Michael Binkley has sculpted a female nude under a full length veil. Titled "Adrift in Veiled Gesture," this is another in Binkley's exploration into marble sculpture that has the illusion of a naked figure covered by thin fabric, like linen. Carved
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQUhb_yKJ8k Michelle and I deaccessioned a marble female nude sculpture in our sculpture garden. I carved the piece, titled "Enya," in 1988 for the opening of one of my exhibitions. "Enya" is carved from calacatta marble, which is quarried at Carrara,
I have been writing about how much "hands-on" work must be done for an artist to claim full authorship of a sculpture (see Pt. 1 and Pt. 2). In 2006, I received a commission for a public art sculpture for the
“Lift” is an abstract form carved from a variety of Carrara white marble from the Petacchi quarry in Italy. The stone has a white background, with a lovely taupe veining. The sides are highly polished and the top surface is
Ever since I witnessed some mortuary sculpture in one of Berlin, Germany’s oldest cemeteries years ago, I have been fascinated with how stone sculptors can depict the human form seemingly revealed under drapery. I’ve experimented with this subject by carving a
“Il Volo” is Italian for “the flight”, and I chose this title for this large abstract sculpture after its shape and the origin of the material. A while ago, I carved a small abstract shape from a scrap piece of rainforest
There are several shapes and forms that pervade in an artist’s mind through their lives and recur in their compositions. There are the elliptical compositions of Raphael, the egg form in Brancusi’s work and the straight black line of Mondrian
There are numerous techniques for carving stone and each depends on the type of stone, the scale of the sculpture and the complexity of the composition. This short video shows me working on a large, abstract sculpture which I am carving
After 17 years, “Coy Glance” has finally found a home. Sometimes an artist has to wait a while before the right patron comes along. I carved the sculpture in 1995 and Peter Bentley, then President and CEO of Canfor Corp., unveiled
“White Horse Wave”, 2006 I have carved a few small scale horses in the past and wanted to carve one a little bigger, so in the summer of 2006, I took a piece of carrara bianco marble and executed “White Horse