I am a figurative bronze sculptor. I began stone carving the figure when I was 15 years old, and by the age of 25, I established my own bronze foundry business in Charlottesville. Although I am trained as a realist sculptor, and have created many realist bronze portraits and monuments, I am deeply interested in personal expression with the figure. Imagination and composition are paramount priorities. I am a spatial thinking artist, and my work is consistently an expression of form in space. I am dedicated to creating figurative imagery that is poetically ambiguous as to its meaning, with the full intention that the viewer’s interpretation of my work is as valid as as why I made it in the first place. I draw constantly from live models, try to cultivate a call-and-response synergy. Models become a point of departure for me to embark on introspection and an investigation of potential meanings of juxtaposed symbols. Craftsmanship and respect for the artist medium are important to me. I feel that my assertions in this artistic statement are firmly backed up with the perusal of my figurative art imagery.
I am a figurative bronze sculptor. I began stone carving the figure when I was 15 years old, and by the age of 25, I established my own bronze foundry business in Charlottesville. Although I am trained as a realist sculptor, and have created many realist bronze portraits and monuments, I am deeply interested in personal expression with the figure. Imagination and composition are paramount priorities. I am a spatial thinking artist, and my work is consistently an expression of form in space. I am dedicated to creating figurative imagery that is poetically ambiguous as to its meaning, with the full intention that the viewer’s interpretation of my work is as valid as as why I made it in the first place. I draw constantly from live models, try to cultivate a call-and-response synergy. Models become a point of departure for me to embark on introspection and an investigation of potential meanings of juxtaposed symbols. Craftsmanship and respect for the artist medium are important to me. I feel that my assertions in this artistic statement are firmly backed up with the perusal of my figurative art imagery.
“As Governor of Virginia, I am very proud. I’m so glad they got a Virginia artist (Robert Bricker) to actually do Chuck Colgan’s statue. So we are very proud.” – Governor Terrence McAuliffe, 2016.
