Ulrich Rückreim’s experience as a stonecutter helping to renovate Cologne Cathedral led to a career as a sculptor. The pristine stone that is worked in the quarry into slabs and blocks is w ...
Read ArticleMinoru Niizuma came to the US after WW II to further investigate modernism. He quickly became one of the more significant abstract sculptors. His respect for materials and reflection of Japanese aesth ...
Read ArticleRobert Arneson was part of the West Coast version of the Pop Art scene. He was also part of the studio pottery movement, which helped raise the profile of ceramics to the level of fine art. ...
Read ArticleRudolf Belling is considered the outstanding example of modernism applied to classic sculpture subjects. He was influenced by Cubism, Neo-Plasticism, Constructivism, and De Stijl. ...
Read ArticleLike the many other indigenous cultures of the US, the Coast Salish and other Northwest Coast cultures possess a rich, multifaceted artistic culture. Northwest Coast indigenous artists such as sculpto ...
Read ArticleScott Burton was an ingenious sculptor/furniture maker who established a unique body of work that functioned as both sculpture and furniture. Burton’s sculpture-installations often functioned as ...
Read ArticleChristopher Wilmarth, in his tragically short life, was a Minimalist sculptor who created over 150 sculptures, most of them made of glass and steel. ...
Read ArticleInspired by the teachings of the ancient Taoist philosopher Laozi, Wolfgang Laib creates sculptures that seem to connect that past and present, the ephemeral and the eternal. Working with perishable o ...
Read ArticleAlthough the origin of Let’s Laugh Day is unknown, it has been celebrated since 2019 as a way of stressing “laughter is the best medicine.” The national day stresses the benefit of l ...
Read ArticleAlthough in the early 1980s Kapoor’s work was consciously absorbing aspects of Indian culture, in the late 1980s into the 1990s he began to formulate an abstract visual language that transcends ...
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