Jim Gary

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Jim Gary (March 17, 1939-1939 – January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor best known for his large, colorful dinosaur models made from salvaged automobile parts.

These sculptures were usually finished with automotive paint, but some were left to develop a natural patina outside of display. His fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art, as well as abstracts, was also recognized internationally for his fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art.

Gary's sculptures and life figures featured intricate use of stained glass, and his works were often composed of, or contained, hardware, machine parts, and tools.

In several jobs, he used painted steel, it being his metal of choice. At a sidewalk show in New York in the early 1960s, one of Jacques Lipchitz's most popular sculptures, Universal Woman, a life-size figure of a woman entirely made of hardware, gained the admiration of a woman made entirely of hardware.

Both are modernist sculptors.

In its electronic version of the Washington Post's 2006 tribute to Gary at his death, the Washington Post included a zoom image from their files.

In his article Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: 400 Years of Artists in America, a common library art resource, a 1971 museum display of his fine art in Washington, D.C., was included in his list.

Gary was regarded as a hero in the arts by the Asbury Park Press in 2011. [1] He was born in Sebastian, Florida, but from early infancy, he lived in Colts Neck, New Jersey, and considered it his hometown.

Joe Gary, a resident of nearby Farmingdale, was the only sculptor ever invited to exhibit a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., which opened on April 12, 1990.

Time said in January 2006 that Gary's work "delighted children as well as curators, including those at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, where he had an outstanding solo show in 1990." (22) On Sunday, January 22, 2006, ABC News with George Stefanopoulos broadcast a video tribute to Jim Gary.

Jim Gary, 66; Artist Who Created Playful Dinosaur Skeletons From Car Parts, was compared by some commentators to Pablo Picasso's famous bull's head made from a bicycle seat and handlebars in the Los Angeles Times during the same month.

On January 19, 2006, the New York Times devoted half of a page to Gary's newsworthy obituary.

Due to his international fame, his death was covered around the world, and the Gary obituary ran the next day in the arts and leisure section of the worldwide distributed English language newspaper, the International Herald Tribune, with the name Jim Gary, Sculptor in Metal.

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Early career

He was reassured of the quality of his art by the compliments he received in the case with Lipchitz (who made a scientific suggestion for a better way to prepare a stand for the life-sized torso Gary had on display), and later moved the gallery to Red Bank, where he exhibited the work of other artists as well as his own creation. Gerald Lubeck, a multitalented artist, was one of the many notable artists on display at Gary's fledgling gallery. Jim Gary and Virginia Laudano (who later became the gallery's director and now is an art center in Florida) taught classes at the gallery.

Fine art by Gary Paget—such as the life-size Universal Woman, bronze portraits, and busts — has consistently received top awards in New York and the immediate states' professional exhibition circuits. In several of his formal sculptures, he used stained glass. It was often used for accentuation, but Stained Glass Woman with Tattoo was entirely made of multi-colored glass sections welded together. He was asked to create complete suites of rooms, integrating his sculpture with furniture he built. Ornate metal doors were made to order for commissions. He would often create fine art for their offices from clients' products. Brewers especially loved giving huge seasonal wreaths he made from recycled cans. Brass fish were found in one of his creations swimming through copper seagrass. Some of his sculptures were kinetic. Client commissions were often requested simply for his interpretation of their desired topic.

Several of his many architectural works include his baptismal font for Saint Benedict's Catholic Church in nearby Holmdel, a Holocaust memorial in Springfield, his life-sized nudes in metal and stained glass for the Monmouth County Opera Society, and the September 11 memorial in Colts Neck.

Jim Gary said he discovered that these parts of his distinctive automobiles resembled anatomical structures of insects, large birds, reptiles, and even dinosaur bones. He began to create sculptures of those animals early in his career by assembling the vehicle parts into almost life-size models. His large dinosaur sculptures were made using as many as eight to ten vehicles [3]; the unaltered parts are identifiable. In several of his sculptures, common tools became pivotal structures. Volkswagens have metamorphosed into turtles and prehistoric dinosaurs.

Gary had to invent equipment to build and move the massive sculptures, as well as special ones that featured cranes, in order to carry the sculptures around his rural workshop and then load them onto trucks for transportation. When no standard ones were appropriate for his needs, he also relied on blacksmith skills to produce unique hand tools.

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