from assorted found objects and hardware.
Since uploading this photo, the head has been separated from the base and sold as a wall-hanging piece.
Sold at House of Blues - Orlando, Folk Art Festival - 2006.
(N/R/D) JSA555-000-8583
Frenchie is on his leash (made of 60's-70's era pull-tabs) so he doesn't run off and get into mischief.
Approx. 27" long. From my series of Can-ines. Made of squashed soda cans, French Market coffee can, soup can, bottle-caps and hardware.
***** sold *****
36" wide. Face made from a 5 gallon bucket lid and other found objects. The sun rays are 3' unraveled sections of cable that support telephone poles.
*** sold ***
Figurative found-object sculpture. 20" tall ...............................................
sold @ Riverfest Weekend's Folklife Village 4-30-06.
47" tall. Made from a Victorian era cast iron steam radiator section, saw mill blade, painted stainless steel float, other found objects and hardware.
***sold***
42" high, free standing. Made from wood sand-casting forms, wood tray, vintage wood stove section, other found objects and hardware.
not available
12 3/4" high. Wall-hanging. Made from a New York license plate, assorted found-objects, epoxy putty, paint and hardware.
***sold***
Made out of Dr Pepper and Diet Dr Pepper cans, hardware, flesh tone (hands & face) & brown (mustache) paint. The hands, hair and face parts are cut from the cans. About 5' tall and wall-hanging.
Made in the early 90's.
This was the first piece I made using cans this way. To see some of my can creations that came after, visit my "Can - do" set.
12" Tall. Wall-hanging. Made from the wheel of an old foot powered Singer sewing machine, door hardware, other hardware and copper wire.
This piece stems from my interest in Native American Shamans/Healers and relates to Medicine Wheels
*not available*
Made from a circuit board, computer plug-in port, VCR parts, 50's chrome car headlight rim & door handle, copper wire, scrap copper sheeting and hardware.
*** Sold at Good Folk Fest '07 ***
Artist: Cynthia Weitzel
Found Object Sculpture (Iron, steel, brass, and aluminum)
$300
This reminds me a lot of a bee landing on a flower
Photographed at the Anderson Center at Tower View
163 Tower View Drive
Red Wing Minnesota
Saturday December 2nd, 2023
34 1/2" tall. Her name relates to what her head was made from - an old parking meter from Sanford, Fl that took only - pennies and nickels. The meter has been turned upside down. In it's upright position, you would have lifted what is now the tongue, dropped in a penny or nickel and turned the handle (that is now the nose) to start the meter running. The body is an old piece of equipment from a dentists office. It's the pedestal base for attachments, such as a spit sink and lighting. Her hair is partially unwound copper lightning-rod conductor wire.
***** sold through the American Folk Art Museum's gift shop in NYC *****
This textbook published in 2009 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston is using photos of my work on pages 230 & 231 .
Ironing Board Lady on display at Slotin's Folk Fest 2012.
No permission given to post this image on sites other than Flickr.
Made from an ironing board and other found objects
***sold***
14" high, Wall-hanging. Made from an old car air-filter cover,
running lights from an old bus, other found objects and hardware.
Sold at Slotin's Folk Fest 2007
23" high. Wall-hanging. Made from the base of an antique spinning wheel. The nose is a piece of one of it's broken legs. The eyes are holes that supports for the wheel went in to. Antique horse-shoe nails for hair. Except for cleaning, the wood is as found.
*** sold ***
44" long. Made from a street light cover, aluminum newspaper engraving sheets, aluminum tape, bondo, paint and hardware.
***** not available *****
20" high. Wall-hanging. Made from a satellite dish, heating elements from an electric oven, stove top burners & an electric clothes dryer (hair), gas grill temperature gauge (mouth), stove temperature knobs, hardware and paint.
16 1/2" tall. Found object sculpture based on a Kleig light, Kleig lights were invented by the Kleigl Brothers of NY. The light fixture dates to the 30's-40's. The shape of the fixture is as I found it. I added face parts, paint, and hardware. To turn the top of the head in to a hat, I painted it black and added a brim.
This is the barn I built and set up for Doo-Nanny 2011.
Thanks again to Butch Anthony for putting on such a great event and giving the artists the place and space to be creative with the environments they build.
This has become a permanent installation in my yard..
26" high x 10" wide. Wall-hanging. Assorted found-objects
mounted on stained scrap plywood.
Sold at Good Folk Fest, Louisville, Ky, 2006
Andy is the model Bot Scout. He’s always prepared and always does his best. As a dedicated scout, he can start a fire with only a couple of sticks, pitch a tent in 45 seconds flat, and find his way home if dropped in the middle of a forest (although he’ll have to hop his way home).
Bonus: With his handy storage body, you can store what you need to always be prepared. Become an honorary Bot Scout today.
I was approached by an advertising agency to come up with a series of robots to help promote a new post consumer waste recycled product. Here's my first prototype...Attack of the Noddle Bot!
44" long - made from stainless steel hydraulic hose, epoxy putty, mardi-gras beads (eyes), paint and a steel rod inside to give it the strength to be used as a walking stick or cane.
This piece has a special place in my heart. I made it to accompany me to the opening of "Coming Home! Self-Taught Artists, the Bible and the American South" at MOBIA's (Museum of Biblical Art) inaugural exhibition, where my found-object sculpture would be part of the exhibition. Cousins of my Cane Snake were part of the piece titled "Taking Up Serpents, Speaking in Tongues, Singing God's Praises". This was the third and final stop of the touring exhibition. During the opening I was introduced to the High Museum of Art's Folk Art Curator who informed me, that when the exhibition closed my piece would become part of their permanent Folk Art collection.
NFS