John Lopez, a native of Lemmon, created the statue primarily using scrap iron donated by local friends and neighbors. The portrait of Ed Lemmon is cast in bronze making this monument a Hybrid Metal Sculpture. It took him about six months to create.

Perhaps the most delightful creation to spring from Lopez’s mind (so far), this scrap-metal wonder features a friendly buckaroo riding a triceratops in front of the Grand River Museum. The cowboy’s raised arm makes him and his Cretaceous steed a unique welcoming committee to …

John calls his sculptures "hybrid metal art" because he embellishes the scrap junk of the prairie with new sculptural metal that he crafts in his studio (For example, he worked a tiny Mount Rushmore into his big buffalo statue in Rapid City). Because John is skilled at what he does, it's hard to distinguish the real scrap from the fake scrap ...

Hybrid Metal Art, a sculptural fusion of figurative and funk, a blend of iron and bronze. In 2008 John placed his scrap iron monument of "Triceratops Cowboy" (a cowboy riding a Triceratops) in front of the Grande River Museum in Lemmon, SD.

John Lopez welds life-sized scrap metal sculptures. Lopez creates truly stunning sculptures from scrap metal. From peacock to bison, rhino to t-rex, horse to octopus, and much more, his subjects run the gamut, but the end result is always spectacular. His process is described in a feature for Cowboys & Indians magazine:

2021年11月22日 · John Lopez isn’t your average sculptor. Instead of wielding chisels and hammers against gleaming blocks of marble, Lopez breathes life into discarded scraps of metal. With a welder’s torch as his paintbrush and a junkyard as his palette, he transforms the cast-offs of industry into awe-inspiring works of art.

Lopez takes scrap metal, reclaimed objects, and small bronze figurines and welds them into elaborate animal sculptures — a process he calls “hybrid metal art.” The final product is a...

John Lopez, a successful artist residing in South Dakota, creates unbelievable sculptures from scrap metal. Pieces of old farm machinery and equipment, musical instruments, chains and many other old metal objects found their way into Lopez’s huge rusty Western-themed animal...

2014年6月26日 · South Dakotan sculptor John Lopez creates life-sized scrap metal sculptures with a uniquely Western American twist. In his hands, old discarded farm equipment is recycled into sculptures of iconic creatures from the American West like a bison, a horse plowing a field, or a Texas Longhorn.

2014年5月16日 · Not wanting to depart from his bronze casting expertise, John found a way to merge the two art forms into a new hybrid sculpture of everyday objects mixed with limited edition bronze castings. Hybrid Metal Art, a sculptural fusion …