Jay's View - an artist looks at Life

Sculptor and video artist Jay Lagemann lives on Martha's Vineyard. He created the monumental sculpture "Swordfish Harpooner" located in Menemsha. Being a grandfather many of his sculptures are based on family themes. He shows at the Ganary Gallery, in West Tisbury, the Featherstone Arts Center and the Field Gallery. Jay's View is Shown on MVTV at 8pm on Wednesdays.

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I have always liked making things. I fell in love with art when I spent my 18th summer travelling around Europe. At Princeton I took all the art courses available and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics in 1966. Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, I returned to travelling after getting my Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2. There I learned the skills to make just about anything. That came in handy because one day, sitting in the Sculpture Park at the Hirshorn Museum, I had a vision of creating the Wild Island Sculpture Park on my land in Chilmark. In 1994 I created the monumental sculpture, the Swordfish Harpooner, in Menemsha for the Chilmark Tricentennial. I work with a variety of materials because I view almost everything as sculpture from the placement of driftwood on the beach to the building of my own house and studios. I have a unique way of seeing things and in 1997 I started making my own public access TV show: Jay's View.
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      • Family is the way I like it, now we can make a mol...
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      • Kneeling Girl and the Dog.
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      • My lunchtime friend
      • Red hot bronze The oured this morning The piece...
      • Had to reinforce the connections
      • Poured "The Family" this morning. All the pieces ...
      • Hearts are pleasing forms.
      • Idea for a base for the small Swordfish Harpooner.
      • Aweek's work coming together.
      • The Deer Park is put together with the upside down...
      • Holding the Breaching Whale in place while the pla...
      • Making a plaster base to hold up the Breaching Whale.
      • The mold makes the Man.
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      • Swinging Jenny cut up for mold making.
      • Working on Hearts
      • Long hot day at the foundry
      • Fixing Jenny's "Swinging Jenny" that fell of the p...
      • Red Shirts and Army guns. Like a moth to flame I'...
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      • Temparary supports, we all need them at times.
      • Deer Park is taking shape. It is interesting worki...
      • Spent the afternoon playing with plaster. Ever si...
      • Running is a lot of what makes us human.
      • Sketches turned into bronze. I'm having fun.
      • Funny little sketch is mounted on a base and almos...
      • At the dentist in Bangkok they first take your blo...
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      • In Vientiane, Laos after an overnight train ride.
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Who is this Guy?

About Me

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Jay
I have always liked making things. I fell in love with art when I spent my 18th summer travelling around Europe. At Princeton I took all the art courses available and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in mathematics in 1966. Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, I returned to travelling after getting my Ph.D. in Mathematical Logic from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2. There I learned the skills to make just about anything. That came in handy because one day, sitting in the Sculpture Park at the Hirshorn Museum, I had a vision of creating the Wild Island Sculpture Park on my land in Chilmark. In 1994 I created the monumental sculpture, the Swordfish Harpooner, in Menemsha for the Chilmark Tricentennial. I work with a variety of materials because I view almost everything as sculpture from the placement of driftwood on the beach to the building of my own house and studios. I have a unique way of seeing things and in 1997 I started making my own public access TV show: Jay's View.

Building the Swordfish Harpooner - DVD

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Family - Presidential Welcome 2009

A Sculpture by Jay Lagemann made to celebrate the Obamas coming to Jay's home town on the Island of Martha's Vineyard for their Summer Vacation.
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