Artworks Foundry was happy to receive this kind letter from the Hockey team Pittsburgh Penguins thanking our casting of the Mario Lemieux statue, sculpted by Bruce Wolfe.
It was an honor for us to have contributed to this project!
What a fantastic lunch time with Jun Kaneko today at the Foundry!
Kaneko is in town to finalize his production design of Mozart’s Magic Flute for the San Francisco Opera that is coming out in autumn of this year. In parallel he came to visit us to discuss his new bronze project.
We are looking forward to seeing the results!
Below you can see some pictures of his visit and also of his past projects with Artworks Foundry!
You can also know more about Jun Kaneko at his website.
Visions of Our 44th President is a collective sculptural show created to recognize and celebrate the historical significance of the first African American President of the United States of America, Barack Obama.
The Exhibition is composed by 44 artists’ interpretations of a Barack Obama’s bust sculpted by the artist Matthew Gonzalez and initially given to the artists as a blank canvas. Imagination, creativity and symbolism lead the process of creation and the results are really inspiring. Continue Reading
In this week, Artworks Foundry was happy to receive the artist David Goode, who came from England to supervise the patina and final details of his new work: “Game of Chess”.
Goode is being our client for almost 15 years now and we have been cast all of his bronze pieces since then. The inspiration for David’s work stretches back to a childhood fascination with myths and folklore, and a love of the writings of Tolkein.
To see more pictures of “Game of Chess” and other Goode’ works Continue Reading
In this Thursday’s (March 15th) SF Chronicle you can find a bronze sculpture made by the artist Alice Shaw and cast at Artworks Foundry.
The work piece is tittled “One Man’s Trash Is Another Man’s Treasure” and it’s part of Alice Shaw’s exhibition “Landscape Update”, at Gallery 15, in San Francisco.
Today, Google is honoring the 101st birthday of Akira Yoshizawa, an origami artist who became legendary for introducing a new technique of origami called wet-folding. Trough this technique he spritzed the paper to make it damp and then folded, making it possible to create beautiful paper sculptures and realistc figures.
The special Origami Google Doodle was made by Robert Lang, who is considered one of the world’s masters of the art of origami and have also worked with Artworks Foundry to cast in bronze some of his pieces. Continue Reading
Mildred Howard, an important Bay Area artist and social activist, was honored this week on the Alameda Women’s Hall of Fame. Representing the Art and Culture category, she was selected for enhancing and encouraging individual creativity in the performing, visual and media arts.
Artworks Foundry and Mildred have been working together in the past few years and we are proud to have her as one of our clients.
Want to know more about Mildred Howard and her work? Continue Reading