Joe Brubaker is a sculptor who specializes in wood carving, he’s the kind of artist you know has been really “talented” all his life who no doubt is also someone accustomed to wide admiration. His heads and figures are not traditional or classic, they’re more in the spirit of folk art, but Brubaker is always the masterful technician who can take what he needs from more primitive iconography (like the great Modernist Elie Nadelman) and use it to elevate and transform his own work into sculptures of total charm and extraordinary accomplishment.