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Size: Medium
Blue Monk Dichroic
Located in Rye, NY
Tom Marosz plays with the manipulation of negative space, quite a powerful element when used correctly. Often it is the major element that explains the “story” of his sculpture So...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Cobalt Composition Large
Located in Rye, NY
This abstract optic glass sculpture is a scaled up version of the original Cobalt Composition, noteworthy for both its geometric shape and purity. Brzon uses pure optic glass, void o...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Hippo Hula Hoop Dancer
Located in Greenwich, CT
Danish, b. 1973 Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Skaarup has also furthered his education with post-doctoral studies at the Warburg Institute, London and Columbia University, New York In addition to his career as a self-taught sculptor, Skaarup has written and illustrated numerous books on historical, archaeological, and anatomical subjects. "My animal sculptures represent a number of characters that have been given man-made and cultural tools and attributes that underline their particular traits – the dignity and supremacy of the majestic lion, the chivalrous nature of the ermine, the speed of the cheetah, the height of the giraffe, and the heavenly aspirations of the ostrich... The sculptures are a celebration of life and nature and its many intriguing shapes and creatures, all placed in peculiar and surreal encounters between nature and culture. The result is a group of bronze sculptures that combines the gracious and exclusive with the communicative, distorted and humorous." Okholm Skaarup has created a contemporary bestiary, or classical book of animals, in bronze. Each sculpture presents a whimsical story or allegory to decipher, with sources ranging from ancient fables and art history to music and modern animation. The Majestic Lion, traditional king of the animals, wears the crown and armor of a great monarch in the style of Medici court sculptor Giambologna, yet he sits astride a rocking horse, a reference to his fleeting and jovial power. Frogs reenact Homeric battles in the Batrachomyomachia and Micenaean Horse, while mice peer through spectacles and listen at telephones as The Five Senses. A cheetah rides a scooter to move faster, a giraffe stands on stilts to reach higher, and a kangaroo bounces on a pogo stick—a “kængurustylte” in Okholm Skaarup’s native Danish. From 1994 to 2004, Okholm Skaarup was an artist at the Danish National Museum, Copenhagen, before moving to Florence and receiving a PhD from the European University Institute in 2009. While in Florence, he studied the work of Renaissance sculptors Donatello, Michelangelo, and Giambologna, learning the vanishing art of large-scale bronze casting. “I am constantly trying to improve my skills in modeling, and see how far the medium can go,” Skaarup explains. “How many fun details you can add, how many forms you can create—ideally large, heavy forms that rest on light foundations, so the work appears as vibrant as possible. With bronze, you can make the most dynamic shapes imaginable.” In Okholm Skaarup’s intricately polychrome work, he explores the voluminous form of a tutu and leotard-clad hippo, which at once references Degas’s Little Dancer of Fourteen Years and Disney’s Fantasia...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Flores Yellow
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Yellow flock over 3/8 inch Aluminum and mounted on 1/4 inch polished stainless steel base with yellow flocked feet 25 x 23.75 x 3.50 in (63.50 x 60.32 x 8.89 cm)
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Aqua Poppies
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Shaped aluminum with aqua powder coat on polished aluminum base 24.50 x 24 x 3.50 in (62.23 x 60.96 x 8.89 cm)
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1)
Located in Missouri, MO
Cameo Pink Seaform with Black Lip Wrap (94.678.s1), 1994 Dale Chihuly (American, b. 1941) 14 x 32 x 18 inches Born in Tacoma, Washington, Dale Chihuly became the most famous ornate ...
Category

1990s American Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Blown Glass

Anomaly II (2024), biomorphic abstract geometric large scale wall sculpture
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Acrylic on canvas stretched over hand built wood and PVC armature. Dimensions listed are for piece as shown -- note that dimensions are variable depending on installation layout. Pa...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Acrylic

