New Abstract Sculpture – Richard Erdman’s Perpetual Sublime
February 14, 2025
It could be said that mortality is the bound spring inside the work of Richard Erdman. Every sculpture holds the urgency of each moment lived as if it were the last. Fueled by his threshold experiences of nature, Erdman endeavors to wring the fullness from each lived moment, and from each form. He shows us our own present, magnified and expanded like air caught in his sculptures’ stony sinew.
Erdman’s works allow a view of the present, and ourselves in it, as we might be seen from the quarry’s wall— small figures alive on the edge of vast space and time. Culling stone from the mountain, drawing its sedimented history into long arcs, Erdman does not just show us a glimpse of the past and future—infinity locked in stone—he walks us to the edge of ourselves and turns on the lights.
Ciclo
Carrara marble
2024
18 x 18.5 x 13 inches