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Sculpture Vulture: Beginning Life

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Today’s Sculpture Vulture is Kathleen Caricof’s Beginning Life. This abstract sculpture was purchased in 2009 for the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden. Caricof has shown at the Sculpture at the River Market invitational.

Kathleen Caricof has gained many accolades for her stone sculpture and reliefs over the years including a ‘Purchase Award’ and ‘Best of Show’ at the 2007 Sculpture at the River Market Invitational in Little Rock, AR. Her interest in sculpture developed from a background in designing for space. Caricof earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Design from the Art Center College of Design emphasizing in graphic design, packaging, environmental planning and transportation.

Past professional experience has included being an Associate Designer for Schorer & Associates and owner of Caricof-Burns Designs, primarily in the areas of Graphic/Packaging and Interior Design. Specific projects included working with Buckminister Fuller in product design and with PPG Glass in developing a next generation of products.

Caricof works in a variety of materials specific to each artwork and site; including steel, natural stone, composite stone, wood, and glass. Most recent public placements are ‘Stars and Stripes’ a 30ftx40ft intertwining stainless steel sculpture as the Veteran’s Memorial for the War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock, AR.

For more than 20 years, Caricof has carved with sculptors from around the world as an instructor at the MARBLE/marble Institute of Colorado. She also teaches at the Art Students League in Denver. Since 1996 she has been a member of the National Sculptors’ Guild

Sculpture Vulture: Uptown Saturday Night

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One of the sculptures in the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden is Bryan W. Massey Sr.’s Uptown Saturday Night.  This bronze sculpture depicts a couple dancing the night away.

Massey, on the faculty of the University of Central Arkansas, received one of the top 10 Best of Show awards at the 2009 and 2010 Sculpture at the River Market Invitational Show and Sale.  Though primarily a stone carver working with a variation of stone, Massey also casts in iron, bronze, and aluminum as well as fabrication of steel sculptures.

Uptown Saturday Night was purchased in 2009 and installed in the Vogel Schwartz Garden when it opened.

Sculpture Vulture: Jan Woods’ FULL OF HIMSELF

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Since the Belmont Stakes were run yesterday and tonight’s Tony Awards promises many tight horse races, today’s Sculpture Vulture features one of the horse sculptures found in the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden in Riverfront Park.

Jan Woods’ Full of Himself was installed in 2009. It was donated by Ms. Woods and the National Sculptors’ Guild. Ms. Woods was a featured sculptor during the 2009 Sculpture at the River Market event. The sculpture, made of bronze, depicts a horse mid-canter standing tall with head erect and tail proudly raised.

Woods creates sculptures of a variety of subjects (including doing the bust of President Clinton which is on the grounds of the Arkansas Governor’s Mansion) but is perhaps best known for her equine sculptures.

Sculpture Vulture: Michael Warrick’s GROWN

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Since June is a month in which people spend a lot of time in gardens, the Sculpture Vulture will focus on sculptures found in a garden. In this instance it is the Vogel Schwartz Sculpture Garden, located in Riverfront Park. Over 30 sculptures are located in this garden, which opened in 2009.

Today’s is Michael Warrick’s Grown which was installed in 2010. Using bronze, Warrick creates a framework to evoke the lower-half of a human. What initially looks merely like an abstract series of strips is, in fact, sculpted to resemble twigs and branches. The sculpture is approximately four feet tall, making it roughly 25% larger than life.

Warrick is a longtime faculty member at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and has sculptures placed as far away as China in addition to appearing in many public and private collections in Arkansas and throughout the United States.

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Arts & Humanities Month: Sculpture at the River Market

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For the fifth year, the River Market Pavilions and surrounding area will be filled with hundreds of sculptures and thousands of people as the annual Sculpture at the River Market returns from October 14 through 16.

Several of the pieces purchased at previous shows are now on display throughout Little Rock including in Riverfront Park’s Vogel Schwartz Sulpture Garden.

The sculptures featured will include all types of media, style, subject matter, and size.  Among the artists participating are Michael Warrick, Kathleen Caricof, Tim Cherry, Denny Haskew, Shelley Buonaiuto, Dale Roark, Margaret Warren, Carolyn Barlock, Rollin Karg, Ed Pennebaker, Don Rambadt, Ron Chapel, Charles White, Jane Dedecker, Seth Vandable, Ted Schaal, Merrilee Cleveland, Timothy Nimmo, Clay Enoch, Mark Leichliter, James Vilona, Darrell Davis, Susie Chisholm, Daivd Nunneley, C.T. Whitehouse, Belgin Yucelen, Dee Clements, Terry Bean, Merlel Randolph, Karla Runquist, James Paulsen, Peter Rujuwa, Bryan Massey Sr., William Kolok, John Sewell, Ken Newman, Kim Shaklee, Gene Sparling, Alex Brown, Connie Hendrix, Pati Stajcar, Jim Goshorn, Julie McCraney-Brogdon, and Kevin Robb.

Admission to Sculpture at the River Market is free. Sculpture at the Market will run from 9AM to 5PM on Saturday, October 15 and from 10AM to 4PM on Sunday, October 16.

The sale and show is sponsored by the City of Little Rock and the National Sculptors’ Guild. Proceeds from the sale of artwork will fund upgrades in Riverfront Park and the River Market.