This is the FUN in FUNctional Art

Here is another "Life of the Party"

Fun and Functional, or is that Funktional

"Life of the Party" is a bronze figure cast from a cardboard pattern. The penis is the switch. This is a floor lamp, 6 feet 4 inches tall. I'm working on new pieces for our "Fun in Functional Art" Show coming up July 4th weekend. Hope you can make it here.

Summer Work

It's nice to be working at the studio with the doors open. Here is a new bronze horse 44" tall, just finished today.

Peace Church

Peace Church project is finished! Todd Signs came to do the installation and after a little slipping and sliding they got the truck in position. thanks to Gail Blum for the pictures.

Peace Church

Here is the design for Peace Church in Duluth. Gail Blum designed this to attach to the new addition to the church. To keep the object within budget I am building a structure to laminate the bronze sheeting to. The circle is 8 feet across.



Second image shows the 8 foot circle cut and laminated together with a steel bracket built to fasten the piece to the wall.

            








Here I'm applying the first of several coats of enamel to preserve the medium density overlay board.

Judie helps Pour

This is a picture of Judie Johnson with me in the foundry. Judie came to help pour the Cyrus bench. Cyrus was Judie's beloved father and she wanted to be a part of the process in making the sculpture to help memorialize him. The bench will be finished early next week. I'll post a picture of the finished piece then.

Good News

Good news, it has been a long held goal of mine to be represented by a quality gallery in a large market. I now have Xanadu Gallery representing me in Scottsdale online.

They have a unique method of partnering with artists in the online gallery. They promote the virtual gallery to their clients and to visitors stopping in at the Scottsdale location. After an artist proves themselves they are invited to show in the physical gallery as well.

Marcia and I were visiting two weeks ago and stopped in at Xanadu. There we met Elaine who is an enthusiastic supporter of the gallery artists. She was interested to find I did sculpture and asked for my web address. The result is Xanadu will represent me in the huge Scottsdale art market.

I feel blessed to add them along with Last Chance in Lutsen and Grand Hand in St. Paul as partners in my art career.