Pillars V
Located in New York, NY
An outdoor sculpture made out of powder coated stainless steel. This sculpture is a rich, vibrant, and shiny red. Rick Lazes is a three dimensional artist who works in a variety of...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Field 2
Located in New York, NY
Johannes Nielsen (b.1979) was born in Falkenberg, Sweden. He is an artist who uses bronze sculpture to celebrate life and its beauty. He believes that sculptures of the human body ca...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Silence
Located in New York, NY
Johannes Nielsen (b.1979) was born in Falkenberg, Sweden. He is an artist who uses bronze sculpture to celebrate life and its beauty. He believes that sculptures of the human body ca...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Temple 2
Located in New York, NY
Johannes Nielsen (b.1979) was born in Falkenberg, Sweden. He is an artist who uses bronze sculpture to celebrate life and its beauty. He believes that sculptures of the human body ca...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

'Crystal Composition', Cast, Cut and Polished Glass Sculpture
Located in Rye, NY
This abstract optic glass sculpture is noteworthy for both its geometric shape and purity. Brzon uses pure optic glass, void of any defects, which enables its perfection to shine thr...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Amber the Red Bottle
Located in Rye, NY
Louis Sclafani, while studying in 1976 at the Siena School of Art in Italy, became fascinated with glass on a trip to Venice and the Island of Murano. After a 3 year apprenticeship i...
Category

1990s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Glass

Long Torso, Bronze
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Long Torso" is a bronze sculpture. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. Leon Bronstein's work is intimate, elegant and graceful. A sculptor of remarkable talent, he expl...
Category

2010s Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Come on & Let Me Know, Should I Stay or Should I Go, Bronze
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Come on & Let Me Know, Should I Stay or Should I Go," is a bronze sculpture. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. Leon Bronstein's work is intimate, elegant and graceful...
Category

2010s Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Bicycle - Up, Bronze
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Bicycle - Up" is a bronze sculpture. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. Leon Bronstein's work is intimate, elegant and graceful. A sculptor of remarkable talent, he ex...
Category

2010s Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

"Terracotta" Abstract, Industrial Bronze Metal Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
"Terracotta" by Joel Perlman Abstract sculpture in bronze Joel Perlman has been creating complex sculptures out of steel, bronze, and aluminum since the early 1970's. While minimali...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Metal, Bronze

Iris with Moth
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carmen Almon uses copper sheeting, brass tubing, steel wire and enamel paint to create exquisite botanical sculptures. She captures the fragility of a moment in time by interpreting ...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Copper, Enamel, Steel

Kusama Skateboard decks set of 2 (Yayoi Kusama MoMa)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Yayoi Kusama MoMa Skateboard Decks (set of 2 works): These highly decorative Yayoi Kusama skateboard decks feature Kusama's Dots Obsession imagery and makes for standout Kusama wall ...
Category

1960s Pop Art Sculptures

Materials

Wood, Lithograph, Offset

"Top Dog" Aluminum Sculpture 31.5" x 20" x 12" in Edition of 8 by Huang Yulong
Located in Culver City, CA
"Top Dog" Aluminum Sculpture 31.5" x 20" x 12" in Edition of 8 by Huang Yulong ABOUT THE ARTIST Huang Yulong was born in 1983 in Anhui Province, China. In 2007 he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Sculpture from the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in Jiangxi Province. As one of the new generation of Chinese artists and part of the ‘post-80s generation’ and ‘only child’ generation, Huang is strongly influenced by the phenomenon of foreign culture in China, which he combines with his fascination with pottery and the material world. Huang is best known for his sculptures of Buddhas in hoodies, displaying an exchange of Eastern tradition and Western contemporary style. He was selected by “Complex” as “25 Contemporary Chinese Artists You Need to Know” in 2013. His sculptures have been exhibited at Niubi Newbie Kids II, at Schoeni Gallery, Hong Kong; “Zeitgeist” Huang Yulong’s Solo Exhibition at Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China; Chinese Artist / Marseille Artist at Marseilles, France; The 4th International Contemporary Art Exhibition at Gwangju Biennale Korea, Art Beijing Art...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Taboo (2/5)
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Santiago Medina (b. 1964) Taboo, 2023, (2/5) Italian Stainless Steel Sculpture26.50 x 6.50 x 4.75 in (67.31 x 16.51 x 12.06 cm)
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Cubic #4
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique and original sculpture by Gil Bruvel. From the new Cubic sculpture series. Gil Bruvel is a visual artist who was born in 1959 in Sydney, he lives and works in Houston, United...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Sedofa, 2021
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Lamonica, 2021
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Gilby
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category

