sculpture – Page 6 – Ruth E. Hendricks

Jet Trails and Kite Tails, Gallery of Lines

LINES. Cheri Lucas Rowlands challenged WordPress bloggers to find lines through their lens. Here is my gallery of lines. Jet trails and kite tails. Sculpture, railroad tracks, smokestacks and jello layers.

Pittsburgh Skyscraper

Pittsburgh Skyscraper Reflection

Jello Layers

Kite Tails Columbus

Stacks at Waterfront

Aaron Meyers Artist

Smith Mountain Lake

Pittsburgh Railroad

Jet Trails

Uncle Frank’s Truck Bed

Highline NYC

Jello Layers

Aaron Meyers Artist

Kite Tails Columbus

Highline NYC

Smith Mountain Lake

Stacks at Waterfront

Jet Trails

Uncle Frank’s Truck Bed

Pittsburgh Railroad

April 25, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: Aaron Meyers, architecture, blogging, city, Highline NYC, jello, jet trail, lines, Pittsburgh, sculpture, skyscraper, smokestacks, straight lines, weekly photo challenge 16 Comments

Molecule Man on a River Spree

Molecule Man Sculpture on River Spree, Berlin-by American artist Jonathan Borofsky

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecule_Man_(sculpture)

April 9, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: aluminum, architecture, art, art in Berlin, artist, Berlin, boat ride, Germany, Jonathan borofsky, Molecule Man, photography, postaday, River Spree, sculptor, sculpture, travel 12 Comments

Wordless Wednesday

April 4, 2018 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: Alexander Platz, architecture, Berlin, Berlin Germany, city scene, fountain, King Neptune, Marienkirche, Neptunbrunnen, photography, postaday, sculpture, Spring, travel 11 Comments

Weathered Gallery

Krista Stevens at WordPress challenged bloggers to show the effects of time and the elements in a post – weathered

Okanogan WA

Berlin Germany

New York City Playground

Near Roanoke VA

Berlin Germany

Gainesville FL

snow covered car

Columbus OH

Millvale PA

Pittsburgh PA

Penn Avenue Pittsburgh PA

Children’s Museum Pittsburgh

Home

Lawrenceville PA

Zagreb Croatia

Near Okanogan WA

Mallott WA

January 12, 2018 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: architecture, Berlin, cars, Columbus OH, Krista Stevens, New York City, playground, rain, rust, sculpture, snow, sun, vintage car, wall, weather, weekly photo challenge 38 Comments

Walking to the Sky: GUEST BLOG

Photographed and written by friend /houseguest Shuey

Pittsburgh, Carnegie U Pole Art

“Walking to the Sky” by Carnegie Mellon University alumnus Jonathan Borofsky

The sculpture was inspired by stories his father used to tell him about a friendly giant who lived in the sky. A father and son in each story would ascend into the sky to talk to the giant. In this sculpture a father and son along with another onlooker can be seen observing a number of people walking up the 100’ tall pole to the sky.

Borofsky describes this work as “. . . a portrait of all of humanity rising upward from the earth to the heavens above – striving into the future with strength and determination. Ultimately, this sculpture is a symbol for our collective search for wisdom and awakened consciousness.”

Definitely worth seeing.

Shuey

note from Ruth- Remember Shuey’s Barred Owl Photograph? click Barred owl photograph by Shuey

September 19, 2017September 19, 2017 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: art, Barred Owl, Campus, Carnegie Mellon University, guest blog, houseguest, Jonathan borofsky, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, sculpture 5 Comments

Sculpture Artist Dominique Scaife

Meet Sculpture Artist Dominique Scaife.

Here she is with her award winning sculpture, Burgh, at Pittsburgh Society of Artists Da Burgh Show (Images of Pittsburgh) at Framehouse and Jask Gallery in Lawrenceville through June 30th.

The show’s juror was Linda Price-Sneddon

“Price-Sneddon is an artist-educator and graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston Studio Program. Her multidisciplinary work explores the basic human interrelationship and identification with the landscape.” from Pittsburgh Press Releases

Congratulations, Dominique!

June 10, 2017June 10, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, sculptureTags: art, artist, Dominique Scaife, photography, Pittsburgh PA, Pittsburgh Pirates, Pittsburgh Society of Artists, Pittsburgh Steelers, postaday, sculpture 11 Comments

Celebrating Life as a Clay Artist

“I’m Celebrating Life as a Clay Artist.” Bernie Pintar

Meet Bernie Pintar.

Today I went to see him in the Sculpture Studio in the basement of the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.

He graciously agreed to be in my People at Work Series.

Originally from East Pittsburgh, he’s a 1972 graduate of the Ivy School of Professional Art which was a six story building in downtown Pittsburgh Market Square ( no longer there)- I looked it up and saw that Artist Activist Keith Haring went there, too.

And here is the amazing part of Bernie’s story- He started in clay in 2009. WOW!

A tribute to Cecil the Lion

River Styx Cruise and Detail

So here is how Bernie packages his stunning ceramic artwork-

he has “nests” for them and see where it says HEAD? He learned how to package his artwork like the Television Repairman who used to come fix his mother’s Zenith- Frank G. smelled like mothballs he remembers

He’d come with a box and say “I have the tube for your set.” and it was in a box with handles, just the way Bernie now makes his carriers. That’s where he learned that method. Frank G the TV repairman.

Dragon Peacock Teapot

An entry for the International Invitational Teapot show at Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery in Shadyside April 9- May 29th 2017

The Piece below is titled Da Burgh

an entry for upcoming Pittsburgh Society of Artists- da Burgh Show to be held at the FrameHouse and Jask Gallery in Lawrenceville Friday June 9- Friday June 30, 2017

That tiny piece that looks like wire or spaghetti? It is CLAY

Everything on the sculpture moves

Da Burgh

from a different angle

Below- a bisque ware piece. What it looks like before the glaze-

Here’s another quote from Bernie

“I don’t go to bed to sleep anymore…..I go to dream.” He shared with me that Transcendental Meditation saved his life.

February 28, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Art, People at Work, PhotographyTags: 3D, art, artist, ceramic artist, Ceramics, clay, Da Burgh, people at work, photography, Pittsburgh Artist, postaday, sculpture 22 Comments

Sculpture from Repurposed Tires

Sculpted in October 2003 by Mr. Rowland P. Buzza. It is made from repurposed tires.

You can see where he signed the bottom of the statue below.Complete with a certificate of authenticity. Mr. Buzza also built Soap Box Racers.This was a gift to Steve from Mr. Buzza.

Lee Van Cleef “The Bad”

The Good the Bad and the Ugly was released in 1966

January 29, 2017 by Ruth Categories: Photography, Weekly Photo ChallengeTags: art, cowboy, Lee Van Cleef, photography, postaday, Rowland P. Buzza, sculpture, The Good the Bad and the Ugly, tires, westerns 14 Comments

Full of Grace

Graceful. The Weekly Photo Challenge

mother-mary-in-the-spring

If you’ve followed me you might recognize this image from a 2011 blog post of almost six years ago. Mother Mary- Springtime NYC

Mother Mary- Springtime NYC

Someone placed a bouquet in the crook of her arm. Today’s post remembers friend and poet Christina Murdock who passed one year ago today, a week short of her thirtieth birthday.

from Let it Be by John Lennon and Paul McCartney
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.