Clarence Philbrick
Gunslinger of the Corner Three Sentinel, 2023
Rubber basketball, carbon-steel catcher's mask, shoes, cap-guns, baseball glove, yarn, and pine tar
18 x 16 x 10"

Asrtist Statement
Can be used for display or ritual.

Sentinels served various purposes, often equally invested in moving a team closer to championships as in helping athletes and fans deal with losses, psychological pain, and grief. These idols were created to represent supernatural beings and harness their uncanny powers. They were strategically placed in lockers, homes, sports bars, training facilities, or around the stadium, field, or court. Some guarded athletes and, in turn, teams and entire cities, from injuries and psychological trappings such as slumps, the yips, performance anxiety, or Steve Sax Syndrome. Others were designed to invite in flow-state, irrational confidence, unified swagger, or communal support.

This particular sentinel, as its name suggests, was/is/can be used to invite offensive fire power into ones life through confidence and mantras like "just let it go".

Artist Bio
Clarence Philbrick is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges visual arts, social practice, and relational research. His work investigates the transformative power of community, cultural dimensions of sports and play, and disassembling harmful patriarchal norms. Through ritual objects and social projects, Philbrick explores the violence and humor intertwined in dominant versions of masculinity.

Since graduating from Vassar College (BA) and The University of New Mexico (MFA), Philbrick has engaged with object making and a series of performance-based works, embodying themes of myth making, ritual, collective effort, play, and healing. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and his participatory projects have been featured by BBC, New Yorker Magazine, WHYY/NPR, Playboy, HuffPost, and Ethiopian TV.

Thomas Miles
Hands up., 2021
Bronze patinated urethane
14 x 3-1/2 x 2-1/2"
1 of 8

Artist Statement
As a visual artist I am interested in organic forms. The figure has been the driving force behind my work. For over four decades I have been making artwork for public spaces both independently and collaboratively. This figure was a study of form. Although I had no intention of creating a form that would be relevant to todays cultural climate of discourse, this figure with her "Hands Up" seems to be here to recognize and honor the vulnerability and fear innocent people are experiencing.

Artist Bio
In my professional career, I owned an art fabrication business for large artwork and public sculpture. During that time I used a breadth of material and processes to create durable, long lasting sculpture that became part of the architecture and their environments. I have worked with a range of artist including Jeff Koons, Frank Stella, and Nancy Graves. Locally, Big Ben at Franklin Town (co-created with Alexander L. Generalis) and The Sign Boy, are among the most viewed works of public art in Philadelphia. I have worked with both traditional and contemporary tools and technologies. As an early adopter of 3D scanning and CNC machining for enlarging sculpture, I was a sought after problem-solver for enlarging skills. In the past I served on the boards of numerous arts organizations and institutions, including The University of the Arts, Philadelphia Game Lab (PGL), and TILT. I am an active board member of Avenue of the Arts Inc. (AAI), and White Box Theatre.

John Y. Wind
Blue Jay, 2022
Assemblage
17 x 12 x 12"

Artist Statement
Blue Jay is from my "Whiskey Rebellion" series, in which I embellished a series of figurative whiskey decanters originally produced as collectibles by Jim Beam and their competitors in the 1960s and 70s. While most of "Whiskey Rebellion" focuses on Revolutionary War heroes, the birds serve as companions to the generals and soldiers, and are embellished in similar manner--teasing the flamboyance of military regalia by using charms, social action pins, and other contemporary materials to recontextualize and engage them in the current moment.
The use of birds has another reference as well, and that is to my 'day job' in the gift world. "Put a bird on it," was a refrain popularized by the TV show Portlandia, and refers to the timeless appeal of bird imagery at retail~ A factor at play in my selection of this work for the InLiquid benefit as well ;)

Artist Bio
John Y. Wind is a multi-disciplinary artist, creating narrative portraits, assemblages and installations. He is also the co-founder of Maximal Art Inc, known for 40 years of 'Modern Vintage' fashion jewelry and gifts, sold internationally under the John Wind brand. His work has been shown and collected by the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of the American Revolution and Woodmere Art Museum. A new exhibition, "Dear John: John Frederick Lewis, John Yaron Wind and the Rosenbach Brothers", is currently on view at the Rosenbach Museum & Library, Philadelphia through December 2026.