DAMIAN RADICE – GRAND JUNCTION, CO

“Humanity”

Bronze

22” X 36” X 6”

$4,200

Art is in the doing. I like to create bronze sculptures that pull from the natural environment around me or are whimsical in nature; imaginative pieces that when viewed require dynamic, 360-degrees viewing. If you’re viewing a wall bronze, I think it should capture your interest and invoke a feeling or response as all sculpture should. What you see is the product of the doing.

Hitching a Ride

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This bronze is of an African leopard tortoise with a bird landing on its shell. I saw this on the Serengeti Plain when I was traveling through Tanzania with my family in 1988, and found it ironic that a bird looked like it was hitching a ride on a tortoise. That trip was an amazing experience that I will never forget. To top it off, my sister was able to get an African leopard tortoise; the little creature died last year. This sculpture was in her memory and that adventure in Tanzania.

This is Living?!

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In our modern society, we rely on an extensive infrastructure. All the roads, wires, and plumbing pipes make our lives easier. I was thinking about this when I was visiting Hoover Dam in Nevada; it was an odd thought, but I wondered how people would respond if many years ago, they were trapped in our plumbing infrastructure. Would they think “This is Living!” or would they think “This is Living?” This sculpture was made out of a parking meter, and is interactive: If you put a quarter in his ear the flag goes down, and his eyes light up.

Meet the Artist

Damian Radice was born in Pueblo, CO, and has lived in the state his entire life, the last 60 years in Grand Junction, along the banks of the Colorado River. For as long as he can remember, he knew he wanted to be an artist; it is what drives him today. For over 30 years he has been a studio artist, showing and selling bronze sculptures, fine art pottery, and functional pottery, both locally and nationally. Twenty years ago, he began teaching pottery lessons in his studio, and in 2009 he added bronze foundry classes. Today, Damian remains a fine art ceramist, sculptor, and teacher.

Website: damianradice.com

Pig Iron

This is actually part of another sculpture that I have done. I like my sculptures to evolve, or parts of them to evolve, into other sculptures. The Iron Age, and some of the interesting iron machines that came from that time, were the inspiration for this piece. It seemed like a natural thing for this sculpture of a warthog to turn into something that looked like it was made out of iron; of course, it would have to be named “Pig Iron”! I also like to have whimsical, Interactive sculptures. If you turn the large gear on one side, the pig’s tail spins; if you turn the crank on the other side, you can see the gears inside of him turn.

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