ARTIST’S STATEMENT

“I have been carving stone for the past thirty plus years. It is a medium I find challenging and deeply satisfying. I love taking a stone and turning it from a lump into a form that looks and feels fluid.

Every stone had its own characteristics. Each piece is a ‘one of a kind.’ I enjoy seeing how my work has evolved into different themes over the years. I try to push the stone more and more, sometimes getting the stone thin in places, in order to capture my sense of movement and grace. I love the process of carving. I begin by roughing out the shape with a hand held air hammer. Next, I refine the shape with files. Then I sand the stone with different grits of sandpaper, taking out all the scratches and refining the shape. The final task is polishing the stone to a high gloss and then mounting it on a base. It is a very satisfying act of creation.”

PROFILE

Carol Seidenwurm was born in New York City, went to Boston University and majored in political science. She began sculpting in 1969 in New York, first in clay under Hana Geber and later in stone under Jessica Holden. She felt am immediate positive chemistry with stone. She moved to San Diego in 1973 and has continued her work at Anthony Amato’s studio in Vista, California.

Carol has been a member of the San Diego Museum of Art artists Guild since 1988 and was a Board Member in 1989. She won first prize for sculpture in 1984 in the Southern California Exposition. In 1987 she exhibited her work in the Ilan-Lael Foundation Show at the Circle Gallery and San Diego and Centro Cultural, Tijuana, Mexico. She has exhibited her sculptures at the Spectrum Gallery Invitational, and the ART/Beasley Gallery, both in San Diego. Her work won a Distinctive merit Award at the SDMA Artists Guild Exhibition in 1994.