Richard Erdman

Erdman balances his love of ideas and the hard work of sculpture with a love of people and life.   Indeed, his passions defy isolation, for they are interconnected, as his sculpture shows.  Fundamentally humanistic, his sculpture also reflects his interests in nature, history, architecture, music, dance, and sport. . . Though he thinks of sculpture as primarily aesthetic and physical, a form of play, each piece is embued with a spiritual energy and an idea which lend it perspective and unity -- and a bond with his other works.  For Erdman, everything is connected.

When he talks about his art and materials, he emphasizes that connectedness:  "The human spirit is what my work is about, and how it relates to form and space and time -- and our universe . . and the way to that spirit is through the mind and the emotions and the senses."