Now in its 8th installment, the SculpTour is bigger than ever! It features 24 new sculptures placed throughout downtown Suwanee, making it the largest exhibit to date! This immersive walkable art encounter invites visitors to explore, appreciate, and even purchase select pieces.
Esther 2022
Olu Amoda | Smyrna, GA
Esther tells a quilt-like love story of migrants and natives, as well as occupiers and occupied. While it may appear perfect externally, it requires skill to conceal anguish with a smile. Esther is crafted from repurposed automatic clutch discs and mild steel, welded to convey a stance of pride and defiance. To learn more about Olu Amoda, visit wotaside.studios.
Firelanye
Olu Amoda | Smyrna, GA
Pronounced “fire-lane,” this piece – “To Each One Its Own Bag” is part of the ongoing “Free-Form” series. The artist’s work explores sculptures created from discarded forged steel forms found in blacksmith shops, as well as gifts from friends. This series delves into a dialogue with steel and its materiality, repurposing objects to create familiar subjects inspired by social media and life experiences. To learn more about Olu Amoda, visit wotaside.studios.
Miles
Olu Amoda | Smyrna, GA
The sculpture Miles, created from repurposed automatic transmission discs, draws a parallel between the transportation of groceries across the Mexico-US-Canada borders and the carefully welded discs. The configuration of welded clutch discs speaks to the connectivity between rural and urban areas, as well as between farmers and consumers. To learn more about Olu Amoda, visit wotaside.studios.
Prism Arc Yellow Quadrants
Carl Billingsley | Greensboro, NC
Prism Arc Yellow Quadrants organizes primary colors so that ‘reflected light’ from one surface changes the hue of an adjacent surface. This dynamic occurs over time as the sun moves through the sky and affects each aspect of the sculpture in turn. The viewer might see a surface as red and then see it again at a different time and it appears to be orange. To learn more about Carl Billingsley, visit billingsleyatelier.com.
Camel
Jonathan Bowling | Greenville, NC
The “Camel” is made from repurposed steel. Jonathan always loved the movie “Laurence of Arabia” and has even named his best rooster after it. Bowling’s pieces have often been favorites her here in Suwanee. Often depicting animals – both real and fantastical – the materials used are often from the turn of the last century, which the artist feels is appropriate for depicting animals so intertwined with our agrarian past. To learn more about Jonathan Bowling, visit jonathanbowling.com.
Dragon
Jonathan Bowling | Greenville, NC
The “Dragon” is made from repurposed steel. It spent a year on display at the Piedmont Triad airport in NC, and at the Brody School of Medicine. Bowling’s pieces have often been favorites her here in Suwanee. Often depicting animals – both real and fantastical – the materials used are often from the turn of the last century, which the artist feels is appropriate for depicting animals so intertwined with our agrarian past. To learn more about Jonathan Bowling, visit jonathanbowling.com.
Fulcrum I
Bill Brown | Linville Falls, NC
Fulcrum I is part of the Bridges to Communication series, a body of work that attempts to address the artist’s strong concerns regarding the polarization and divisiveness, which seems to permeate our society. This piece, which has a fulcrum point, in reality as well as in concept, can truly be moved by one person alone, symbolizing his conception of how one person may act as a fulcrum point and bring about meaningful dialogue. To learn more about Bill Brown, visit studiosculpture.com.
Mediator
Bill Brown | Linville Falls, NC
Mediator is a work that represents the mediation between two entities that are trying to establish a greater common bond and further understanding between one another. The front axel pivots for increased flexibility, expressing the inherent give and take required in coming to a mutual understanding. To learn more about Bill Brown, visit studiosculpture.com.
Walking Watcher – Fish Tender
Jim Collins| Signal Mtn, TN
The Watcher series began with two seated figures in 1978, and has progressed to over one hundred individual pieces in collections from Kilkenny, Ireland to Aspen, CO. After years of sitting, the concept for a new series–WALKING WATCHER – was born. One of Jim’s sitting figures, Audubon Watcher, is at Suwanee’s Sims Lake Park. To learn more about Jim Collins, visit collins3d.com.
Live Life Loud
Jason Dozer | Sugar Hill, GA
This sculpture, titled “Live Life Loud” is a 4X scaled version of a Fender Stratocaster guitar. Made of steel and stainless steel it is approximately 14’ tall x 4’ wide. To learn more about Jason Dozer visit metaldozer.com.
Tractor
Todd Frahm | Asheville, NC
This piece, a water buffalo, was originally made upon returning from a trip to Vietnam in 2001, as a response to learning that history has a way of distorting the truth to suit a specific audience. That Vietnam was such a peaceful place, inhabited by humanity’s kindest, was a stark contrast to what the artist had learned in books and documentaries. Adding insult to injury, imperial plunder had left this Eden with only beasts to turn the soil. A little over a year ago (2024), the artist reclad the piece in steel to breathe new life into the object. To learn more about Todd Frahm visit stonecloudstudio.com.
