Prices start at $350 and, if you have a special breed in mind, McLaughlin does commissions. Having one of these sculptures greet you when you come in your door at the end of a long day has its advantages: You don’t have to pick up after it, or pay vet bills. You just have to enjoy the little guy or gal.
McLaughlin’s work is technically exquisite and laugh-out-loud joyful. Using almost every imaginable material (wire, paper pulp, cement, glass, found objects) he creates a veritable petting zoo: sheep, pigs, goats, human-animal hybrids he dubs “Manimals,” kinetic sculpture (a.k.a. mobiles) and so on.
McLaughlin shows his work across the globe, and calls two cities home. One is in South-Central France. The other is in South-South Phoenix. His local gallery is Udinotti in Scottsdale, and his Phoenix studio is a paradise of repurposed art. And yes, he can be found teaching a couple of memorable workshops a year to fortunate sculpture students.
Our advice? Add up the cost of the junk that currently sits in your garage just waiting to be donated and apply that toward a new art piece. Let’s all reform by investing in locally made art we adore and by giving a little boost to the Phoenix art scene.
See Larry’s work at larrymclaughlin.com
