“Metal is a pure sample of our world, essentially unchanged since creation time.  I am only a latter-day successor to Bronze Age artisans, Phoenician tinsmiths”
                                                                                                                                                                - Josef Petriska, 1975

"Aria", 36", Silver Nickel, Canadian Opera Company, 1973

"Generations", 34", silver nickel on marble

"Celestial Birth", 10", silver nickel on marble

"Homo Celestial", Silver Nickel, 60", purchased by Rank Corporation

"Contemp-Era I", Silver Nickel

"You can talk to metal, enjoy the feel of bending and molding it into the desired form.  Metal is symbolic of the future and lends itself to contemporal design elements"
                                                               - Josef Petriska, 1971

"Contempera II", 16", Silver Nickel

"Quest", 14", silver nickel, 1st Prize at Aviva Hadasa Art Show, 1974

22" silver nickel

"1974", Silver & Stone

Untitled, 18" x 10", silver nickel on marble

14" x 20", Silver Nickel

"Celestial Bird", 12" x 12", Silver Nickel

"Too Much", 4', Steel & Semi Precious Stone