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Nathan Skiles
Home
Portfolio
Am I Born to Die
Will the Circle Be Unbroken
Spectrum
Aim with your hand, Kill with your heart
The Clockmaker's Apprentice at the Hunterdon Art Museum Clinton, NJ
Cuckoo Clocks
Birdhouses
Sculpture
Contact
Links
Resume
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Sculpture
“Welcome to Tarturus, Welcome to Valhalla”; wooden stakes, tire, barbed wire, and bullets.
Wood and Foam Rubber
65" x 47" x 3"
2008
“Dead Reckoning with Man’s Best Friend, Variation #2”; bloodhound’s head with weather vane
Wood, paint and foam rubber
42" x 39" x 24"
2007
“Dead Reckoning with Man’s Best Friend, Variation #2”; detail
Wood, paint and foam rubber
42" x 39" x 24"
2007
”North x North-West”; Barometer with stand, pin-wheel, shoe strings, hawk and a handsaw.
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
64" x 46" x 32"
2008
“What’s it Going to Take to Slice Off a Piece of that Crack?”; wooden club, oxygen tank with mask, i.v. stand, livestrong bracelet, tourniquet, geoduck
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
52" x 52" x 58"
2010
“What’s it Going to Take to Slice Off a Piece of that Crack?”; detail
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
52" x 52" x 58"
2008
"Proteus"; elephant man’s arm, club, and cane.
Styrofoam, wood, hot glue, vinyl laminate, yarn, felt, cotton balls, foam rubber, and tape
24" x 40" x 50"
2006
"Poli-Yodel Blues"; club, leg brace, christmas tree star, and two blocks of wood.
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
44" x 22" x 8"
2006
"Poli-Yodel Blues"; detail
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
44" x 22" x 8"
2010
“Cracking Nomadic, Distillation for Fight and Flight”; tire, séance circle, pecan wood, distillery condenser, and can of spinach.
Wood, paper, hot glue, paint, pipe cleaners, velvet, and foam rubber
59" x 42" x 22"
2007
"Satellite Family Tree, Goodbye and Farewell from Space”; club, umbrella, washboard, nightstick, portholes, tin can telephone, sextants, tires shards.
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
66" x 54" x 50"
2008
"Satellite Family Tree, Goodbye and Farewell from Space”; detail
Wood, styrofoam, felt, and foam rubber
66" x 54" x 50"
2008
"I Don't Care to Belong to a Club that Accepts People Like Me as Members"; caveman club, wooden boards, nails, luchador masks, shoe strings, shadow.
Styrofoam, wood, felt, and foam rubber
108" x 60" x 42"
2008
"I Don't Care to Belong to a Club that Accepts People Like Me as Members"; detail
Styrofoam, wood, felt, and foam rubber
108" x 60" x 42"
2008
"I Fucked Mother Earth"; caveman club, red light, blue adonis butterfly collection, mistle-toe.
Styrofoam, wood, cotton balls, and foam rubber
36" x 18" x 14"
2010
"I Fucked Mother Earth"; detail
Styrofoam, wood, cotton balls, and foam rubber
38" x 18" x 14"
2010
"How to Squeeze Blood from a Stone"; petrified club, blind fold, cutting apparatuses, cigarette, purple heart.
Styrofoam, wood, and foam rubber
32" x 20" x 12"
2010
"How to Squeeze Blood from a Stone"; detail
Styrofoam, wood, and foam rubber
32" x 20" x 12"
2010
“Godsdamn Flagg”; shredded retread and rattlesnake.
Wood, felt, wire, and foam rubber
110" x 84" x 4"
2008