2010s Contemporary Sculptures

Materials

Blown Glass

Return Home
Located in New York, NY
Johannes Nielsen (b.1979) was born in Falkenberg, Sweden. He is an artist who uses bronze sculpture to celebrate life and its beauty. He believes that sculptures of the human body ca...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Statue of Liberty
Located in Palo Alto, CA
Arman Statue of Liberty features a recurring motif in the artist’s body of work. Throughout his career, Arman has worked with themes and techniques o...
Category

1990s Modern Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Don't Look Back
Located in New York, NY
Nayla Kai Saroufim is a Lebanese artist based in Los Angeles and Beirut. She earned a degree in Illustration and Art Direction from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts. She had wor...
Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Hope
Located in New York, NY
Nayla Kai Saroufim is a Lebanese artist based in Los Angeles and Beirut. She earned a degree in Illustration and Art Direction from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts. She had wor...
Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Hopeful
Located in New York, NY
Nayla Kai Saroufim is a Lebanese artist based in Los Angeles and Beirut. She earned a degree in Illustration and Art Direction from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts. She had wor...
Category

2010s Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Phytosanitary: Jack the Gardener
Located in New Orleans, LA
Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His wo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Breath
Located in New Orleans, LA
Thierry Job was born in Marseille, France and currently lives in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. He studied art at the School of Beaux Arts in Paris. His works as been exhibited at th...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Steel

Guitar Player
Located in New Orleans, LA
Artist Enrique Alférez was born in Zacatecas, Mexico and lived nearly the entire 20th century. After service in the Mexican Revolution as a youth, he emigrated to Texas, studied in C...
Category

1980s Art Deco Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Cscape #53
Located in Rye, NY
A few years ago, I began developing high relief wall mounted sculptures, a departure from my longstanding practice of figures and heads sculpted in clay. I was seeking some of the s...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Cscape #52
Located in Rye, NY
A few years ago I began developing high relief wall mounted sculptures, a departure from my longstanding practice of figures and heads sculpted in clay. I was seeking some of the sp...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Cscape #28
Located in Rye, NY
The title, Cscape, is a contraction of “cultural landscape” which is how I think of these works. This piece was one of the first exhibitable examples of a sculptural process I develo...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Shared Spaces Study #1
Located in Rye, NY
Hydrocal blend, ground Carrara marble (wall-hung)
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Marble

Van Gogh Bearbrick 1000% (Van Gogh BE@RBRICK)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Vincent Van Gogh Bearbrick 1000% Vinyl Figure: A nicely sized (27 inch heigh), highly collectible Bearbrick Van Gogh statue-piece trademarked & licensed by the Van Gogh Museum. The ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Resin, Vinyl

Nigella with Black Dryad
Located in New Orleans, LA
Carmen Almon uses copper sheeting, brass tubing, steel wire and enamel paint to create exquisite botanical sculptures. She captures the fragility of a moment in time by interpreting particular plants based on her memories of them. “These botanical compositions seem to defy their sheet-metal origins to come alive. Branches bend, vines loop, leaves twist, and a few surprising bugs, from butterflies to beetles, drop in to colonize her plants.” Through her work, one is reminded of the beautifully illustrated botanical books of the 17th and 18th century – Linneaeus, Ehret, Redouté – which Carmen often refers to for inspiration. Each piece takes up to twelve weeks to complete, therefore, few are realized each year making them rare treasures. In reference to our human connection to flowers, Carmen states, “Romance, marriage, funerals. Subconsciously, they represent so many things, innocent beauty, courage in the face of obstacles and continuity in the cycle of life and death. When I work on a plant, I am often thinking of this.” Almon grew up in Barcelona and Washington DC and resides in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her works are exhibited at the Chinese Porcelain Gallery, NY; and Octavia Art Gallery...
Category

2010s Naturalistic Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Brass, Copper, Enamel, Steel

Warmhole 70
Located in Rye, NY
The color of the piece changes with the LED light that is plugged into an outlet.
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

