Artist and professor Nathan Oliveira is honored at Stanford campus

Stanford’s new site for contemplation and reflection will feature the paintings of the great artist and late Stanford art Professor Nathan Oliveira.

Oliveira was a client at Artworks Foundry for many years and we are specially happy to see this amazing person that was Nathan been honored.

You can read more information about Stanford’s new space on their website.

Stanford’s new contemplation site on campus features paintings of Nathan Oliveira.

Nathan Oliveira was a client at Artworks Foundry for many years.

 

May the force be with you!

Lawrence Noble’s Darth Vader half-life size pieces are ready to go!

The artist have already cast bronze sculptures of other characters from Star Wars like Yoda.

You can find more about Lawrence Noble’s work on his website.

Sharon Spencer visits the Foundry for patina time

Today we were happy to have a visit from the artist Sharon Spencer, who came from Washington to Artworks Foundry for the final patina on some of her pieces.

Sharon’s early work reflected her intense fascination with Native American and Eskimo cultures, affirming her respect for animals and the earth through her figurative sculpture. This thematic thread is constant throughout her work as it evolves into varying scale and different media, which range from large outdoor commissioned abstract pieces to simple, minimalist figurative sculpture.

Sharon’s art has been featured in Galleries and numerous private collections throughout the United States, Canada, Japan and Europe. She has received countless awards of excellence in juried major exhibitions and shows. Her sculpture captures the fragility of existence, and communicates a joyous affirmation of life, speaking quietly and powerfully to the heart.

You can see some pictures of Sharon’s visit below and more info about her work on the artist’s website!

“The Book of Knowledge” bronze relief sculpture installed at Bernal Heights San Francisco Public Library

Artworks Foundry had one more project accomplished this last week!

“The Book of Knowledge”,  is a project designed by the artistic team Precita Eyes Muralists (Susan Cervantes, Suaro Cervantes, Elaine Chu, Dan Machiarini, and Marina Perez Wong) and may be the only mural wall relief sculpture to successfully combine painted, fired ceramic tiles with bronze ever!

Artworks Foundry was involved in all the steps of this project, from the fabrication of the mold, passing through the lost wax process, casting and final patina.

According to the artist, the official opening will probably be in the second week of March of 2013.

If you would like to check it out, the Bernal Heights Public Library is located at 500 Cortland Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110.

You can see more information at the San Francisco Public Library’s website.

The bronze relief “The Book of Knowledge” cast at Artworks Foundry was installed at the Public Library.

The bronze relief “The Book of Knowledge” cast at Artworks Foundry was installed at the Public Library.

The bronze relief “The Book of Knowledge” cast at Artworks Foundry was installed at the Public Library.

The bronze relief “The Book of Knowledge” cast at Artworks Foundry was installed at the Public Library.

Last Section of Remember Them Monument, by Mario Chiodo

We are happy to say that the 4th and last section of the Remember Them Monument, by Mario Chiodo, is almost ready to go!

The last section will soon join the other 3 sections already unveiled and located at the Kaiser Plaza, in Oakland (19th Street & Telegraph, across from the Fox Theater).

It will be hard to say good bye after so many months seeing this amazing project here at Artworks Foundry!

2012 Blog in review

The WordPress.com made a very good 2012 annual report for the Artworks Foundry blog.

Looking back to what we have done in this fantastic year of 2012 made us very happy and thrilled to keep posting our news and updates into this blog!

If you are interested to see more about our stats, you can check our complete report by clicking in the link below.

We wish you a happy 2013!

Here’s an excerpt:

600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,300 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 11 years to get that many views.

Click here to see the complete report.

Michael Parkes -Time Lapse of Angel Patina done at Artworks Foundry

In this video you can see the whole Patina process done in one of Michael Parkes’ piece: Angel.

Our Patina artist is Aiya Jordan-Kawasaki. She has many years of experience and does an excellent work in the final step of the bronze casting!

Richmond BART artwork by Mildred Howard is ready to go!

Another monument fabricated at Artworks Foundry is ready to go to its site!

The BART Parking Garage Artwork project was designed by Mildred Howard. It consists in a 12′ x 40′ cor-ten steel wall with a poem carved on it. The wall will be located at the east and west side of the garage building. The words of the poem in the negative space will lit from below making it looks even more beautiful!

We can’t wait to install it!

Karen Wilberding Diefenbach’s new exhibition

Karen Wilberding’s Pecore

The artist Karen Wilberding Diefenbach is opening a  new show “The Pecore: recent Sculpture” in San Francisco. The collection was inspired by the   enduring sheep, acting both a tribute to Italy’s tradition and a meditation on time, nature and change.

The exhibition will be placed at the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco, from November 1 until December 14.

“The Pecore” shows also Karen’s latest bronze sculptures cast at Artworks Foundry. Here you can see a video filmed at the Foundry and where she explains the lost wax casting process.

You can see more information about the exhibition and pictures of Karen’s work below:

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Peter Voulkos’ last work in bronze “Crazy Horse”, 2002

This video is a treasure found among our collection of old videos at Artworks Foundry!

It shows Peter Voulkos’ master piece “Crazy Horse” in progress at our facility.
Peter worked on “Crazy Horse” together with Piero Mussi since the first ideas about the piece and he was so excited to see the final results that he used to come to check on it also at night time.
It is a unique artwork and no mold was taken from it, since it was made straight from the wax.
Crazy Horse was finished in 2002 and it was Voulkos’ last piece in bronze.