Creating superior quality bronze sculptures
"History informs our lives and leads us directly to the here and now. My work is inspired from history. I have been interested in functional and decorative arts of the middle ages and late antiquity. The interaction between the functional object and aesthetic expression has changed since we entered an age of mass production. The disposable quality of the things around us has altered our lives and our relationship with everyday items. I believe … 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...
"When I am sculpting, time stands still. I'm totally involved. All my emotions are put into it," she said. "If I have a vision, I want to carry it through to completion." Some days she will work as many as 10 hours straight. "It's a very solitary thing," said Suzanne. She studied sculpting in Paris and the Loire Valley of France, as well as in Montreal, Canada. She gathered inspiration after visiting the studios of world famous sculptors, David … 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...
In 2007 Matt Large relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan from Wilmington, Delaware, where he spent the better part of a decade apprenticing and working hand-in-hand with former President of the National Sculpture Society, Charles Cropper Parks (now retired). Here’s a photo of Mr. Parks working on a figure that Matt Large posed for. In addition to developing a respect and love for classical figurative sculpture through his relationship with Mr. … read more...
"I make representations of people's bodies to explore the ways each individual's inner reality of the mind is expressed in the outer reality of the flesh. I'm interested in the collision of outer perception and inner reality, the juxtaposition of the judgments and labels each of us places on others, with the more expansive terms with which we try to define ourselves. I'm interested in our vulnerability, our sexuality, our masks, and our … read more...
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...
