Jay's View - an artist looks at Life: September 2013

You wouldn't know it, but there is a pool table under all those sculptures. Dan and Vicki's house is full of fun sculpture and paintings. Anyone for a martini?

You better watch out, there is a lawyer over there with his final offer. But what's behind his back?

After a delicious buffet a dance was performed in the back yard by Swinging Jenny. It was the fun interaction between the dancers and the Swinging Jenny at a previous Benefit that gave Dan and Vicki the idea of my coming down with more sculptures of dancing figures.

The Three Amigos

Jay, Dan Lewis, Bob Levy

We've been friends for over 60 years!

Dan Lewis, Lucy Bowen McCauley, and Jay Lagemann

The Spiral Dancer looked good in the dining room. The 7 Baby Mobius Ring is in the reflection.

The benefit was a lot of fun and a great success. Fifteen pieces of sculpture were sold which raised quite a bit of money for the dance group. In all enough was raised to insure the Bowen McCauley Dance Group will be headed off to China.

If you want to see the sculptures that we took down to Washington, DC check out this link:
http://www.jaylagemann.com/bowen-mccauley-dance-benefit.html

Who is this Guy?

About Me

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 I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2.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.

Jay's View - an artist looks at Life

My Sculptures at the Bowen McCauley Dance Group Benefit

On the Road. And Ferry

Family Time at the Middlebury Farmers Market

Three generations of great apple pie makers

JV 50 Christmas Special 2002 ©

Building the Swordfish Harpooner - DVD