Impressions from the artist’s studio: marble dust, new works, sculpture commissions, special projects
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...
In 1986, Richard Erdman unveiled Passage—a monumental sculpture carved from a single block of Roman travertine—that would forever mark his place in the landscape of modern sculpture. Towering at 16 feet and stretching 25 feet wide, Passage stands sentinel at the entrance to the Donald...
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....
Public art is not merely decoration—it is dialogue. It speaks to the people who pass by it every day, whether they pause to listen or not. It tells stories about who we are, what we value, and how we wish to see ourselves reflected in...
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....
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...
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....
Celebrating 25 Years of Galerie d'Orsay In celebration of Galerie d’Orsay’s 25th Anniversary, the gallery will present three new marble sculptures by Richard Erdman, shown alongside works by Kathy Buist and Henri Matisse at it's upcoming exhibition. Aria, Ciclo, and Reclining Form demonstrate Erdman’s enduring mastery of...