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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...
"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...
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...
"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...
Jane Bunge's bronze figurative sculptures powerfully capture the human condition as experienced in the everyday moments of life, as well as in times of the most difficult global challenges -- war, starvation, man's inhumanity to man. This American Sculptor takes her place in the cultural renaissance now sweeping the country. She creates original art work that calls for peace and economic justice, even as it explores universal experiences on 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...
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...
