New York sculptor Jack Cox molds hyper-realistic clay heads around city anxiety for Benjamin Berman. Creating fiercely human, relatable art that comes from a place of rawness, New York sculptor Jack Cox recasts the city’s characters in clay, embracing life for what it is – not what we wish it to be.
Celebrating the human condition in all its messiness and contradictions, his hyper-realistic clay heads seek to capture the behaviors and characteristics observed around him, presented through an unfiltered lens in all their imperfections.
Connecting with Cox between his Brooklyn studio and the streets of Manhattan, director Benjamin Berman delves into the inner voices embodied through his craft for short film Heads: A Documentary with Talking Heads. Animating Cox’s sculptures to communicate the frustrations and anxieties of the New York experience, the heads become a mouthpiece for the collective misanthropy shared by its residents – and a playful outlet for his own thoughts and insecurities.
