Disabled persectives.
Celebrating Disability everywhere in everything.
Early Work: Plastics
Ferris Newton
‘ATTACHMENT’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 46 cm
Plastic flowers growing from a steel clamp.
I’ve always believed that in our time, a piece of sculpture should be made to stand on its own, without a pedestal (unless the pedestal is part of the Work).
‘TRUMPET FLOWER’
Ferris Newton
1969 ± 90 cm
‘YELLOW ROLLER’
Ferris Newton
1968 45 X 25 cm
‘A BLOOMIN FENCE’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 70 cm
‘ROCK-A-BYE’
Ferris Newton
1968 35 X 40 cm
‘PINK ROLLER’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±50 X 28 X 18
‘ROCKER’
Ferris Newton
1968 35 cm
‘MOVING TARGET’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±40 X 23 X 32
If toys are an important way that we learn, then I believe that this little guy has a lot to teach.
Another innocent… caught in the crossfire of emotional wars or is it ideological conflicts?
I hope that his beauty is seductive enough to “promote conjecture” and that he’s strong enough to offer some choices about these values.
‘REGIMENTAL FLOWER’
Ferris Newton
‘HEDGE’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 102 cm
Black Plastic Pair
‘WINDFLOWER’
Ferris Newton
1969 ± 50 cm
With the innocently beautiful gesture of a Cyclamen it greets the world, buffeted but still defiantly struggling to stand.
‘TRAVELIN FLOWER’
Ferris Newton
1968 38 cm
‘THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 90 cm and 70 cm
‘MACRO GERMINATION’
Ferris Newton
In New York Before 1965
About 120 cm
Mostly recycled plastic products, re-shaped
‘SPACE FLOWER’
Ferris Newton
1968 About 61cm
Grounded
Ferris Newton
‘YELLOW FLAG’
Ferris Newton
1968 69 cm
‘GOLDEN SEEDLING’
Ferris Newton
In New York Before 1965
About 38 cm
‘MODULES’
Ferris Newton
1978? About 70 cm
Three almost identicals. Heat inflated, rigid plastic
‘FOR BLACK FEATHERS AND MAGIC’
Ferris Newton
1971 30 cm
Made for Chris Bruce
‘DISABLED’
Ferris Newton
1969 127 cm
‘SOCIAL CLIMBER’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 70 cm
ARMOUR
Ferris Newton
1968 690x1024
‘Troubled Down Below’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 60 X 58
‘SUPPORT’
Ferris Newton
1970 89 cm
Black ‘Rubber’ bolted to PVC
‘IMPRISMED’
Ferris Newton
1972 About 50 X 30
A Face Divided into two pieces
‘PIGGIE POOH’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±75 cm
For me, a loveable character…. He’s trying so awfully hard to do tricks that might please, and his ‘bite’ is about as fearsome as that of a plastic toy.
With him, I tested the extremes of what I could ‘free-mold’ with Toughened Polystyrene.
And yes… my own ‘inner beasts’ did get a bit out of hand, but it was ever-so-much FUN.
Collection of Rowland Floyd
‘PINK TANK’
Ferris Newton
1968 About 20 X 43 cm
‘A MEMBER’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±60 X 40
BLOOMIN SATYR
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‘RUBBER GOTHICK’
Ferris Newton
1970 17 X 12.8 X 1.2 cm
Gothic door
Please do look closely… there’s a worn threshold between the carved columns, inviting you to enter into an ancient place, but for me, not a ‘Churchy’ one.
‘OPENLY FETISH’
Ferris Newton
1970 73.5 cm Vinyl and PVC
‘BOUNDARIES’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 50 X 55 cm
Hedge in front of Fence
‘BONDAGE’
Ferris Newton
1969 ± 90 cm
'CORPORATE MAN'
Ferris Newton
'BOXED'
Ferris Newton
‘SHEPHERD’S STAFF’
Ferris Newton
1978 About 128 cm
Wow! That hurt.
‘VOCATION I’
Ferris Newton
1965 76 cm
‘VOCATION II’
Ferris Newton
NY ±1965 ± 81 cm
Some sort of Fraternal penance… the nails are very real
‘DEEP BLUE’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 64 cm
‘PLASTIC BEGINNINGS’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 61 cm
‘PHOENIX’
Ferris Newton
NY 1965 ±140 cm
From studio plastic leftovers and the ‘Trouvé Plastique’ of a Christmas past, this ‘strangeness bird’ was reborn. With all of its limiting factors, it still stands tall and defiant (even if the fragile Piece may no longer exist).
‘MORNING GLORY’
Ferris Newton
In New York Before 1965
About 76 cm
