About me

Jerry Cox is a St. Louis Missouri native, Graduating from Lindberg High in 1974. Received a BFA from Westminster/William Woods in Fulton MO in 1978, with concentrations in Sculpture, Watercolor, Photography and Drawing.  I won 1st in the Columns Bluejay Annual Photography Competition in 1976.

Soon after Graduation I found himself working with a local collector/restorer of slot machines and Jukeboxes.  I carved “One Arm Bandits”; life size figures with a slot machine for a torso. I also remade parts, re-cast lost and broken aluminum parts.

In 1981 I started  cabinetmaking, furniture reproductions and antique restoration for Floyd Cook Restorations. There I discovered an area within the furniture making realm called, “Furniture as art”. This is defined as furniture more as a functional sculpture, built to the best quality standards. Through the  40 years in my main profession, I have been pursuing the craft of Furniture as Art along with Wood sculptures using furniture making techniques.

Through the ‘80’s and early into the ‘90’s I focused on landscape watercolors. Starting in the mid ‘80’s with the purchase of a medium format Pentax 67 Camera, I Focused (excuse the pun) in photography over the watercolors. Around the year 2000 I decided to focus on sculpture and the area called Craft Wood, wood turnings or derived from turnings.