Jeff Sugar

Thank you for entering my website. Work shown here features metal mobiles I have been crafting for the last six years. In my day job I am a Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatrist. In both art and science, we touch the surface and then go deeper. The psychiatrist seeks understanding that will lead to growth. The artist seeks an experience that triggers wonder.

CLOSEUP MAGIC & CONTROLLED SERENDIPITY
What are you looking at? Now, pause to examine whatever platform holds these words or any other nearby object. Now look a full 180° behind. Now look at the sides. Notice how the same object might appear simple and clean from one point of view, but complicated and messy from another. Seen all together, the changes from these shifting perspectives are not surprising. Magicians performing close-up card tricks can’t escape the laws of physics. Yet when the missing card is pulled from the magician’s empty hand, we find the illusion astonishing. Sometimes the greatest surprise is the one we do see coming.

Read my full Artist’s Statement here.

Collection

I make metal mobiles to express what I call, “Controlled Serendipity.” Each piece of the mobile spins in harmony with the others, and the whole never moves in exactly the same way twice. Though we think we know what to expect, the mobile never ceases to surprise.

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You Talking to Me?

You Talking To Me?

Secret Doctrine

Getting Ahead

Sprite

Sprite

Shoot

Punk Rocker

Punk Rocker

Indras Triangles

Indras Triangles

Simone Leaping

Simone Leaping and Aluminum

A Gathering of Friends

A Gathering of Friends

On Point

Who's Facing

Who's Facing

The Swan

The Swan

Flat Androids Jumping

Flat Androids Jumping

All Wrapped Up

All Wrapped Up

Angel Landing

Angel Landing

Flat Android Steps Up

Jeff Sugar Art - Flat Android Steps Up

Menagerie

Menagerie

Platonic Friends

Jeff Sugar Art - Platonic Friends Mobile

Throw Dem Arms

Jeff Sugar Art - Throw Dem Arms

Evolving Small Stabile

Jeff Sugar Art - Evolving Small Stabile

Around They Go

Jeff Sugar Art - Around They Go

Square Path to Zero

Jeff Sugar Art - Square Path to Zero

One With Everything

Jeff Sugar Art - One With Everything

Angel Rising

Jeff Sugar Art - Angel Rising

Rockstar

Jeff Sugar Art - Rockstar

Most Got Bent

Jeff Sugar Art - Most Got Bent

Spiral Inside

Jeff Sugar Art - Spiral Inside