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...
Richard Erdman works with marble in pursuit of the divine. These abstract forms hold centuries of time; they whisper of the past and bend toward the future, a timeless continuum. Fervent gestures in stone beckon the sublime. Umba Carrara marble 2024 29 x 23 x 20 inches...
As a form that holds space without containing it, Velo compels a closer look, like catching a shadow or movement from the periphery. Its form almost opens, almost unfolds. The marble evokes the warmth of flesh, or a bloom opening, loosening its grip on becoming. A sense of...
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. ...