IN MEMORY OF BRUCE WOLFE - THE ARTIST
Bruce Wolfe was a master portraitist with a history of commissioned sculptures and paintings that reads like a who’s who list of political notables and cultural icons, who has carved out a place at the forefront of contemporary figurative art nationwide. He has dedicated his impressive five-decade career to explorations of the human subject, attuned to its limitless potential as an expressive form.
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"You see, I think a sculptor is a person who is interested in the shape of things. A poet is somebody who is interested in words; a musician is someone who is interested or obsessed by sounds. But a sculptor is a person obsessed with the form and shape of things, and it’s not just the shape of any one thing, but the shape of anything and everything: the growth of a flower, the hard, tense strength, although delicate form of bone; the strong, solid fleshiness of a beech tree trunk. All these things are just as much a lesson to a sculptor as a pretty girl. . . .It’s as though you have something trying to make itself come to a shape from inside itself. This is, perhaps, what makes me interested in bones as much as in flesh because the bone is the living structure of all living form”.
- Henry Moore (1898-1986)