Terry Rooney Male Portrait Bust Sculpture
SCUPLTURE WITH BASE IS SOLD.
Set of 2 Male Bust Portrait Sculptures of the same model, but with slight changes (with & without beard) by reknowned Canadina sculptor Terry Rooney (Ottawa, Canada).
Medium is charcoal black painted plaster cast of model: one with gold painted plaster base (base is chipped on verso). Head rivets / turns on base. Head is removeable. Sculpture is top heavy on this base; I suggest a creating a solid new base, perhaps in found wood. The other sculpture is self standing including partial shoulders.
SOLD: One with base measures 18 inches full height with base x 7.5 inches widht x 9 inches depth (with base).
AVAILABLE: Other sculpture is 16 inches height x 13 inches width at shoulders.
Original sculpture given to me by the artist. Model was my gallery assistant from 2012/13.
Asking $300 EACH.
Artist Bio:
“After graduating from Pratt Institute where I studied Architecture and Fine Art, I moved to Paris and found work with several theater companies making sets, costumes, and puppets. I also did street theater. After that I went to Sri Lanka and studied Kolam Natuma, a masked folk drama, as apprentice to one of the last living masters of that tradition. I also studied Daha Ata Saniya, a traditional masked exorcism ritual. After a year in Sri Lanka I went to Japan where I studied Noh Theater and Bugaku. I returned to Paris in 1976 and established my own puppet theater at the Cartoucherie de Vincennes where I worked as artistic director for 4 years. In 1981–1982 I was puppeteer in residence at Boston Center for the Arts. For the next 4 years I directed a puppet theater called the “Back Alley Puppets”, performing in the Boston area and eventually in upstate New York, where I settled in 1986.
I left puppetry in 1989 to raise a family, returning to art creation only 10 years later when my children were both in school. In 1999 I built a sculpture studio in Delmar, New York and starting doing portrait busts of neighbors, friends, local personalities, firemen, homeless people and artists. I also did commissions for WMHT public television. For the past 20 years I have been an active doing both figurative and abstract sculpture”.