“When ancient tools, with their simplified, hand-wrought shapes, are placed alongside modern tools, with their streamlined industrialized designs, the imagination conjures up improbable hybrids. Ben Jackel’s gigantic redwood and graphite ‘Down to the Bone’ blade speaks eloquently of this rupture and fusion as it sits alongside Autry National Museum of the West Collections." 

O'Brian, John. "Tools." Exhibition Catalogue.  Art Center College of Design: 2010.

Ben Jackel, Down to the Bone, 2008-2009 (redwood and graphite)

See Jackel’s axe wielding process in the studio via the following video. More works by Jackel on display now at L.A. Louver.

Tom LaDuke, Untitled Self-Portrait, 2007 (clay and epoxy)

(LaDuke was included in L.A. Louver group exhibitions: Rogue Wave 2007 and Loose Canon, 2011)