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Stingaree
By David Everett
Located in Dallas, TX
"Stingaree" by artist David Everett is polychromed mahogany, and measures 43 3/8 x 40 1/4 x 21 1/2 inches. It is signed "© D EVERETT 2017". It depicts a mother and child, pelican and...
Category
2010s American Realist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany, Paint
That Interim of Purpose
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
The sculpture is painted cast plaster.
The dimensions are for the painted cast plaster. The black base dimensions are 2 x 10 x 10 inches.
About this body of work:
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it were being created through them while they look at it or listen to it...” ―William Gaddis, "The Recognitions"
“A great deal of my recent work was made during a time when I was reading the great American novel by William Gaddis, "The Recognitions," the most demanding book I’ve ever read. Along the way, I extracted sentence fragments that interested me and I pieced them together to make the titles for the last three years of my work. So, my recent work is linked to Gaddis’ novel through the titles, but also in the theme of “recognition,” which speaks to the nature of my work. I feel my way through various processes until I recognize a possibility―a possibility that is promising in terms of visual dynamics but also in terms of giving a body to some part of my experience. It is my hope that the viewer is compelled to recognize some part of themselves reflected in the work.” —Michael O’Keefe
Michael O’Keefe earned his MFA from SMU and currently teaches at The O’Keefe Studio Center in Richardson, Texas. This sculpture was included in "Recognitions," his fifth solo exhibition at Valley House...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paint
Saving Gaia / Release Box
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a unique bronze container.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from li...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Guardian Angel Box
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a unique bronze container.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from li...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Good Life
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a unique bronze container.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from li...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Cloud
By Anita Huffington
Located in Dallas, TX
The alabaster of "Cloud," upon which this bronze is based, is in the collection of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas.
Anita Huffington's work is also included in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York; the Morris Museum in Augusta, Georgia; the Arkansas Arts Center in Little Rock; and the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Anita Huffington's history includes a long period in New York City starting in the late fifties when she studied dance with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Huffington became acquainted with a circle of artists of the New York School, including Kline and de Kooning, as well as a diverse and individualistic group of painters, sculptors, musicians, and poets in this vital and idealistic period. These experiences, and her later choice to live in the woods of the Arkansas Ozarks, sowed the seeds for the sculpture she makes in stone, bronze, wood, and mixed media. Her work reflects both the world of art and the spirit of her life in the woods.
Anita Huffington states:
"I do direct carving in stone and make bronzes, often using the stone as part of the process. My sculpture is usually based on the human form, primarily the female nude. I often carve torsos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
On the Conception of the Hip
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
“Everybody has that feeling when they look at a work of art and it’s right, that sudden familiarity, a sort of...recognition, as though they were creating it themselves, as though it...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Paint
Continued Conversations IV
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Iron
Reflection Series: Inner Voice
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Stainless Steel, Iron
Contrapposto Series: Remembering
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Bronze
Desiderium Head
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods, tools, and materials as a means to move beyond the boundaries of his tendencies. In his recent sculptures of heads...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
The Laurel Series, #6
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Walk Series: Going Places
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Iron
Agathist Head
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
In his sculptures, drawings and paintings, Michael O’Keefe employs unpredictable processes as a means to discover content. He couples accident and chance with unconventional methods,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Pigment
Nude
By Morgan Russell
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "1938-42 Morgan Russell" with monogram on base
cast circa 1982 with permission of the Estate of Morgan Russell
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
The Voice From Without
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
From Memories of Egypt Series.
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Pigment
Walk/Inner Voice Series: Changing Direction
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Think II
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
The figure has always been Deborah Ballard’s muse in her sculptures. Ballard works in bronze, cast stone, and plaster; her figures ranging from life-size to hand-size. Ballard says...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Iron, Stainless Steel
Indispensable Losses 3
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Flying Torso Variation 7
By Michael O'Keefe
Located in Dallas, TX
Michael O’Keefe’s sculptures, drawings, and paintings depict figurative narratives born from unpredictable processes. He couples innovative methods with unconventional tools to creat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Stoneware, Wood
Sleep
By Carol A. Cook
Located in Dallas, TX
"Since childhood, I have been making clay figures to express what interested me. When I make a figure I try to feel what my subjects feel from the inside out. I choose the motif of p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic, Glaze
Rethinking It All
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
This sculpture is cast and manipulated stone, fiberglass, iron, and casters.
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one anoth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone, Iron
Maquette for Memories of Egypt Series
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Cast Stone
Joyce
By Carol A. Cook
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Clay, Glaze
Mr. Blu
By Carol A. Cook
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Clay, Glaze
I Ain't Takin' No Shower
By Carol A. Cook
Located in Dallas, TX
After receiving her BFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, Carol Cook earned a Master of Occupational Therapy degree from Texas Woman’s University in Denton. In 2000, Cook e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Clay, Glaze
Saving Gaia III
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Release Series: Curled
By Deborah Ballard
Located in Dallas, TX
Deborah Ballard is best known for conceiving of figures and groupings of figures who relate to one another (and the viewer) through their body language, relationships and dialogue. S...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Bull
By David Everett
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "© D Everett 1992"
Category
1990s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Ceremonial Musician, Chiang Mai Temple, Thailand
Located in Dallas, TX
This is a ceremonial musician from the Chiang Mai Temple in Thailand.
Category
1960s Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Astarte
By Anita Huffington
Located in Dallas, TX
"The Phoenician goddess of fertility and sexual love, she is also regarded as a moon goddess."
Quote from the monograph "Anita Huffington," Photographs by David Finn...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
