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| Sculptor, Brad Rude, born in Montana, spent hours as a child in his grandfather's workshop where they carved wooden objects together. Animals are the strongest images in his bronze sculptures, but they are arranged in interconnected ways--such as around a wheel with other gadgets like a wagon, bucket, wheel, canoe, or tractor.
In the foothills of Washington state's Blue Mountains, Rude along with his wife, Jayne, and two children live in the small town of Walla Walla, which has been his home since grade school. In the mid-1980s, right after High School, Rude began his artistic career. Since, he has been awarded endowments and public commissions, including an Artist Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
For a while he worked at the Walla Walla Foundry as a patina technologist and a metal worker. There he worked closely with top sculptors like Jim Dine, Deborah Butterfield, and Nancy Graves. He learned techniques, ways around problems, new approaches. But most of all, he says that he learned, "the importance of trusting creative instincts."
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Derek James, "Wild Kingdom" Southwest Art, July 2003 |
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