Scott creates Smackers from the cake pan up.
Scott hunts down vintage aluminum cake pans from flea markets and thrift stores.
The eyes have it . . .
Compelling character ceramics bring Smackers alive.
Time to touch
Where the ceramic breaks under the hammer can determine the final composition
Getting gooey
Wet concrete is mixed and poured into the mold to make the Smacker.
Race against time
More like SuperGlue than quick sand, wet concrete is worked briefly before it hardens.
About Pop-Smack.Com
Pop-Smack.Com is a store site owned and operated by artist Scott Bruce. All the featured wall sculptures -- "Smackers" -- are for sale. At the moment we are shipping within North America only but international sales will begin shortly.
Based in the Boston area, Scott Bruce has been taking risks in the art world for decades. After stints as a sculptor and non-profit artist-space director, he created and rode two collecting crazes -- vintage lunch boxes and cereal boxes -- to international attention in the '80s and '90s.
Scott began picking up aluminum character cake pans at yard sales before Covid without any plan. Playing around with concrete casting during the lockdown and the chance breaking of a Wilma Flintstone mug -- used as a pen holder — resulted in the first ceramic and concrete wall hanging sculpture -- and soon after Pop-Smack was born.