Creator Bio
Joel Otterson
b. 1959
Los Angeles–born sculptor and installation artist Joel Otterson is known for sculptures combining unusual elements and exploring gender, sexuality, and consumerism. His work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (1987).
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Hanukkah Lamp. Unorthodox Menorah II
Otterson was first inspired to explore the multiple symbolic meanings of the menorah after a trip to Israel in the early 1990s. He made the branches of his reimagined Hanukkah menorah out of copper…