The Sculptures

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The Sculptures
A Frayed Nun The Less Illustrates Miami sculptor
Michael J. Russo's gift for anthropomorphizing
everyday objects as well as his love of the
almost-egregious pun.
A Frayed Nun The Less
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Plead
Miami artist Michael J. Russo works in several
disciplines including architecture, sculpture,
collage, and landscape design and refuses to be
"pinned" into any one category. "Plead" is one of
his arresting pieces of two-dimensional art.
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Protection
Insisting "Nothing is disposable" Russo
challenges his audience to absorb the lesson in
his biomorphic sculpture.
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Reclaiming and redeeming everyday objects is the
stuff of Russo's sculptures. Yogi Levitation
features the manipulation of a pair of ice
scrapers.
Yogi Levitation
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Dust to Dust
Russo's reaffirmation that all objects are
worthy of being transformed in a work of art - be
it a shoe or even a dustpan. Russo's ongoing
drive is to infuse objects with alife of their
own.
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Unhindered by mainstream art, Russo's biomorphic
sculptures including "Soled Out" scream silently
and beg for our attention to his process.
Soled Out
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God Nose is another manifestation of Michael J.
Russo's found-object art Through Russo's powers
of biomorphic transformation a singed metal can
stares back at us as an inquisitive face. As
Russo remarked in a New York Times interview. "My
inclination is to take something simple and make
it exciting,"
God Nose