From Art History to hands-on Sculpture, Rod has followed a most interesting route. We asked him to tell us a bit about this fascinating creative path.

This is what he wrote:

“I earned my degree in Art History from Middlebury College and subsequently studied as a graduate student in Florence, Italy where I concentrated in Pre-Renaissance and Renaissance Art.

While there, I developed a deep affinity - a reverence actually - for the “non finito” (incomplete) works of Michelangelo. ( His Unfinished Slaves, The Florentine Pieta, etc.)

Though I began sculpting in ceramic and marble, I now work exclusively in the lost wax process and cast in bronze.

My work focuses on a broken or “unfinished” state of the human figure, as if the sculptures have been lost or buried for centuries and recently discovered. Broken limbs and abstraction of the bodies are meant to suggest that the works have been subjected to the vicissitudes of time, decay by the elements and the damages caused by unearthing.

The use of contra-pose in the bodies is nonetheless meant to convey a latent sense of power, as if regeneration, growth and a re-kindling of spirit is occurring. A re-birth.”

Contact & Inquiries:

Reach out to Rod for more about his sculpture, to make a purchase inquiry, or just to catch up. You can reach him at:

email: rodoneglia@aol.com

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