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Sculpture by Scott Sustek

Artist's Statement

Art is for everyone, and can be experienced not only by observing, but also, and most powerfully, by creating. We all have something to say, and have so many different means at our disposal: speaking, writing, acting, singing, playing an instrument, drawing, painting, and sculpting are just a few. Sculpting is where I found my means of expressing that which I cannot "say" in any other way.

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Artist's Biography

In college and graduate school I found myself captivated by sculpture but with no way to experience it, save observing it. After my formal education, I spent the first seven years of my career "sculpting" young minds and bodies, by teaching and coaching. Now I find my voice in chiseling stone, modeling clay, and casting bronze. Sculpting appeals to different aspects of my personality: the destructive and the constructive. Subtractive sculpting such as carving allows me to find the entrapped form within the block, creating or "freeing" while I selectively pulverize portions of stone. Modeling in clay, wax, or cement allows me to call forth a form from the void without constraints imposed by a block of starting material.

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Artist's Resumé

Graduate Work: RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, Texas. M. A. T. conferred May, 1993
Undergraduate Work: RICE UNIVERSITY, Houston, Texas. B. A. in Biology conferred May, 1991
High School: DANBURY HIGH SCHOOL, Danbury, CT. 1988

EXPERIENCE

DIRECTOR AND ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, Austin Sculpture Center (formerly Elisabet Ney Sculpture Conservatory--ENSC). August 2002 to present
FACULTY, Austin Museum of Art-Laguna Gloria Art School. Teach limestone and alabaster sculpture classes. August 2003 to present
STONECARVING INSTRUCTOR, ENSC/Austin Sculpture Center. Teach limestone, alabaster, bas-relief carving. August 2001 to present
PROPRIETOR AND ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE, hands on stone studio, Spicewood, Texas. July 2001-July 2002
MILLER SCHOOL OF ALBEMARLE, Charlottesville, Virginia. Math/Science teacher, coach, and dorm parent. 1996-1999
RIVER OAKS BAPTIST SCHOOL, Houston, Texas. Science teacher, science fair coordinator. 1992-1996

EXHIBITIONS

TCMS Art Show, UT Alumni Center (November 2003)
Sculptors' Dominion Invitational, San Antonio (May-July 2003)
First Presbyterian Church, Austin, Religious Art Show (June 2003)
Julia C. Butridge Gallery, Dougherty Arts Center (May 2003)
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (March-June 2003)
Hermanados en el Arte, Mexicarte Museum (May 2002)
Guadalupe Arts Center (TSOS show, June 2002)
Alternate Spaces Gallery (ASC show, April 2002 and 2003)
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum/SculptFest(2001, 2002, 2003)

MEMBERSHIPS

Austin Association of Sculptors, Chair
Texas Society of Sculptors
National Sculpture Society
McCallum H.S. Fine Arts Academy Advisory Board
Austin Museum of Art
Blanton Museum of Art
Umlauf Sculpture Garden & Museum Torchbearer

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