Juan-Manuel Pinzon

Summer 2025 Cycle – Art
Brooklyn, NY juanmanuelpinzon.com

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

cultches (tower), 2024. 39" x 8" x 8"
1 of 4 sculptures in my show, "Cultches"--on view at Socrates Sculpture Park. 7 sections of stacked clam shells cast in bronze jut from the ground, reflecting the forms in the skyline across the East River. Bronze, photo by artist

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

cultches (husk), 2024. 50" x 64" x 36" (dimensions variable)
Clusters of detritus, transformed, preserved, and suffocated by the packaging materials they are melted into, spreading like fungus through the park and part of my show, "cultches", at Socrates Sculpture Park. clam shells, collected plastic packaging, ratchet straps, and hose clamps photo by artist

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

untitled (trophy), 2025. 13" x 7" x 4"
An agglomeration of objects on a wax pedestal made in response to Harrison Wayne’s trophies and "The Fool" photograph in our show, 'and I hope to see you", at Stove Works in March 2025. Found objects: mahogany handrail, metal, rubber, shells, frog leg, ceramics, graphite, frog leg, tar paper, bone photo by artist

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

pit, 2025. 48” x 72” x 1”
A towel saturated with wax and embedded with various found organic and inorganic collected objects hangs on the wall. Pit is a part of my work in and I hope to see you, the two person show Harrison Wayne and I worked on at Stove Works early 2025. Wax, bath towel, shells, horseshoe crab carapace, newspaper, larvae, charcoal, graphite, concrete, found objects: wood, metal, rubber, roof, rope, bones, aluminum, screen protector photo by artist

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

lucky to leave a rusty streak (iron 1), 2025. 18” x 14” x 1”
An iron casting of objects embedded in "Pit", the wax soaked bath towel work. "luck to leave a rusty streak (iron 1)" is part of "and I hope to see you" along with the original wax towel works which makes part of a larger 48” x 72” hanging panel of wax, towels, and collected objects. cast iron Photo by Harrison Wayne

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

once bitten, 2023. 15" x 4" x 4"
This is part of a series of rosaries, 6 so far, that I have been working on. A clear marble and bead chain nestle between a curl of ocean-worn leather dangling from braided rubber tube coiled around a chair rung mounted with a single x-acto blade protruding from the wall. Leather, wood, plastic tubing, dog chain tag, marble photo by artist

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

nonesuch (angel on the head of a pin), 2022., 2.5" x .5" x .5"
Atop a nail that juts from the wall is a minuscule cockle shell. The void left by its soft clam body is filled with steel epoxy putty. It holds a single styrofoam pearl between wiry tufts of steel wool. This was the first work using the framework of angels to consider bivalves in my practice. Part of my thesis show, Dregs, at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, 2022. Cockle Shell, J.B. Weld Steel Epoxy, steel wool, styrofoam ball, nail https://juanmanuelpinzon.com/dregs Photo by Josh Wulfahrt

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

cultch 1, 2023. 8.75"x12"x2" 7
stacked and cut cherrystone clamshells protruding from pigmented wax in a maple frame. One of the first works connecting stacked cut clamshells, wax, and angels. Cherrystone clamshells, paraffin wax, artist frame Photo by Josh Wulfahrt

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

sow (shroud 07), 2023. 24" x 48" x .5"
A sow emerges from the wrinkles of a stiffened towel. Part of a series, "Shrouds", of stiffened towels. Bath towel, plaster, wood glue, bleach Photo by Josh Wulfahrt

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

Work Ahead, 2022. 66" x 42" x 48"
A discarded road work sign wrapped in rusted steel wool with a repurposed limb from a blighted tree stands in the way through the gallery. Part of my thesis show, Dregs, at the Anderson Gallery in Richmond, 2022. Abandoned roadwork sign, steel wool, found bent bolts, tree branch Photo by Josh Wulfahrt

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

dregs, 2022, Anderson Gallery, Richmond VA

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

dregs, 2022, Anderson Gallery, Richmond VA

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

and I hope to see you, duo with Harrison Wayne Stove Works, Chattanooga TN

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

and I hope to see you, duo with Harrison Wayne Stove Works, Chattanooga TN

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

cultches, 2025, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

Juan-Manuel Pinzon Innovate Grant Honorable Mention

cultches, 2025, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY

Artist Statement Biography

Juan-Manuel Pinzon is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA from Oberlin College, and attended the 9-month program at the Krenov School of Fine Woodworking. His recent solo and two person exhibitions include, Socrates Sculpture Park in New York; Stove Works in Chattanooga, and The Anderson Gallery in Richmond. Selected group exhibitions include, Pascall Hall in Lewiston ME; Cierah Gallery in New York, and WALPOLEOLF in Walpole. He has been an artist in residence at Stove Works, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and was a fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2024-25.

Juan-Manuel Pinzon is a sculptor living and working in Brooklyn, NY. He holds an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University, a BFA from Oberlin College, and attended the 9-month program at the Krenov School of Fine Woodworking. His recent solo and two person exhibitions include, Socrates Sculpture Park in New York; Stove Works in Chattanooga, and The Anderson Gallery in Richmond. Selected group exhibitions include, Pascall Hall in Lewiston ME; Cierah Gallery in New York, and WALPOLEOLF in Walpole. He has been an artist in residence at Stove Works, The Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and was a fellow at Socrates Sculpture Park in 2024-25.

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Juan-Manuel Pinzon

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