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| This workshop will focus on composition and creative thinking for reductive sculpture, featuring drawing, modeling, and working from observation in and around the artist’s Provincetown studio. Students will be encouraged to work from nature as a starting point to develop confidence and a basic visual vocabulary. Journaling will be an important component of the creative process. Using class lectures and discussions, each participant will develop an artist’s journal, building from the in-class art work and developing the ideas and visual conclusions outside of class, through drawing and writing. It will be expected that students will do work outside of class. Developing from our work in drawing, we will expand ideas into the realm of three dimensions, creating observations from our linear work as well as nonlinear deductions and artistic directions. A suggested materials list will be provided. No previous experience is necessary.
This workshop will be offered in the artist’s studio in Provincetown. Directions will be supplied upon registration. For a workshop which will build upon the concepts explored in this class see Del Deo’s “Understanding Carving” to be offered at PAAM July 20-24.
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Romolo Del Deo lives and works in New York City and Provincetown, MA. At an early age he apprenticed as a stone sculptor in Pietrasanta, Italy with Giannino Giannini, of the Academia di Belli Art di Carrara, Italy; artisan Silverio Paoli; and attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. He was educated at Harvard University, where he studied with bronze sculptor Dimitri Hadzi, and subsequently taught and was an Artist in Residence. Committed to artisanal methods of sculpture, Del Deo has worked closely with artisans in traditional materials throughout his career in Italy and the US. In the mid 1990s, he helped build Pietrasanta Fine Arts in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which re-created the classic Italian luto (ludo or block) technique of casting bronze, with the capacity to cast life-size figures in one shot from a single mold. He currently works closely with Somerset Foundry in West Bath, Maine. He teaches creative sculpting and lectures on art theory both here and abroad. |
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| Del Deo has been the recipient of many awards and grants, including the Sugarman Foundation, the Gottlieb Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the David McCord Prize, among others. He has exhibited widely in the United States and in Europe and is represented in many private and public collections including ‘La Porta della Creazione’ for the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA, one of the largest sets of entirely bronze sculpture doors in the US made by a contemporary artist. |
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