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I began carving in 1974 and have always worked directly (without a model) utilizing the volume of the material and maximizing the limits of the stone.
My sculpture is improvisational -- my first inspiration was jazz. In my early years in Berkeley, where so many of my colleagues were doing additive sculpture in metal or ceramics, I learned to treat the stone like a piece of chewing gum which I could pull, push and bend in any direction.
Twelve years in Carrara, Italy honed my skills and Italy's artistic heritage clarified my vision. I carved mellifluous musical compositions in Marble. The balance and tension between negative and positive space and the infinite with the finite were -- and still are -- my sculptural concerns.
I've also been rendering imaginary planet surfaces first inspired by satellite photographs of other planets and their moons. these pieces are fascinating to me because of their micro-macroscopic ambiguity.
Stone is a fundamental material. As a man and artist, it is my goal to transform that substance into beauty and give something back to the cosmos.
Santa Fe, 2004
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Paul Bloch
333 Rosario Hill
Santa Fe NM
87501
email: paulbloch@hotmail.com
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Maybaum Gallery
49 Geary Street #416
San Francisco CA 94108
Tel:415 658 7669
www.maybaumgallery.com/
Heather Gaudio Fine Art
66 Elm Street
New Canaan CT 06840
Tel:203 801 9590
www.heathergaudiofineart.com
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