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Jim Gary (March 17, 1939 January 14, 2006) was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts and he was recognized internationally for his fine, architectural, landscape, and whimsical monumental art. He was born in Sebastian, Florida, but lived in Colts Neck, New Jersey from early infancy. At the time of his death he was a resident of nearby Farmingdale.[1]
Jim Gary is the only living sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., which opened on April 12, 1990. In January 2006, Time stated that Gary's work "delighted kids as well as curators, including those at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where he had an acclaimed solo show in 1990."[1] During the same month, on January 24, 2006 the Los Angeles Times reported in an article, Jim Gary, 66; Artist Who Created Playful Dinosaur Skeletons From Car Parts, that some critics compared Jim Gary's sculptures with Pablo Picasso's famous bull's head made from a bicycle seat and handlebars.
One of his works, a life-sized figure of a woman composed entirely of hardware gained the admiration of renowned sculptor Jacques Lipchitz at a sidewalk show in New York in the early 1960s.
Contents
1 Biography
2 Early career
3 International traveling exhibition launched
4 Lectures, media coverage, and annual free display
5 Garysauruses - a neologism
6 See also
7 References
8 Notes
9 External links
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Biography
Although born in Florida, Jim Gary was raised from infancy in Colts Neck, New Jersey. While still at grammar school he moved out of his parents' home, making his own living doing odd jobs. For almost a year he secretly slept in the garage of the Sterner family, a prominent Monmouth County couple, who employed him regularly. Once the family discovered him, they provided space in their home for him. He remained close to them until they died.
From junk parts, Jim Gary built what he needed to get about, first a bicycle and soon姊漮ng before he was old enough to drive on the roads legally姊恥tomobiles. He also developed a deft hand at welding. He competed in gymnastics as a student. After serving in the United States Navy he taught welding and gymnastics in a federal program. Shortly thereafter, applying his welding skills, he began making sculptures that he marketed as architectural elements, and showing his fine art in the New York metropolitan area.
Early career
Reassured of the caliber of his work by the compliments he received in the encounter with Lipchitz (who made a professional suggestion for a better method of preparing a stand for a life-sized torso Gary had on display), he established his gallery, Iron Butterfly, in Colts Neck featuring other artists he selected as well as his own work, later moving the gallery to Red Bank. The multitalented Gerald Lubeck was one such artist featured at Gary's fledgling gallery. Classes were offered at the gallery by Jim Gary and Virginia Laudano.
Gary's fine art姊ch as the life-sized Universal Woman姊琣ll units, bronze portraits, and abstracts consistently won top prizes when submitted in the professional show circuits of New York and the surrounding states. He featured stained glass in many of his formal sculptures. He was commissioned to create entire suites of rooms, integrating his sculpture into furniture he built. Commissions included ornate metal doors made to order. He sometimes used the products of clients to create fine art for their offices. Brewers especially liked to give huge seasonal wreaths he constructed from their original cans. One of his works had brass fish swimming through copper seagrass. Some of his sculptures were kinetic. When other artists began to imitate his work, Gary always changed direction. Commissions from clients often asked merely for his interpretation of their favorite subject.
Examples of his many architectural sculptures include his baptismal font for St. Benedict's Catholic Church in nearby Holmdel, a holocaust memorial commissioned in Springfield, his life-sized nudes in metal and stained glass for the Monmouth Opera Society, and the September 11 memorial at the Municipal Building in Colts Neck.
As he gathered parts for the automobiles he constructed when he was young, Jim Gary said he realized that these parts resembled anatomical structures of insects, large birds, reptiles, and especially the bones of dinosaurs. Early in his career, he began to construct sculptures of those animals by assembling the automobile parts into almost life-sized models. He used as many as eight to ten vehicles to create his large dinosaur sculptures [2] and the unaltered parts are identifiable. Common tools became pivotal structures in some of his sculptures. Volkswagens...(and so on)
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