SPACE SHAPING POSSIBILITIES Exploring the space-shaping possibilities of outdoor sculpture, Richard has spent the better part of 40 years creating monumental works, engaging deeply with material, form, scale, and spatial context. The result is a wide-reaching body of work spanning diverse geographies and environments—from the deserts...
Le Sacre du Printemps At the threshold of spring, we consider Richard’s sculpture, Reiybu, alongside the singular ballet, The Rite of Spring. The musical-choreographic work, also known as Le Sacra du Printemps, was created by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky in 1911. The connection between these...
MYTHOS OF MUSE Richard’s sculpture titles are not meant to suggest or frame meaning. They serve the work, a final punctuation mark on a life that exists beyond the becoming of the piece, as if the title were unearthed from the marble, just as the marble...
As the year comes to a close, the studio reflects on a period of sustained making, deep focus, and meaningful growth. Much of this year was spent in close conversation with marble, research, and experimentation. Several new works came to be — Opi, Umba, and Cypraea,...
There exists an evocative dialogue between the organic and the abstract in works by Georgia O’Keeffe and Richard Erdman. Georgia O’Keeffe’s fascination with nature’s hidden architectures — from the haunting cavity of Pelvis IV, 1944 to the intimate interiors of Shell, 1937 — reveals how she transformed found natural objects into powerful compositions....
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...