Richard Erdman creates contemporary marble sculptures that carry forward the legacy of modernist masters like Hepworth, Moore, Noguchi, Arp, and Rodin. His work transforms stone into gestural, abstract forms that balance weight, space, and expressive form....
How Richard Erdman’s forms begin: slow summer days in Vermont, hands moving at the pace of plaster, new work becomes Super 8mm frames with notes on process by Richard Erdman...
As we near the end of the summer and catch our breath, even just a little, the transition of seasons invites a pause to reflect on all that’s been in motion this year. Not only did Richard complete his largest work since Passage—the Carrara marble...
Salient sculptures are monumental yet minimalist. Richard Erdman Studios is thrilled to introduce two new sculptures carved from Carrara marble: Salient I and Salient II. Monumental in scale and presence, each piece stands at more than eight feet tall and are dramatic, self-enclosed meditations on...
The creation of marble and the contrasting qualities of the ocean are central to Richard Erdman's sculptures. In 1930, the German painter and naturalist Else Bostelmann descended into the depths of the ocean to record sea life on a small engraver’s plate. About the experience...