J. Margulis - Gold Illusion - kinetic wall sculpture
Located in New York, NY
This unique piece by Margulis is from his latest body of works and is part of an edition of 3. After assembling the Plexiglas sheets onto the aluminium core, he uses acrylic paints t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

'King Penguin' Bronze Sculpture of a penguin on rocks, blue, orange & white
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'King Penguin' by Tobias Martin is a Solid Bronze Animal Sculpture of a king penguin on rocks, white, vivid blue and orange patina. Tobias Martin was born in 1972 in Wiltshire, 12 ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Basquiat Keith Haring skateboard decks (set of 2 works)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Keith Haring Skateboard Decks (set of 2 individual works): A standout Basquiat & Keith Haring Skateboard Deck set - with each piece trademark by their respecti...
Category

1980s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Epoxy Resin, Wood, Lithograph

Beverly Pepper Large Bronze Wall Relief Plaque Heavily Textured Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Beverly Pepper is an American sculptor known for her monumental works, site specific and land art. She remains independent from any particular art movement. She was married to the writer Curtis Bill Pepper. Pepper was born Beverly Stoll on December 20, 1922, in Brooklyn, New York. At sixteen, she entered the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York to study advertising design, photography, and industrial design. She then embarked on a career as a commercial art director. She studied at Art Students' League and attended night classes at Brooklyn College, including art theory with György Kepes, who introduced her to the work of Lasló Moholy-Nagy and Man Ray. It was also at this time, in her mid twenties, that she met the environmental artist Frederick Kiesler. Drawn to post-war Europe in 1949, she studied painting in Paris at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. There she attended classes with cubist painter André L'Hôte, and with Fernand Léger at his atelier. She also visited the studios of Ossip Zadkine and Brâncuși. Pepper began her career as a painter, but after a trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia in 1960, she was so awed by the temple ruins surviving beneath the jungle growth that she turned to sculpture. She made her debut in 1962 with an exhibit of carved tree trunks at a gallery in Rome. After several exhibitions in New York and Rome, she was one of ten artists invited by Giovanni Carandente, along with David Smith, Alexander Calder, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Lynn Chadwick, and Pietro Consagra, to fabricate works in Italsider factories in Italy for an outdoor exhibition, "Sculture nella città", held in Spoleto during the summer of 1962. Beverly Pepper has had a long and extraordinary career. Like her contemporaries Louise Bourgeois and Louise Nevelson, Pepper forged a unique path as a mid-century feminist artist. As the 1960s progressed, Pepper turned to polished stainless steel. In some of the first works, she used a torch to carve used one-inch thick elements of stainless steel. From there, her pieces evolved into highly polished stainless with painted interiors. She was, in fact, one of the first artists, if not the first, to incorporate Cor-Ten steel into sculpture. Beginning in the 1970s, and to the present day, she has lived a bi-continental life traveling between Europe and the United States. Western Washington University outdoor sculpture collection. The collection has some pieces which qualify as "land art" including Alice Aycock's 1987 "The Islands of the Rose Apple Tree Surrounded by the Oceans of the Word, for You, Oh My Darling," and Nancy Holt's 1977-1978 "Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings." Other artists in the collection include Beverly Pepper, Robert Morris, Richard Serra, Isamu Noguchi, Bruce Nauman, Tom Otterness, and Mark di Suvero. Pepper's works have been exhibited and collected by major museums and galleries throughout the world, including: deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The White House Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Denver Art Museum, Colorado Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio The Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Les Jardins du Palais Royal, Paris, France Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy Forte Belvedere, Florence, Italy The Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria The Museum of Modern Art, Barcelona, Spain The Wohl Rose Garden, Jerusalem, Israel The Contemporary Sculpture Center, Tokyo, Japan The Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan Europarkas Sculpture Park, Vilnius, Lithuania The Bradley Foundation, Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Gori Collection, Pistoia, Italy Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas The City of Todi, Italy Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Casal Solleric, Majorca, Spain Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri The Seattle Art Museum, Olympic Sculpture...
Category

20th Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

En bas
Located in New Orleans, LA
In this new body of work, Kremer continues to explore and celebrate the physical experience of being, juggling eros, flora, fauna, and saga in abstract relationships that continue to...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Archival Ink, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Abstract Sculpture by American Artist Jack Youngerman, from the Atlantic Ritchfield art collection. Abstract Form rotating on marble base. Initialed JY (Jack Youngerman, American, b....
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Fiberglass

