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!
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!
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:
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.
This week we were happy to receive the visit of one of our clients Randy Morrison, from New Orleans.
Randy came to check the progress of his pieces that are being cast to go to his next show in New Orleans.
You can see more of Randy Morrison’s work on his website.
One more of our big projects was unveiled few days ago in a beautiful cerimony realized in Calgary, Canada.
The stunning bronze statue was designed by artist Mary Sand and represents the gold-medal winning Hickstead, elected the “Best Horse in the World” in 2010 due to his many victories and participation in many competitons around the world.
The statue of Hickstead will now be displayed at Spruce Meadows on a permanent basis in homage to this wonderful athlete.
For the art lovers who like painting and drawing, we recommend the new show of Edwige Fouvry that is happening at the Dolby Chadwick Gallery, in San Francisco. The show is tittled “Ars Memoriae” and is open to the public from April 5th.
The gallery has also other collections for those who are interested in other art styles, such as photography, sculpture and printmaking. Among the sculptures, you will find also many of the Stephen De Staebler’s bronze master pieces which are cast at Artworks Foundry. Continue Reading
Last weekend at Artworks Foundry something unusual happened. After the shop shut down it became the back drop for a new film being produced by Berkeley film students.
The film is written and directed by Raymond Swanland. For his first project the director was looking for some places around the bay area that could be interesting and convinient to bring all the staff and gear. As he was already familiar with the bronze foundry activities, he saw in Artworks Foundry an exciting place to incorporate into the film. Continue Reading
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