Jay's View - an artist looks at Life: August 2019

Please come to our Sculpture Garden Party on Saturday August 24 from 5 to 7pm at 18 Wequobsque Road, Chilmark. It looks like we are going to have perfect weather once again!

As part of turning 75 this summer I decided it would be fun to have a Sculpture Garden Party, Ever since I met Marianne and my twin step daughters I have been making sculpture, most of them about the joy and magic of living as a family here on the Vineyard. Over the last 45 years they have slowly been been filling up our family compound in Chilmark.

We have had two Sculpture Garden Parties and are doing it again. Everybody who came had a smile. It has been fun sharing a beautiful summer afternoon among my sculptures with people who know my work but I had never met before as well as with old friends.

There are old pieces:

Tree Fountain made in 1976

There are new pieces:

There are little pieces:

So come on over and feel free to bring family and friends.

Jay Lagemann
18 Wequobsque Road, Chilmark, MA 02535
508 560 0151

Share in the Joy, come to Jay Lagemann's Sculpture Garden Party on Saturday August 10th from 5 to 7 PM at 18 Wequobsque Road in Chilmark.
Sculptures that capture the joy of family life and living on the Vineyard dot the landscape of Jay Lagemann's family compound in Chilmark. There are couples Dancing,

Jitterbug Dancers 2019

Tango Dancers 2017

There is a fish on the line,

Yellow Fisherman 2018

A couple of Dogs celebrating,

Hi-Five Dogs

Or a dog quietly reading,

Reading Dog

On the deck you will find flowers and small sculptures,

The humming bird loves the blue flowers

Come and celebrate the magic of the Vineyard and Vineyard life style that has inspired Jay to make sculpture for the last 44 years. You are likely to run into old friends and meet new ones. 18 Wequobsque Road, Chilmark. Saturday, August 10, from 5 to 7 PM.

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 I sailed across the North and South Atlantic and wrote an unpublished book before working my way on to the special effects crew for the movie JAWS 2.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

You are invited to a Sculpture Garden Party August 24, 5 to 7 pm

Sculpture Garden Party Saturday, August 10 from 5 to 7 pm

JV 50 Christmas Special 2002 ©

Building the Swordfish Harpooner - DVD