Hippo Ballerina, en pointe II
Located in Greenwich, CT
Edition of 9 Bjorn Okholm Skaarup, Danish, b. 1973 Bjorn Skaarup holds a MA in History and Art History from the University of Copenhagen, and a PHD in History from the European Uni...
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Contemporary Bronze Wildlife Fox Sculpture 'Lying Fox' by Richard Smith
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Lying Fox' is a solid Bronze sculpture with a stunning life like qualities. Being a life-size piece Smith has captured every last detail and given this won...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

The Holdup of the Overland Stagecoach
Located in Missouri, MO
The Holdup of the Overland Stagecoach By. Gordon Phillips (American, 1927-2011) Initialed and Edition 493/750 Gordon Phillips was born in 1927 in Boone, North Carolina. He studied a...
Category

20th Century American Realist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

ISUU, 2018, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"ISUU, 2018" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produc...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Tolla Inbar, Rise Above, Bronze sculpture
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Tolla Inbar, Rise Above, Bronze sculpture, Figurative art, Human Figure
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Early 2000s Contemporary Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

'Mira' Mixed Media, Found Object Sculpture
Located in Rye, NY
Found object sculpture made of patina and paint on aluminum.
Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Enamel

UFORM, 2023, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"UFORM, 2023" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produ...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

UUET, 2020, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"UUET, 2020" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produc...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

OSOZ, 2023, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"OSOZ, 2023" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produc...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

KOI, 2023, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"KOI, 2023" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produce...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

OZOS, 2021, Steel Mesh Sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
"OZOS, 2021" is a Steel Mesh painted sculpture by sculptor David Begbie. Since his graduation in 1982 he has worked almost exclusively with the human form, although has often produc...
Category

