There are sculptors who shape stone—and then there are artists like Richard Erdman, who seem to listen to it. Erdman’s marble sculptures do not merely imitate natural forms—they seem to emerge from them. Flowing, organic, and fluid, his work doesn’t just coexist with nature—it converses with...
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...
Opi is monumental in scale yet light on its feet, buoyant. Placed in a reflecting pool in the Arizona desert, the form twists and curls upwards with the poise of a dancer. This sense of movement mirrors the gentle sway of the water below, its white...
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...
The sculpture of Richard Erdman is entwined with the history of marble and the source of the most renowned marble in the world: Carrara, Italy. Having maintained a studio in Carrara for decades, Richard’s work is imbued with the region’s rich legacy of stone, from...
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...