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...
Forever pursuing the temporal qualities of the natural world, Richard’s sculpture Hoku captures the enigmatic and powerful forces of the ocean. Carved from a block of Carrara white marble into a sleek, ribbon-like form, it evokes the contour and dichotomous nature of waves—a transient movement of energy...
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...
Captured on film, the sculpture Velo appears to breathe in the filmic halflight. Pools of illumination trace its folds; shadows smudge its edges. In these close frames, its title evokes a double meaning— Velo, suggesting a veil drawn loosely over form. Details drift between revealing and...
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....
Worlds Within the Forms of Marble - When the eye of the camera draws close, the sculpture expands — folds of marble become landscapes, horizons, and atmospheres of their own....
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...
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...
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...