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Prescott Gallery & Sculpture Garden

Prescott Gallery & Sculpture Garden is a favorite in the cutting edge Siler Arts District, also home to countless creative enterprises such as Meow Wolf, WiseFool, Make Santa Fe, a number of theatre groups, micro-breweries, and many working artist’s studios.

Prescott’s 24,000 sq ft studio includes a newly remodeled 4000 sq ft gallery space and a one and a half acre sculpture garden, located on the corner of Agua Fria and Siler Park Lane. Visitors from around the globe find their way to the colorful and botanical sculpture garden, and are excited and amazed when they are encouraged to touch the life-sized sculpture, causing the animal heads to nod gently.

As graphically bold and colorful as his pieces are, they always look perfectly at ease in a natural setting. Welded contoured lines enhance the natural curves of their bodies, while giving each form a marvelously graphic impact, and they make a huge statement on the landscape they live upon. Ingeniously designed with sculptural methods that have been perfected over time, each animal is an individual. Through variations on size, body contours, colors and patina, no two are alike.

Fredrick Prescott’s childhood experiences invariably influenced the kinetic animals and landscapes that have become his artistic trademark. Born in Palo Alto in 1949, the oldest son of the chief inventor and owner of the Universal Coin Meter Company, Prescott began working with metal at the age of six. In the playground of band saws, punch presses and metal grinders, he spent countless hours honing the skills he uses to transform metal into art by cutting, bending, and welding. By age twelve, Prescott was enrolled in a watercolor painting class where he immediately developed a passion for color. Both sculpting and painting his artwork, he began his career fascination for bold and colorful steel sculpture.

Since 1974, Prescott has exhibited his work all over the world and created special pieces on commission for both private and corporate collectors, including Walt Disney Co., Porsche, the Chicago Bulls, Sylvester Stallone, and former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. His sculpture is in the permanent collections of museums across the country as well as internationally, and range in size from tabletop kinetic sculpture to monumental pieces that fill public parks and the atriums of children’s hospitals.

Open Monday – Friday 10am – 4pm 1127 Siler Park Lane, Santa Fe, NM no entry fee 505-424-8449 prescottstudio@gmail.com www.prescottstudio.com

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