Where art meets cocktails.

Urban Wildlife was our watering hole in the warehouse district in the late ’80s, and famous for its art collection. I had to have something stupid hanging there. The body and face are lost wax casting and the scales are individually painted and glued fake fingernails. I forget how many but somewhere around 700,000. At least that’s what it felt like at the time.

First I sculpted the face and body out of clay. Then did a negative cast of it with plaster and filled that with epoxy resin and fiberglass. Painted the face and applied the fingernails, painted in cascading shades of red.

Sculpture for Urban Wildlife

THIRD QUARTER 1990