Presented by The Arts and Architecture Conservancy at Saint Peter’s.
Body Part Bouquets by Jack Howard-Potter is a larger than life exhibition featuring a mix of new and previous works from Howard-Potter. On view now through January 2026, please join the artist for an opening reception on Monday, October 6 at 6:00 P.M.
Howard-Potter grew up in New York City where he was inspired by the public sculpture of Alexander Calder and George Ricky. He is also influenced by various other performing and visual art forms, especially dance. With a background as a blacksmith creating furniture, he has pushed his skills in order to convey a heightened sense of fluidity in solid steel.
For this exhibition, Howard-Potter has developed a fresh body of work: what he calls sculptural “bouquets.” These bouquets are made of figurative elements that stand apart from their bodies. Their arrangement blurs the line between abstraction and representation, offering bursts of color and form that feel at once familiar and surprising. As viewers move around the pieces, shapes shift and overlap, creating unexpected layers and patterns—sometimes recalling a body in motion, other times suggesting abstract expressionist canvases.
About Jack Howard-Potter
Jack Howard-Potter, born and raised in New York City, graduated from Union College with a thesis on “Figurative Steel Sculpture.” After college, Howard-Potter worked for a blacksmith making furniture, and was a teacher’s assistant at the Art Students League of New York City.
He has permanent and long-term displays in sculpture parks, municipalities, and galleries across the United States.
In 2021, Howard-Potter made the 1958 Championship Game sculpture for the NFL Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Standing 30 feet tall, the monumental figure of the diving football player, Raymond Berry, is gravity-defying. The six thousand pounds of steel, covered in a silver skin, took 8 months to complete.
He resides in New York City with his family. He is a board member of The Art Students League and Scripps Howard Foundation, attends ballet and dance to inform his work, and most recently completed a commission for the city of Palm Springs, California. He has had his studio in Long Island City, Queens, since 2006.