Sculptures For Sale

Artists Describing Their Art:

Grigorii Ponomarev - I have been carrying semiprecious stones since I was 14. I was learning sculpture, painting and composition during my educational period which lasted almost 10 years. I feel a can create very beautiful and impressive sculptures in different materials. My favorite materials are semiprecious hard stones and I think I am one of the best artists in this area. My sculptures are in many collections around the world. Some of my sculptures are in famous Russian museums ....

Jerry Monteith - Much of my practice involves collecting and preparing wood from local trees. When I began my Core Series, the material came from friends who had cut trees and offered me the wood. Now I have over 100 trees, many of which I planted or started from seed. Most require careful and regular pruning. Recently I was forced to take down a sugar maple that was dropping massive branches and rotting from the inside out. This provided much of the material used to make aEURoeRed Fence.aEUR The scroll form in the piece was made with wood saved after pruning pear trees some years ago. IaEURtmd like to think that my work functions like poetry, except it uses forms instead of words to evoke thoughts and feelings that lie deep and barely realized. My Attractors Series takes the fishing fly as a paradigm object and portray strange, insect-like creatures. They play homage to the incredible diversity of insect life, which we typically regard as an inconvenience at best. While their kind is said to represent 90 percent of the diversity of life on our planet, our kind typically ignores them. They embody my appreciation of the small things in life ...

Max Tolentino - I do not think of art as a rationalization of an artistic thought or perhaps I am not still able to think this way. What fascinates me is the exercise of art; it is doing something that can express my personal point of view of things and the perception and the expression of the world as I see. Anything that carries human significance may cause me an emotion with the same intensity that I see at any museum in the world. Art is an emotional and intellectual product to me. Since my late starting in arts I have been sculpting my way in the artistic scenario with a differenced curiosity so that my overture to this environment gives me a privileged position. Doubts - no doubt - will arise, as my works transit between the formalism and the concept, between the beautiful and the political in art. But the doubts belong more to the one who sees then to me. Maybe I want to go further than the cultural concepts i?1/2 not that I pay much attention to it - but perhaps one day appreciating from outside I may glimpse a chance to be inside thus contributing in a certain way to this world ...

Max Tolentino - David Vanorbeek - Metal speaks to me. Firstly it calls to me, drawing me to it with a magnetic pull that is impossible to resist. I might be walking or driving when suddenly I know for certain that discarded and abandoned metal is nearby, waiting for me to find it. And I always do. And then, when I see the beauty of the metal, it speaks to me again, telling me how it must be worked and shaped into a piece of sculpture that everyone can enjoy and share. For me, the great joy in my work comes from turning something considered worthless into the artwork it becomes. In this way I am showing my respect for the metal. The thread that runs like red wire through all my work is recycling. If I could, I would turn all the old metal and scrap iron I find into a museum of modern art. Just thinking of this idea makes my heart beat faster. My work has developed and taken different directions over the past twenty years, but was originally inspired by insects. In the same way, I see the beauty in these tiny and delicate, but at the same time immensely strong and ...