Jon Krawczyk Sculptures

For your consideration is a lovely, abstract, metal art sculpture, to be hung on the wall, signed and dated by John Krawczyk, circa 1995. In excellent condition. The dimensions are 2...

A monumental pair of Bronze outdoor garden sculptures signed by Jon Krawczyk "Canyon Road." Dimensions: Tallest 89" x 28" deep x 36" wide and smaller bronze 63.5 High x 30.5 deep x 35" wide. The sculptor is best known for creating the monumental 9/11 cross at St. Peter's Cathedral in New York City from the rubble of the Twin Towers. A graduate of Connecticut College, Krawczyk has studied fine art throughout Europe and apprenticed with various acclaimed sculptors. He realizes his biomorphic sculptures by cutting sheet stainless steel or bronze and welding, pounding and shaping with focused heat. Each sculpture is therefore unique, as the works are never cast from a mold. Krawczyk draws inspiration from artists such as Picasso, Henry Moore and David Smith. He is not only influenced by the obvious masterful techniques of these artists, but also by their philosophies of the sculptural process. Jon Krawczyk works in stainless steel, either brushed or highly polished, and in bronze, to which he applies intense patinas of earth tones and bright blues and greens. These works appear to have the geological marks of boulders, as sentinels that look comfortable in natural environments, can be abstract tendrils or wispy smoke-like forms that defy gravity, or long, thin, yet powerful lines that seem to jump into the sky. His most recent highly polished stainless steel sculptures...

A monumental 9 ft Tall x 12 ft stainless steel outdoor garden sculpture by Jon Krawczyk "Estrella Fugase." In an article about the artist in Home Malibu Times "Local sculptor creates 9/11 cross, takes it to New York Malibu sculptor Jon Krawczyk made this cross using metal pieces found in the rubble of the Twin Towers from 9/11. A local church blessed the cross before Krawczyk left on a cross-country trip to take it to St. Peter’s Cathedral in New York, where it will replace the crucifix-shaped, steel I-beam girders that emerged from the Twin Towers debris, and which have stood outside the church for the past five years." Signed and dated 1998. A graduate of Connecticut College, Krawczyk has studied fine art throughout Europe and apprenticed with various acclaimed sculptors. He realizes his biomorphic sculptures by cutting sheet stainless steel or bronze and welding, pounding and shaping with focused heat. Each sculpture is therefore unique, as the works are never cast from a mold. Krawczyk draws inspiration from artists such as Picasso, Henry Moore and David Smith. He is not only influenced by the obvious masterful techniques of these artists, but also by their philosophies of the sculptural process. Jon Krawczyk works in stainless steel, either brushed or highly polished, and in bronze, to which he applies intense patinas of earth tones and bright blues and greens. These works appear to have the geological marks of boulders, as sentinels that look comfortable in natural environments, can be abstract tendrils or wispy smoke-like forms that defy gravity, or long, thin, yet powerful lines that seem to jump into the sky. His most recent highly polished stainless steel sculptures...

An Outdoor Sculpture by Jon Krawczyk who designed the cross for St. Peter's Cathedral at Ground Zero. Made of stainless steel, vertical members having a brushed machined surface with patinated bronze base. In an article about the artist in Home Malibu Times "Local sculptor creates 9/11 cross, takes it to New York Malibu sculptor Jon Krawczyk made this cross using metal pieces found in the rubble of the Twin Towers from 9/11. A local church blessed the cross before Krawczyk left on a cross-country trip to take it to St. Peter’s Cathedral in New York, where it will replace the crucifix-shaped, steel I-beam girders that emerged from the Twin Towers debris, and which have stood outside the church for the past five years." Signed and dated 1999. A graduate of Connecticut College, Krawczyk has studied fine art throughout Europe and apprenticed with various acclaimed sculptors. He realizes his biomorphic sculptures by cutting sheet stainless steel or bronze and welding, pounding and shaping with focused heat. Each sculpture is therefore unique, as the works are never cast from a mold. Krawczyk draws inspiration from artists such as Picasso, Henry Moore and David Smith. He is not only influenced by the obvious masterful techniques of these artists, but also by their philosophies of the sculptural process. Jon Krawczyk works in stainless steel, either brushed or highly polished, and in bronze, to which he applies intense patinas of earth tones and bright blues and greens. These works appear to have the geological marks of boulders, as sentinels that look comfortable in natural environments, can be abstract tendrils or wispy smoke-like forms that defy gravity, or long, thin, yet powerful lines that seem to jump into the sky. His most recent highly polished stainless steel sculptures...