Catalog of Available Work

ARTIST STATEMENT

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Pfannerstill is known as a “Champion of Humble Objects”, a professional fine artist and maker of painstakingly recreated, finely wrought hand-carved three-dimensional hyperrealist depictions of everyday common objects found on the street,

hand-carved in basswood and painted with acrylic and/or enamel. Pfannerstill presents work that he has called his rambunctious children, as “they would not be still”. He has referred to them as one-of-a-kinds, oddballs, and uniquities; things he made when he “should have been working on something else.”

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​ARTIST BIO

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​Thomas Tom Pfannerstill was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1951. He graduated from Western Kentucky University with his BFA, double-majoring in printmaking and ceramics. Since 1986, he has been working as a full-time studio artist, being a part of numerous collections and exhibitions around the world, including in London, England, Ulm, Germany, and all across the United States.