Tom Sachs is a contemporary sculptor currently residing in New York city. Tom Sachs was raised in Westport,Connecticut where he studied at Greens Farm Academy for high school and later Bennington College in Vermont. Afterwards, he traveled to London to learn about architecture, and when he returned to the States, he spent years working on odd jobs until his career sky rocketed. Tom Sachs’s first major sculpture exhibit was "Cultural Prosthetics". His art style includes recreating many modern symbols into sculptures to show contemporary societies obsession with materialism and branded goods, further emphasized with a recreation of the Virgin Mary Nativity scene, titled "Hello Kitty Nativity". This exhibit showed Hello Kitty as the Virgin Mary, the three kings as Bart Simpson, and the manger with a Mcdonald's logo. This received much attention, although not all positive, it made Tom Sachs debut as a contemporary sculptor. Tom Sachs’s work showed how he believed anything could be created and refurbished, having his sculptures simplify all modern products, giving the final result as complete, but always capable of being redone. (Artist website) Read Less