About the Item

Guitarist

2026

Forged steel figure playing a guitar on an upset square base with a rust-pitted texture.

"This piece is part of my musician series. Using power hammer isolations and mass manipulation, I create a simplified human form and exaggerate its posing to portray movement in the piece."

Sculpture: 15.5" x 5"

Base: 4" x 4"

About the Artist

"I grew up in the American South in Raleigh north Carolina. From a young age, I was always building things in the woods out of whatever I could get my hands on. This passion for creating was channeled in high school when I began to blacksmith in my backyard. After this, I attended the American College of the Building Arts (ABCA) in Charleston, South Carolina, with a focus on architectural blacksmithing. During my summers, I would travel to study with blacksmithing artists around the world, including internships in Detroit, Greenville, and even an internship in Italy and Austria working on sculptures with Roberto Giordiani. It was during this time that I discovered sculpture through blacksmithing. I graduated from ACBA in 2023 and moved to Chicago, where I worked on hand-forged furniture and lighting fixtures. From there, I transitioned into grad school at SIU Carbondale. My sculptural work now explores relationships through the material lens of traditional blacksmithing connection methods."

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