Otterness is perhaps best known to New Yorkers for his 2002 Life Underground installation, which is located in the 14th Street – Eighth Avenue New York City Subway station.

Journalist Gary Indiana criticized a young Otterness for an independent work done in 1977 called " Shot Dog Film " a looped video piece, in which, Otterness shot a stray dog as a form of war protest.

The two buildings are connected by underground corridor below the Eastman Reading Garden, which was designed by landscape architecture firm OLIN, and includes sculptures by Maya Lin and Tom Otterness.

After this piece, Otterness was commissioned to do others for the General Services Administration, including federal courthouses in Portland, Oregon ( Law of Nature, 1997 ); Sacramento, California ( Gold Rush, 1999 ); and Minneapolis, Minnesota ( Rock Man, 1999 ).

Otterness was hired by the Washington State Arts Commission to create the bronze figures and stone tables and benches for Downtown Connell.

I hope people can find it in their hearts to forgive me — Tom Otterness.

In 2005, " Tom Otterness on Broadway ", his largest exhibition to date, featured 25 different works installed between Columbus Circle and 168th Street in Washington Heights.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

Artists producing site-specific works include Michele Oka Doner, Sir Jacob Epstein, Henry Moore, David Smith, Isaac Witkin, Anthony Caro, Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Richard Haas, Alexander Calder, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Nevelson, Leonard Baskin, George Segal, Tom Otterness, Roy Lichtenstein, Olafur Eliasson, Sol LeWitt, Dennis Oppenheim, Max Neuhaus, Robert Smithson, Andy Goldsworthy, Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Dan Flavin, Archie Rand, Richard Serra, Olga Kisseleva, Michael Heizer, Patricia Johanson, James Turrell, Ana Mendieta, Athena Tacha, Alice Adams, Nancy Holt, Rowan Gillespie, Scott Burton, Robert Irwin, Marian Zazeela, Guillaume Bijl, Betty Beaumont and younger artists like Eberhard Bosslet, Mark Divo, Leonard van Munster, Luna Nera, Simparch, Sarah Sze, Stefano Cagol, and Seth Wulsin.

Other notables there at this time include Fab Five Freddy, Tom Otterness, Carlo McCormick, Steven Parrino, Joseph Nechvatal and George Condo.

Tom Otterness sculpture in Nelson A. Rockefeller Park, Battery Park City, New York City | New York.

Tom Otterness ( b. 1952 in Wichita, Kansas ) is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums in New York — most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street / 8th Avenue subway station — and other cities around the world.

Known primarily as a public artist, Otterness has exhibited in exhibitions in locations across the United States and internationally, including New York City, Indianapolis, Beverly Hills, the Hague, Munich, Paris, Valencia and Venice.

Otterness studied at the Art Students League of New York in 1970 and at the Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1973.

Otterness began his career as a public sculptor during this period with Colab.

In 1987, Otterness exhibited his work The Tables at the Museum of Modern Art " Projects " show.

The New York Times notes, " Mr. Otterness worked hard to find creative ways to place his sculpture, navigating around the rules of stations design.

In September 2010, six new Otterness Sculptures were installed along Columbia Avenue in Connell, Washington.

In 1908 he became a United States citizen and married Jennie Marie Berdahl, the daughter of Andrew James Berdahl and Karen Oline Otterness.

Two pieces called Alligator and Visionary are part of the Commons ' permanent public art collection by the well-known sculptor Tom Otterness.

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