Sculptor’s Career Cut Short

Jason Rhoades, the controversial pop sculptor who reveled in raunch and seemed to delight in offending middle American sensibilities, has died of heart failure at 41. “Rhoades embedded his three-dimensional blowouts with id, excess, obnoxiousness, rascally ambition and a rampaging life force. His sculpture ran rampant, and as close to amok as he could make it in the 13 jam-packed years of his career.”