2010s Nude Sculptures

Materials

Stainless Steel

Volumen VPC-062
Located in Miami, FL
Volumen VPC-062, 1972 Unique Piece Direct carving on Cumarebo stone 67 x 38 x 20 cm 26.3 x 14.9 x 7.8 in. ABOUT THE ARTIST Narváez was born in Porlamar, Venezuela, in 1905; he was the fifth son of eleven siblings; his parents were Jose Lorenzo Narváez and Vicenta Rivera. Don José Lorenzo, a multifaceted and creative man, sowed the seed of creativity in his son. “My father did not fit in with his fantasies of cabinetmaker, bricklayer, master builder, and self-taught architect.”1 From an early age, Francis was led to the artistic activity, he traced, carved, made replicas of the furniture and the saints restored by his father. In 1920 he obtained his first professional assignment, a San Rafael for the Church of Carupano, and, in 1922, his father authorized him to travel to Caracas to pursue his studies as an artist. He studied at the atelier of Marcos Castillo, at of the Angel Cabre y Magriña and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Caracas, where he was introduced to the painters and intellectuals of the time. In 1928 he presented his first solo exhibition at the Club Venezuela. With the money raised from the sale of the works and the support of Monsignor Sosa, and the Ministers Centeno Grau and Arcaya, he studied in Paris on a scholarship. Once there, he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where Tito Salas, Cristóbal Rojas and Arturo Michelena had also studied. It was in Paris where, unable to work in wood, he turned to stone carving. “In Paris, I didn’t have wood, so I carved a lot in stone (…), when there were demolitions I purchased chunks of stone, I would take them to the workshop and carve them.”2 His first attempts at volumetric sculptures and painting in plain colours, linked to the thematic of American miscegenation and Creole reality, can be traced back to that first trip to Paris. During his stay in the French city, Arturo Uslar Pietri, Alfredo Boulton, and Finita Vallenilla supported the artist both financially and logistically, and in February of 1930, the trio of friends arranged another exhibition for him at the Club Venezuela. Narváez describes his exhibition as follows: “(…) in it I feel that the sculptural work is more my own, done with more assurance, a response to my pursuit of large planes, stylisation and synthesis.”3 By then, as Boulton himself noted in his book about the artist, Narvaez departed from most of the artistic traditions that prevailed by that time in Venezuela. In 1931 he returned to Caracas and established his atelier at the Barrio Obrero in Catia. The atelier became the hub of the intellectual life of the time. “In those years, the atelier of Francisco Narváez was the hub of the greatest Venezuelan hope. Nothing comparable to it can be found either before or since.”4 From that year onwards, exhibitions, projects, trips, and awards we multiplied. He was awarded the President of the Republic of Venezuela Prize, the National Sculpture Prize of the 1st Official Venezuelan Art Salon, and the John Boulton Prize of the 3rd Annual Venezuelan Art Salon; for the Military Academy, he produced a spectacular relief entitled La Patria. In 1945, commissioned by the architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, he produced two groups of sculptures known as Las Toninas, both located in the O’Leary Square. There, as he himself states, he incorporates some baroque patterns into the figures to the source itself: “It is a work of balance between the decorative requirements and the sculpture of planes and angles.”5 In 1948 he was awarded the National Painting Prize. In the same year, he was called upon by the architect Carlos Raul Villanueva to participate in the project for the arts integration in the Universidad Central de Venezuela. Francisco Narváez’s public output continued with works such as the statue of Fermín Toro, La Educación, La Ciencia, three murals (produced by María Luisa Tovar) for the Instituto de Medicina Experimental, El Cristo; el Atleta, the equestrian statue of General Rafael Urdaneta. In 1953 he was appointed Director of the School of Plastic and Applied Arts, and in July of the same year, he exhibited “Francisco Narváez, Maderas, Piedras y Bronces” (Francisco Narváez, Woods, Stones and Bronzes) at the Museum of Fine Arts. Narváez is, unquestionably, one of the great Venezuelan sculptors, his work goes through various stages and interests; as the art world evolves, the artist does not remain in his initial scopes of work. His creations are not imposed by the prevailing trends or fashion but do evolve by experimenting with new materials and interests. When one peruses the artist’s lengthy list of exhibitions, commissions, and awards, it is worth remembering the Narvaez who embark on his career as a child and who, overcoming obstacles, knew how to make the most of his curiosity. He did not settle for living off his successes. He did not remain stagnant as many creators of his environment did. Narvaez managed to understand the changes in the history of art around him. We must not overlook the fact that Francisco Narvaez is an artist amid all the changes occurring in the art world. He moves from the classics to the great transformations in the art world. It is the Europe of Picasso, Braque, Arp. He observes, he is aware of what is happening in the centres of the world of art, but between his craft and his sensitivity, the result is NARVAEZ, his stamp, and his identity. Francisco Narváez comes from tradition, and his first stage is linked to the classics, to the exploration of his heritage, but always with his very own language. Throughout his prolific career, he knew how to remain true to himself, without disregarding the influences of his surroundings or his artistic interests: his ability as a sculptor, his selection of materials, whether they were wood, stone or bronze; his choice of the subject of his work…His mastery and great craftsmanship are a constant that over time have made him a leading player in the history of contemporary Venezuelan and world art. From his beginnings, no subject was foreign to him. His paintings, drawings, aquarelles, and sketches are testimony to his prolific output. Among his themes are portraits, our traditions, still lifes, and landscapes. Narváez is an artist who represents his time. Later, he evolved towards purer and simpler forms, abandoning figurative art for short periods. In 1956 he declared to the newspaper El Nacional: “Every day I am freeing myself, it is a soul that frees itself from the ephemeral wrappings of the circumstantial always, as well as from the inevitable weight of the anecdote. This second stage of my work is remarkably close to abstractionism, even if there are still certain figures or figurations in the sculptures that I will shortly be showing. However, pure, and absolute abstractionism, it will treat the form itself as the sole reason for its existence on the plane of artistic excellence.”6 The artistic development was his professional life. Each period of his life as an artist, he went one step further, searching, solving, seeing plenty of things and understanding how diverse expressions were transforming themselves. His hands followed his gaze and his mind, always inquisitive. He added movement to the volumes. Arturo Uslar Pietri, “Formas Nuevas”, Cromotip editions, 1956 “Francisco Narváez is a path: the path that Venezuelan sculpture...
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