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Artist Exhibitions:
Mr. Keropian will be
exhibiting Clapotis and
Atalanta at the Viselaya
Garden in September and
October of 2005.
More information can be found
at:
http://www.viselaya.org
http://www.keropiansculpture.co
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Further Information
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Artist Galleries:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Michael Keropian
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Creating representational sculpture for the home, garden, memorial and architectural site.
Sculptures available in bronze, stone, wood and terra cotta.
Mr. Keropian's sculpture of figures and animals are combined with the elements of nature in a spiritual celebration of movement, shape and form.
In 2000, he was commissioned to create nine heroic-sized tigers for the new home of the Detroit Tigers, Comerica Park.
Mr. Keropian is currently involved in a couple historical sculptures relating to the American Revolution: Patriot's Memorial for Patterson, New York. Sachem Daniel Nimham for the Town of Kent New York.
Mr. Keropian states:
I have always been inspired to create figurative art and combine the movement of the figure with elements of nature, space and form. For me the abstraction of a work of art is in it's composition; how does it appear from a distance where no details are discernible?
Does it attract you or pull you away? The same principle can be applied to the sculptural portrait. When someone identifies a friend at a distance, details are not readable, rather the person identifies that person by the facial and skull structure of the individual, and also the way that person carries themselves.
The goal of creating a figure in clay is not to copy the figure as a machine can but to breathe into it a spirit of one's self and that of the subject.
In essence a dance between the subject and the artist.
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