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2022, zebra wood, 21″ x 19″ x 19″

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2022, white oak, mahogany, 36″ x 9″ x 10″

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2022, bubinga, mahogany, 27″ x 8″ x 7″

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2022, bubinga, mahogany, 27″ x 8″ x 7″

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2022, paduak, 28″ x 8″ x 8″

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This quiet loneliness swept up by the tide dances on the ocean under a moonlit sky.

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Articulations of my apology to loneliness in a series of lost wax sculptures.

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Seeing the lightness of loneliness in darkness. She is free without limbs, six white beads balanced on her forehead. Two birds sit comfortably on the skirt of ocean tides. She sees the light within her own darkness reflecting into the sky.

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I was asked to make a sculpture installation for children in an outdoor story telling area in Flushing Meadows Park. My inspiration was Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale, ” The Ugly Duckling”.

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This sculpture honors Father Popieluszko and the spirit of the Polish people. Father Popieluszko was a Roman Catholic priest who lived in Poland and was an ardent supporter of the Polish Solidarity Movement during the Soviet occupation of Poland. He was murdered in 1984 found beaten with his hands bound after ignoring threats to stop his popular anti Soviet sermons from his North Warsaw Church. 

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I sculpted this bronze fountain and standing thumb piano for Brower Park and playground in Brooklyn.

Brower Park sculpture by Tom Cleveland

I was asked to create sculptures for Playground for All Children in Staten Island. I imagined animals playing with objects found in nature for the children to discover. Those sculptures have disappeared but I have included photographs of eleven of the twenty four original waxes. I was awarded a New York City Art Commission Award for Public Art in 1997 for the project.

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On this bronze baseball bat twenty-eight names of the area’s old time baseball league were inscribed in remembrance of the long standing love of the game in this Bushwick community.

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Honoring New York City Policeman Cecil Frank Sledge’s calling as a police officer, I sculpted howling wolves, noses pointing towards the sky and the flag beyond, at the edge of a field of stars.

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Man - sculpture by Tom Cleveland
Bird Heart Sculpture by Tom Cleveland
Flight - sculpture by Tom Cleveland
Girl -sculpture by Tom Cleveland

2001, bronze, 10″ x 9″ x 6″

Football - sculpture by Tom Cleveland

2001, bronze and stone, 13″ x 6″ x 4″

Boy - sculpture by Tom Cleveland

1996, bronze, stone, 12″ x 9″ x 6″

Pop - sculpture by Tom Cleveland
Frog sculpture by Tom Cleveland
Giraffe Cello - sculpture by Tom Cleveland

 

Piano Player - sculpture by Tom Cleveland
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