Richard Erdman creates marble sculpture and bronze works that engage materials shaped over millennia. His abstract forms are grounded in sustained dialogue with stone, emphasizing process, geologic time, and material intelligence. For more than forty years, he has worked in Carrara and Pietrasanta, Italy, near the quarries that supplied marble to artists from Ancient Rome to Michelangelo and Isamu Noguchi.
Rooted in reverence for marble’s oceanic origins, Erdman’s marble sculptures unite historical material knowledge with a contemporary sculptural language. Working directly with Carrara marble, his practice situates abstraction within the lineage of modern masters while exploring the expressive and structural possibilities of stone.
