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Art never expresses anything but itself. -Oscar Wilde |
| Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater to raise the dead to life than to create phantoms that seem to live. -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Michael Angelo |
Abakanowicz |
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Three dimensions are real space. That gets rid of the problem of illusionism and of literal space, space in and around marks and colours - which is riddance of one of the most salient and most objectionable relics of European art. The several limits of painting are no longer present. A work can be as powerful as it is thought to be. Actual space is intrinsically more powerful and specific than paint on a flat surface. -Donald Judd, in Arts Yearbook 8 (1965) |
| Sculpture is an art of hollows and projections. -Auguste Rodin |
Calder |
di Suvero |
Do not ever lose sight of that first impression which moved you.
-Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot c.1828 |
| The sensitive observer of sculpture must learn to feel the shape simply as shape, not as description or reminiscence. He must, for example, perceive an egg as a simple solid shape, quite apart from its significance as food, or from the literary idea that it will become a bird. -Henry Moore 1937 |
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McClure
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Mavis McClure is one of the finest figurative artists to emerge in the last decade. Self taught and just 33, Mavis McClure's larger-than-life bronze and clay figures are dominated by exaggerated hands and feet reminiscent, but not imitative, of both Cycladic sculpture and
Picasso's versions thereof. McClure is concerned with what can be communicated through gesture, the tilt of a head or turn of a hand. Combining strength of form and primal beauty, Mavis McClure's
evocative sculpture succeed on many levels.
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Oliveira
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Nathan Oliveira is one of the Bay Area’s most gifted
and respected artist’s. His bronze sculpture are compelling studies in vulnerability
and endurance, charged with both energy and restrained pathos. Oliveira's
figures speak eloquently of time and decay, destruction and perishability,
and of a will to endure and to create that persists in spite of those
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Wareham
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Throughout his distinguished career as a sculptor, William Wareham has remained true to his inner spirit, capturing viewer's consciousness through his powerful abstract works. A compatriot of Mark di Suvero, Wareham creates works with a
strong common thread, using recycled steel as his primary sculpture material. Featured in many strong National collections, William Wareham achieves some of the most consistently accomplished compositions in contemporary sculpture. Be sure to check out his current Solo Show at the Pacific Heritage Museum in San Francisco.
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Holmes
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Robert Holmes is gaining a deserved reputation as one of today's preeminent figurative sculptors.
His stunning "Dancer" sculpture series effortlessly combines amazing feats of engineering and balance with the poignant grace of his compositional aesthetic to create truly poetic figures.
A man who did not begin seriously sculpting until his mid-50's, Robert Holmes' clean lines, flowing compositions and rich patinae
work make his bronze sculpture an exciting addition to any private or public collection.
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Bovenkamp
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Hans Van de Bovenkamp
is a tremendous sculptor who has earned an international reputation over the
past 45 years for creating spectacular, unique & wondrous sculpture for 100s of
public, corporate and private settings. His sense of scale, material,
content and form establish dynamic interactions for his sculpture with natural and architectural
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Held
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Archie Held is probably the most sought after water
sculpture artist in the world. His elegant, contemporary aesthetic, combined with his absolutely flawless technique,
make Archie Held's water sculpture the only serious choice for private and corporate collectors worldwide.
Held's stunning abstract works in bronze and stainless steel are superbly engineered, timeless and truly exquisite.
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