Otte accepts private commissions for personal portraits or specific celebrities. He also paints colorful, tropical-inspired abstract pictures, and creates murals, mosaics, and other site specific art for private and business clients.
The “Fab Faces” series, which was featured in the November 2007 issue of the trade journal Art Business News magazine, has been shown at several solo gallery exhibitions in South Florida and in New York City, at the Art Expo Trade show in NYC, the 14th Street Framing Gallery in Chelsea, and Freak Street in Provincetown. Otte’s work was recently featured in a two-month exclusive exhibit at Chicago’s most popular gay nightspot, Sidetrack Video Bar,
Otte's work has been commissioned and acquired by private collectors in South Florida/Miami, New York City, Atlanta, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Provincetown. In the Fort Lauderdale area, he has shown his work at Los Olas Art Gallery, Mind's Eye Gallery, Art Expressions Gallery, Art Frenzie, and a number of specialty home decor stores. South Florida restaurants and nightclubs have shown his paintings and/or three-dimensional work (detailed below), and have purchased pieces as permanent features of their décor.
Otte also creates three-dimensional, site-specific art/sculpture, featuring found objects painted in metallic hues and assembled in fantastical, futuristic/industrial configurations which fuse the human form with electric machinelike gadgets and turbo/hydraulic gizmos, tubes and switches.
Interior designers and architects in South Florida, Boston, Chicago, Providence, and New York have asked Otte to provide their clients with original murals for walls and ceilings, ceramic tile mosaics, custom painted furniture, original artwork, and overall design consulting. Otte also accepts commissions to design and direct comprehensive interior projects for private clients and businesses. Past clients include Nokhu Restaurant and Lounge, Ma Tini Cabaret, Wilton Manors Mortgage, Circuit Nightclub and numerous residential clients in Fort Lauderdale; and Chelsea Pines Inn and Zinn’s Gym in New York City.
