Our beloved quarries in Carrara, Italy, where Richard Erdman has worked for over 40 years, were featured in the recent oscar-winning film, The Brutalist Directed by Brady Corbet, starring Adrian Brody, with cinematography by Lol Crawley, The Brutalist has won a plethora of awards for its...
SERENITY IN MOTION: NEW WORKS IN MARBLE MELISSA MORGAN FINE ART PALM DESERT, CALIFORNIA APRIL 4, 2025, 4-7 PM Richard Erdman Studios and Melissa Morgan Fine Art are pleased to announce Serenity in Motion, an exhibition of new works by Richard Erdman. Opening April 4 in Palm Desert, California,...
In 1771, German polymath Johann Heinrich Schulze accidentally discovered photography. By dissolving silver bromide particles into a mixture of chalk and acid and exposing it to the sun, he could semipermanently capture shadows. This brilliant, alchemical revelation would birth an entire art form: the medium...
Watch the creative process of this monumental marble project unfold, starting with the extraction of large marble blocks from the Alpuan Alps near Carrara, Italy, ending with installation at a private clients new home in the United States. ...
Effervescent in spirit and light, Seri Tai Grande is a swirling dance in bronze. Mirroring its molten beginning, it glows with warmth while cool and fixed in its final form. Loosely coiled like a mobius strip, Seri Tai's form gives a feeling of eternal movement...
Through several monumental projects and collaborations with renowned architects Richard Meier, Whipple Russell, and Citterio-Viel, the ever-meaningful relationship between art and architecture has become central to Richard Erdman's art practice. Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into...
A reverence for nature’s cyclical patterns echoes through new sculptures Hoku I and Hoku II. Both works are pared down-- tongue-like ribbons of marble that rise from and return to earth in organic, wave-like arches. Inspired by Katsushika Hokusai’s famed Edo period woodcut Under the Wave off Kanagawa (widely known as The...
Sculpture is a visual art that consists of creating three dimensional forms from a variety of materials. Here at Richard Erdman Studios, Richard’s preferred materials are white Carrara marble, and bronze, but throughout his 40 year career Richard has also carved limited sculptures in Brazilian Blue...
“Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.” ~ Aeschylus Bronze emerges from a type of alchemy, copper and tin combine to create a material stronger than either, a partnership forged in fire, the molten merge creates a living material....
The Vermont sculpture studio is a work of art in its own right: “Annex”, designed by Brian Mac of Birdseye, renowned architectural studio based out of Burlington, Vermont, is equally inspired by both the artist’s sculptural language and the agrarian context of the surrounding horse farm....