| Robert Wick | ||
| Birth Date: 1935 |
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| Robert Wick was born in Ohio in 1935. He studied at Kent State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Robert Wick creates botanically inspired bronze sculpture that has vegetation sprouting from them. His inspiration comes from looking to the surrounding landscape of the Mule Mountains of his home in Southeastern Arizona. He places nooks and crannies into his monumental sculptures for vegetation to grow out of. With every installation, he replants the sculptures with flora native to the area and they become a part of the vistas surrounding the home.
Robert Wick explains part of his philosophy when he says: We are all formed psychologically by episodes of births and deaths, things that hit us hard, much like the tsunamis and eruptions that have helped form this planet. It is this—the triumphs and tragedies of life—that is reflected in my monumental bronze sculptures and figurative pieces, inspired by both the earth and the human figure. They include living plants and trees as a vital part of their design, the combination of which offers not only a nod to the mystical natural world but the actual visual experience of life bursting from the bronze itself, both physically and metaphorically. My pieces are a symbol of life and how we carry on with it. We are unique genetically, but we really are one and the same.
At Kent State University in 1984, Robert Wick, former art department faculty member at Kent State University, and his brother, Walter Wick, established the Wick Poetry Center in memory of their sons Stan (1962–1980) and Tom (1956–1973) Wick.
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