Maryland - Sculptures

(8) Bronze Bird Sculptures (nails on back for installation)

(21) Blue & Bronze Bird Sculptures (nails on back for installation)

(13) Blue Bird Sculptures (nails on back for installation)

Time and my changing perspective of it are compelling to me. This interest and pursuit for understanding exposes a self-inquiry and thus brings to my work a collaboration of poetics,...

The work is handmade, one of a kind, not seen in many homes, style or composition. They are a conversation piece, the Artist is from the Title, giving away the societal norm of door...

From a Murmur to a Storm, Original Contemporary Wooden and Wire Sculpture 24" x 13" x 13" (HxWxD) Wood, Wire, Painted Wooden Beads This conical wooden sculpture by artist Todd McCollister...

Honey, You Have to Wait 15 x 8 x 3 Mixed media Original sculpture signed by the artist Unframed Artist's Commentary: "Sometimes diving for the goal too soon is a mistake." Like life, Todd McCollister...

Listening at the Cliffside, Original Contemporary Wooden Mixed Media Sculpture 20" x 65" x 42" (HxWxD) Wood, Stone, String, Brass Bell, Glass Bottle, Clear Finish In this highly conceptual work, artist Todd McCollister has combined a myriad of elements to depict a narrative scene that makes the viewer pause. Inspired by historical elements, the work explores space, structure, and sound. A small boat-shaped after shave bottle serves as a floating element beneath a brass bell. A wall of undulating wood creates the cliffside, while more delicate beams of wood jut behind the piece, somehow evoking both fragility and the integrity of industrial engineering at work. Artist Commentary: This piece started as a reference to the "acoustic mirror" listening stations on the southeast coast of England. These huge concrete parabolic reflectors focus sound to a small point. During the second world war, the British posted soldiers at the focus of each one, where they would listen for German boats...

The Gem Tree, Original Contemporary Mixed Media Sculpture 26" x 31" x 19" (HxWxD) Wood, Wire, Crystal Beads Artist Todd McCollister has created a 3D surreali...

Original Contemporary Sculpture Wood, plastic whale, plastic squid, dyes, pigmented finish, clear finish Artist's Commentary: "The sperm whales of the world consume more squid each year by mass than the mass of the human population of the planet. It's a lot of squid. They're almost constantly hunting squid. What you may not have known is that there is some evidence giant squid...

I Hope He Knows the Way Home, Original Contemporary Narrative Wooden Sculpture 14" x 24" x 50" (HxWxD) Wood, String, Plastic, Clear Finish This wooden sculpture by artist Todd McCollister features a sleek and modern design with smooth, undulating platforms that meet at dynamic angles that complement the organic figure of the elephant that is descending the staircase. Artist Commentary: Sometimes, after very bad things, there is magic. I woke up with one surviving image from a rich and elaborate dream. A horse, saddled but riderless, badly burned, was descending stairs, almost home. Around his neck was a beautiful string of fish...