Early Work: Plastics
Ferris Newton
‘IMPRISMED’
Ferris Newton
1972 About 50 X 30
A Face Divided into two pieces
‘PIGGIE POOH’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±75 cm
For me, a loveable character…. He’s trying so awfully hard to do tricks that might please, and his ‘bite’ is about as fearsome as that of a plastic toy.
With him, I tested the extremes of what I could ‘free-mold’ with Toughened Polystyrene.
And yes… my own ‘inner beasts’ did get a bit out of hand, but it was ever-so-much FUN.
Collection of Rowland Floyd
‘PINK TANK’
Ferris Newton
1968 About 20 X 43 cm
‘A MEMBER’
Ferris Newton
1968 ±60 X 40
BLOOMIN SATYR
Ferris Newton
‘RUBBER GOTHICK’
Ferris Newton
1970 17 X 12.8 X 1.2 cm
Gothic door
Please do look closely… there’s a worn threshold between the carved columns, inviting you to enter into an ancient place, but for me, not a ‘Churchy’ one.
‘PORTCULLIS’
Ferris Newton
1970 Vinyl & Rubber slotted onto rigid Polystyrene
‘OPENLY FETISH’
Ferris Newton
1970 73.5 cm Vinyl and PVC
‘BOUNDARIES’
Ferris Newton
1971 About 50 X 55 cm
Hedge in front of Fence
‘BONDAGE’
Ferris Newton
1969 ± 90 cm
'CORPORATE MAN'
Ferris Newton
'BOXED'
Ferris Newton
‘SHEPHERD’S STAFF’
Ferris Newton
1978 About 128 cm
Wow! That hurt.
‘VOCATION I’
Ferris Newton
1965 76 cm
‘VOCATION II’
Ferris Newton
NY ±1965 ± 81 cm
Some sort of Fraternal penance… the nails are very real
‘DEEP BLUE’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 64 cm
‘PLASTIC BEGINNINGS’
Ferris Newton
In New York, Before 1965
About 61 cm
‘PHOENIX’
Ferris Newton
NY 1965 ±140 cm
From studio plastic leftovers and the ‘Trouvé Plastique’ of a Christmas past, this ‘strangeness bird’ was reborn. With all of its limiting factors, it still stands tall and defiant (even if the fragile Piece may no longer exist).
‘MORNING GLORY’
Ferris Newton
In New York Before 1965
About 76 cm
‘UP THE BLUES’
Ferris Newton
1978 ? About 70 cm
‘UGLY DUCKLING’
Ferris Newton
1972 About 60 cm