Daniel Fenelon "Wavedog" Hand-Painted Cylinder Floor Lamp Sculpture, 1985

An early sculptural work by New Jersey pop-tribal artist Daniel Fenelon, executed in 1985 — the period when he was completing studies at the Art Students League of New York, following earlier training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Fenelon repurposed a fiberglass cylinder as his canvas, covering the entire 360-degree surface in hand-applied acrylic imagery: serpentine striped creatures, stylized hummingbirds, abstracted faces with radiating forms, and geometric patterned shapes rendered in lavender, orange, red, green, blue, and yellow against a violet-purple ground. The work functions as a wired floor lamp, fitted with a chrome collar and an opal glass globe shade at the top. Signed and dated "Dan Fenelon 85" along the lower cylinder.

The lot includes the lamp as pictured with its globe shade and chrome hardware.

CONDITION
Very good overall; the painted surface retains strong, saturated color with no significant loss or flaking across the primary imagery. 

DIMENSIONS / SPECIFICATIONS

• Medium: Acrylic on fiberglass cylinder
• Globe shade: Glass, bulbous
• Hardware: Chrome lamp collar and fitting
• Signature: "Dan Fenelon 85," painted on lower cylinder
• Functional floor lamp; cord present

Bob Ross (6'2") Shown for Scale

ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Daniel Fenelon, who works under the moniker "Wavedog," is a New Jersey-born painter, muralist, and sculptor whose career spans more than four decades of studio practice, public commissions, and commercial design. He began drawing as a child, and that early visual appetite — rooted in comics, pop culture, ancient symbolism, and tribal art — became the foundation of a mature practice that defies easy categorization. He describes his wildly colored, cartoon-inspired work as "Urban Tribal," fusing pop, cartooning, modernism, and tribalism with an explosion of saturated color.

Fenelon trained at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (1980–1984) and the Art Students League of New York (1984–1989). Over the following decades he held 25 one-man exhibitions in galleries from New Jersey and New York to Los Angeles, with representation at Thinkspace LA, Animazing Gallery SoHo, Orbit Gallery NJ, DDR Projects Long Beach, and Monkeyhouse Santa Monica. His work has been featured at the Montclair Art Museum, the Newark Museum, and the Morris Museum. Commercial clients have included Major League Baseball, the National Hockey League, and the Discovery Channel. Major public commissions include a 2011 installation welcoming the Dalai Lama to the Newark Peace Summit, a 2014 temporary installation at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City, murals for Tibet House, and sculptures installed across four Atlantic Health System hospitals. The cylinder lamp offered here, dated 1985, is an early object from the very opening chapter of that career.