What an evening: jd hansen simply swept our guests of their feet. She came to the gallery and we recreated her entire studio, working table and all, so that she could work on a clay sculpture – in front of 50 invited guests. Almost all of them were collectors of her work that were eager to meet her, but they did not expect (and neither did we) how wonderful this evening would be. While jd was working on a block of clay that, over the course of the evening, she turned into a beautiful meditating sitting figure, she also charmed the guests with a wonderful sparkling personality when she talked about her inspiration and explained her work in great detail.
Then she started to focus on her work and her foundry manager Sean gave a lecture about the process of bronze casting. jd had just finished her newest work “Icarus II” (see bottom of this post) which Sean brought directly from the foundry to the gallery and he had followed this piece in the foundry through the entire process of bronze casting. He even brought a small “Bird” sculpture in all the different stages of casting and handed them to our guests so that they could see first hand how much work is involved in creating even the smallest bronze sculpture. Not only did we all have a lot more appreciation for bronze sculpture after the lecture, but jd hansen had a special treat for our guests: At the end of the evening, everybody received the “Bird” sculpture that was handed around earlier as an example, cast in bronze in a beautiful velvet bag as a gift. It was jd’s way of saying “thank you” to her collectors and patrons, some of which have followed her since the days before she had gallery representation.
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“Icarus II” | bronze sculpture | Edition of 9 | 2010 | height: 60″
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