Anthony Howe

Background

Anthony Howe creates unusual and distinctive (and often very large) kinetic metal sculptures that move in multiple, often mysterious, dimensions in response to gentle wind forces. His formal training was as a painter, and in his early years he lived and painted in New England, receiving acclaim and patronage there. He then moved on to Manhattan, where he lived for eight years and taught himself welding and metalwork and began to produce three dimensional artworks that were exhibited in many prestigious New York city galleries.

Howe and wife Lynne moved to Seattle in 1993 and a year later, looking for an outdoor setting to display his work, discovered Orcas Island in the San Juan island chain. Together they cleared a south-facing hillside site and built a home, studio, and gallery there. Press and television discovered Howe in the late 1990s, and since then he has been on CBS Sunday morning, the Today Show, and Northwest Magazine. In 2002, Howe received the Kinetic Art Organization’s Best in Category, and in 2003, Best in Show. His works are in the collections of Citicorp, Prudential Life, Harvard, Teradyne, and dozens of private collections. They have been variously described as magical, ethereal, elegant, antic, animated, dizzying, other-worldly, arresting, retro sci-fi, larger-than-life and exotic.