Creating superior quality bronze sculptures
ARTIST STATEMENT I use my figures to tell stories and clarify the world around me. These stories range from gestural vignettes, to personaland spiritual examinations, and socio-political study. The human figure is a universal shorthand which allows my sculpture to have an intimate connection with the viewer. I use these unconscious gestures to express emotion that is elemental. Something that hits us before it reaches our higher consciousness. … read more...
Tony began sculpting while still a child, soaking up his knowledge of the arts from his father, EvAngelos Frudakis, a sculptor, and his mother, Virginia, a painter. Tony was born in Bellows Falls, Vermont in 1953, but soon after the family moved to southern New Jersey. When Tony was graduated from high school he discovered his love of sculpting at Duke University. After a year at the university, Tony returned home where he worked as an … read more...
Kirk Newman began his artistic career experimenting with abstract sculpture and painting in the exciting post-World War II era. What increasingly intrigued him, however, was the human figure and how it could speak to the complexities of the modern world. Newman began his exploration of the figure by creating small sculptures of anonymous businessmen. While their suits identified them as figures of power and authority, their crouching, falling, … read more...
Ruth Gee's personal commitment in art is based on the Bible verse: “Finally, Brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8 Ruth was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota of Scandinavian parents. Her family moved to Bolivia, South America as missionaries when … read more...
"If, on my last day on Earth, I will know that I have added a link to the human chain of knowledge, then I will have achieved my life’s work." -Omri Amrany Omri Amrany is an Israeli-American best known as a sculptor and painter, though also accomplished as an architectural innovator and wall tapestry designer. Self-taught, he taps into such movements as surrealism for inspiration but eludes being categorized, inventing his own terminology … read more...
About Ginger Hadd Bachelor of Fine Art-University of Michigan (1997) Sculpture instructor: Lou Marinaro Master of Fine Art, Sculpture-Boston University (1999) Advisor: Isabelle McIlvain Ms. Hadd specializes in figure sculpture. She takes commissions and works with the client to produce a sculpture to meet their needs. Ms. Hadd creates the sculptures in clay, then makes molds which can be used to cast the sculptures in a variety of materials … read more...
John Schneider enjoys a wide variety of work, such as sculpting, mold-making, restoration, painting, animatronics, special effects, welding, machining, rig building, set building, fly rigs, etc. He has sculptures at Whistle Stop Park in Byron Center, Michigan, and Lamoreaux Park in Sparta, Michigan. He also has interactive children's displays at Lena Meijer Children's Garden (inside Frederick Meijer Gardens) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has … read more...
