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This year Joe and I started working in glass and plan to incorporate cast glass into some of our pieces. The Heron Bowl above was cast in a stainless steel form. The heron and nest are investment cast bronze. We have always felt that bronze and glass complement each other and this will allow us to explore new color with our work. Please check the link below to view our other glass/bronze work and see details. |
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One of the oldest traditions in human history is the working of bronze into aesthetic and functional forms. As early as 2500 B.C.E., artisans in Egypt smelted, poured, pounded, and shaped rough ores into gleaming cups and delicate bracelets for royal patrons who in turn offered them up to protective gods. It is no wonder that the Bronze Age arrived in Egypt during the brilliance of the Old Kingdom--those five hundred years which produced such engineering feats as the Great Pyramids, and which graced Egypt with a serenity and peace which to our modern age seems so timeless.
Timeless and serene. These are the qualities Joseph and Georgia Pozycinski capture as they transform bronze into contemporary organic sculpture, intriguing vessels, and elegantly quiet fountains. Their work is immediately engaging: simple yet complex, familiar yet provocative, modern yet fraught here and there with glimpses of ancient culture. We recognize the shapes, and the forms, yet the recognition seems to come from some long distant past, as if some bronze archetype had once more found its expression. This engagement in their artwork of past with present, of organic form with inorganic medium, is itself a result of the union of the creative energies between them.
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Joe's personal history took him into engineering and technology;
Georgia's into marine biology and zoology. In 1975 they
moved to the small town of Sparta (near Springfield) in southwest
Missouri. There they found the time, and the peace, to develop
their skills in wood and pottery. Joe's lacquered wood vessels
tapped into a rich vein of ancient Chinese craftsmanship and developed
his eye for simple, elegant form. Georgia's sculptured clay work heightened
her sense of primal organic complexity and the timelessness of marine life
forms. In 1993, having each developed a unique expression through two separate media, Joe and Georgia turned to various forms of metal sculpture and found bronze to be the perfect medium for their collaborative work. Since working in bronze is technically more complex than working in wood or clay, they learned new skills in ancient methods: mold making, lost wax casting, toreutics (metal shaping), and patination. Their work is a collaboration of technical skills honed along the edge of spontaneous insight and creativity, a union of aesthetic sensibilities responsive to a demanding yet elegant, rich, and powerful medium, and ultimately an expression of the timeless human need to cast itself in some lasting form of natural, serene beauty.
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Pozycinski Bronze
Studios have won awards at the best art festivals in the country,
including the Coconut Grove Art Festival, the Winter Park Art Festival
in Orlando, the Cherry Creek Art Festival in Denver and the Rolex
Award for excellence in Metal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft
Show in 2001 and 2003. They have exhibited at the following
fine art & craft shows. |
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| Joseph and Georgia Pozycinski are also represented by many fine galleries and have their work in many private and corporate collections. | ||