Great Blue Heron
Jennifer Freeman | Duluth, GA
This mosaic sculpture is created with stained glass over a substrate of rebar and fiberglass. The bird is just about to take flight, displaying the beauty of its plumage. To learn more about Jennifer Freeman visit mosaicodyssey.com.
Novel Idea
Craig Gray | Key West, FL
Novel Idea is a bench created from Georgia granite carved into the shapes of books. It is a unique way to bridge the gap between knowledge, discovery, and imagination -all of which can be gained through reading. The book titles for this particular piece were selected from suggestions of the Gwinnett County Library’s Suwanee Branch patrons. To learn more about Craig Grey visit crgray.com.
Legared
Jack Howard-Potter | New York, NY
Jack is a NYC based sculptor who has appeared in five SculpTour exhibits. This piece, pronounced “leg-a-red,” is made of ½” steel rods, individually bent cold by hand and welded one at a time. Legared is a body part collage that challenges the viewers normal perception of the human figure. The title refers to whatever the viewer’s head conjures as to its meaning. To learn more about Jack Howard-Potter visit steelstatue.com.
Le Tour Polka Dot
Jack Howard-Potter | New York, NY
Jack makes his figurative steel sculptures in his Long Island City studio. Le Tour was inspired by the climbers of the Tour de France and their amazing feats of dancing on the pedals while climbing the most punishing roads in the world on a bike. To learn more about Jack Howard-Potter visit steelstatue.com.
Hovering Dragonfly
Gregory Johnson | Cumming, GA
This piece was finished in early 2025 and makes its debut here at SculpTour. It blends realism with geometric abstraction. The artist hopes that the viewer is immersed into the world of the dragonfly by the monumental scale of the work. It is a tribute and a celebration of the natural world. To learn more about Gregory Johnson visit moderngj.com.
Cosmic Gas
Hanna Jubran | Grimesland, NC
Cosmic gas dynamics is concerned with the dynamics of the diffuse gas between the stars in galaxies (the Interstellar Medium) and with even more rarefied gas between galaxies in cluster of galaxies (the Intracluster Gas). These sculptures depict the Celestial Motion in nature. The half circular forms can be interpreted as space and the Milky Way. The horizontal and vertical lines represent comets, gases, clouds, and heavenly objects. It expresses the universe from the micro to the macro. To learn more about Hanna Jubran visit hannajubran.com.
Life Cycle
Hanna Jubran | Grimesland, NC
The large circle of stainless steel is divided into two parts, representing human birth and growth. The cycle is shown as an embryo to adult, living the circle of life and entering the eternity of light. The vertical line in the center stems from a sphere of life radiating with hope. The circle is full of energy and is reflecting the surroundings. It is artist Hanna Jubran’s desire that this sculpture gives the visitor a feeling of hope and relaxation. To learn more about Hanna Jubran visit hannajubran.com.
PROMISE
David Landis | Atlanta, GA
“PROMISE” takes a diminutive clover and blows it up to a large scale, and has a playful quality in the way the stem has been manipulated to form a ring that pierces through one of its leaves. There is a positive narrative in this work in that despite the pierced wound, the clover still stands and the stem circles around not only supporting the work but creating a more beautiful form of the clover. To learn more about David Landis visit landissculpture.com.
Give Me Shelter
Beau Lyday | Valdese, NC
Give me Shelter was inspired by a picture the artist found of a gothic ruin with the sunshine streaming though the quatrefoil and arched windows. He thought what a wonderful, scared place and he longed to be there. To learn more about Beau Lyday visit farmsteadstudio.com.
A Distant Calling
Harry McDaniel | Asheville, NC
A Distant Calling is an open-sided form, fabricated in aluminum, then drilled for the insertion of over 500 marbles. The form suggests a phone booth or a portal. To learn more about Harry McDaniel visit harrymcdaniel.com.
Flowers Blowing in the Wind
Sally Myers | Winchester, VA
Sally hopes everyone enjoys looking at these big bright flowers as much as she does. Notice the change in scale, the elegance of the folded flowers, and the illusion of motion. The whole sculpture is about feeling good. She invites you to look up and see these extra-large and extra-bright flowers and feel joy. To learn more about Sally Myers visit sallymyerssculpture.com.
Betelgeuse
Phil Proctor | Newnan, GA
Crafted from reclaimed and painted galvanized light poles, this cosmic-sized structure (18’x22’x26′) is named after the tenth brightest star in the night sky, part of the Orion constellation. The sculpture is meant to embrace the idea that all matter in the universe, including our very flesh, is continuously recycled; we are born from stars and our dust will eventually make it back there. Fun fact: it’s pronounced “bee-tuhl-joos.” To learn more about Phil Proctor visit philproctor.com.
Remix
Joni Younkins-Herzog | Athens, GA
“Remix” is about having fun with linear elements, together the lines create and define the form. It allows the imagination to fill in the instrument-like forms and draws you in and about the piece, hopefully with a song in your mind. To learn more about Joni Younkins-Herzog visit joniyounkinsherzog.com.
