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Paul Wegner, born in 1950, is the foremost American artist to use theme music, especially jazz and the blues, in his bronze sculptures. He is one of this country's most successful figurative artists and an inventor of the fragmented style, in which only highlights of a composition are present, with the open or negative spaces implying "what is absent". This fragmented style is especially effective in Wegner's works because the positive/negative relationships create visual rhythms like the rhythms of music. National Geographic Society, Mount Vernon Museum Old Salem Museum, First Heritage Museum U.S. Naval Academy, March of Dimes U.S. Department of Interior, Sotheby's Auctioneers CELEBRITY COMMISSIONS & COLLECTION: Louis Armstrong Foundation, John Lee Hooker Andrew Lloyd Weber, House of Blues Sydney Pollack Carlos Santana Whoopi Goldberg PRIZES, HONORS & AWARDS: "A Touch of Jazz", gala inaugural, hosted by Lionel Hampton 7th Annual "Keeping the Blues Alive Award". for W.C. Handy, the Blues Foundation "Key to the City" and "Honory Citizen of New Orleans" |