In case you missed it, Dan left a comment on my original post Stealth Public Sculpture In Milwaukee County’s Lake Park! (I am guessing Dan Randa from what I gather from the website) His comment: ” The artist is a local Milwaukee resident who goes by the name of “McMo”. You can find everything you need to know at his website:
http://www.mcmo.is”
Well yes, the website identifies the sculptor as McMo but that is an alias and we aren’t really much closer to who McMo is. But here is some of the information from the landing page on his site:
Who Is McMo? McMo is an Earthworks Artist who creates and displays Earthworks Art on Lincoln Memorial Drive in Milwaukee Wisconsin. Displayed just down the road from the Milwaukee Art Museum are his Milwaukee Lakefront Art Installations built from materials found off the Shores of Lake Michigan. They have been described by his colleagues as “Brutal Elegance“, and have garnered local critical acclaim from the Milwaukee artist community.
And from his ABOUT page, a little more detail:
THE MCMO VISION McMo has been hand crafting beautiful installations, creating stunning designs, and making clients happy for years. With his remarkable eye for Earthworks and Land Art, combined with an everlasting thirst for pop-up installations, McMo has propelled himself onto a new artistic plateau as a Milwaukeean. McMo describes his art as “BRUTAL ELEGANCE“, due to the rigorous and tiresome process of moving massive pieces of newly discovered stone, metal, and mortar to his art space, where he bends, modify’s, constructs, designs, and builds his BRUTALLY ELEGANT art installations.
Please visit his site because he has a gallery of his work going back some years and they are quite beautiful as are the public sculptures that he has installed along Lincoln Memorial Drive over the years. The photos that I am using to illustrate this article were taken from his site. I wanted to show different pieces than those I photographed in situ. And he briefly describes his process for assembling raw materials, assembling his pieces, and then installing and distributing them. He also has pieces that are available for sale.
One fun bit of whimsy is the physical address shown on the ABOUT page: 2400 N Lincoln Memorial Dr Milwaukee, WI 53211. That just happens to be the art deco bath house building at Bradford Beach!!
So there you have it, part of the mystery is solved. And I for one will keep an eye out for other pieces as they may appear!! Thank you for your art, McMo!
