Giant T-Rex by Tom Prevatt

This Amado based artist is unlike any artist I have met.  No resume, no long list of gallery shows, but he does have a long history of creating art. Don’t expect it to fit into your living room since many of his creations are as large as your house.  I consider him the GIANT MAKER.  Since 1993 he has been creating giant sculptures out of his La Reata Studio near Elephant Head in Amado.

Unlike most artists waiting for an exhibition at a gallery, Tom gets as much demand for his art as he is able to create and often has a waiting list. When you view the following pictures you will understand why. They are absolutely incredible!

Suchomimus sculpture by Tom Prevatt

He has created 45 LIFE SIZE dinosaurs for the George C. Eccles Dinosaur Park in Ogden, Utah; rockwork, waterfalls and savannahs for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science; and the Meercat Exhibit at the Pittsburgh Zoo. (more…)

THE UofA’s CENTER FOR CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY is offering a chance to see the work of photographer Robert Mapplethorpe again – and maybe for the first time.

 Mapplethorpe’s 1989-1990 exhibit “The Perfect Moment” – that reached the public months after his death at the age of 42 from complications arising from AIDS – created a major battle in the culture wars with its explicit homoerotic and sadomasochistic images.

Mapplethorpe self-portraits

 The uproar seared an image of Mapplethorpe into the public mind to the exclusion of nearly all his other work.

 And it is that other work – a vast body of strikingly dramatic portraits – that is represented in 104 Mapplethorpe photographs on display at the Center through October 4.

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