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Phil Gerstner - "Catsius Clay, Muhammad Ali-Cat" Mixed Media
$600.00
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118010
"Catsius Clay, Muhammad Ali-Cat"
Mixed Media
21.5" H x 7.25" W x 15.75" D.
Phil Gerstner
My earliest art endeavors were portraits. After some years of doing those, I graduated to watercolors - first realism and then finally abstracts which I enjoyed more. When I began sterling jewelry making, I wondered why I had painted for so many years. I find as I grow older that I am looking for more fun and finding it in each new medium I try. Now I am having the most fun making sculptures who bring smiles and friendship to others.
To say I use found objects in my "foundlings" is a misnomer. I wish I did find things, but instead I buy things, often at an exorbitant price if I feel that a foundling gestating in my head needs an item for a body part to be the best person that he/she can be. As I wander around in antique malls, I keep an alert eye out for pieces that speak to me in some way as a body part or collect pieces with a theme. Even though bodies are planned and can be modified, heads are serendipitous. I never know what I am going to get.
I work on the heads and faces until, in the quiet of my work space, a voice comes out of the mouth to talk to me. If the voice is not distinct or garbled, I continue to work in the polymer clay until I get a clear conversation going with my creation. They tell me about themselves and how they got to be as they are. Unlike Prissy, I know sumpin' 'bout birthin' babies.
My sculptures develop personalities and have led lives of their own before they met me. They have a history that they share and are pleased that they are now visibly manifested so that others might see them, feel their souls, and hear their thoughts and expressions.
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
Mixed Media
21.5" H x 7.25" W x 15.75" D.
Phil Gerstner
My earliest art endeavors were portraits. After some years of doing those, I graduated to watercolors - first realism and then finally abstracts which I enjoyed more. When I began sterling jewelry making, I wondered why I had painted for so many years. I find as I grow older that I am looking for more fun and finding it in each new medium I try. Now I am having the most fun making sculptures who bring smiles and friendship to others.
To say I use found objects in my "foundlings" is a misnomer. I wish I did find things, but instead I buy things, often at an exorbitant price if I feel that a foundling gestating in my head needs an item for a body part to be the best person that he/she can be. As I wander around in antique malls, I keep an alert eye out for pieces that speak to me in some way as a body part or collect pieces with a theme. Even though bodies are planned and can be modified, heads are serendipitous. I never know what I am going to get.
I work on the heads and faces until, in the quiet of my work space, a voice comes out of the mouth to talk to me. If the voice is not distinct or garbled, I continue to work in the polymer clay until I get a clear conversation going with my creation. They tell me about themselves and how they got to be as they are. Unlike Prissy, I know sumpin' 'bout birthin' babies.
My sculptures develop personalities and have led lives of their own before they met me. They have a history that they share and are pleased that they are now visibly manifested so that others might see them, feel their souls, and hear their thoughts and expressions.
All sales on original artwork are final. No discounts apply.
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