Barbara Osmundsen
About Me
- Favorite Medium: sculpture
- Statement: I find joy and inner piece pondering three-dimensional expression (sculpture in the round, assemblage, and wall sculpture). The intuitive revelation in the creative process of sculpting challenges the principal, the very élan vital.My sculptures in the round signify the tensions of life's uncertainties living on the edge, nanoseconds before motion, before it becomes something else. The works are poised, bracing the moment, reflecting the temporal. Although the sculptures have heavy top masses defying gravity, they are perfectly balanced and can stand without supports.I never cut down live trees to take wood for sculpture; all the woods are found or given. As wood grows, each tree has its own stresses, quiet periods, and spurts of growth that it brings to the sculpture. Trees can tell their own story by the characteristics in the texture, grain, and cracks. Wood is a living form; even a tree eaten by bugs, can be sculpted to tell its story of survival.As an art educator, I continue to be surprised and inspired by the students' self discoveries as the spirit of an art project unfolds and comes to life.
- Bibliography: WHO'S. WHO IN AMERICA
54th Edition (New Jersey 2000)
WHO'S WHO OF AMERICAN WOMEN 21st
Edition (New Jersey 1999)
MAQUETTE MAGAZINE November 1994
International Sculpture Center, Washington DC
FOCUS Time Warner Television
Communications, Melbourne, Florida 2001
WHO'S WHO IN THE WORLD
17th Edition (New Jersey 2000)
ART IN AMERICA Annual Guide to Artists
(New York 1995-1996)
OXBRIDGE DIRECTORY OF NEWSLETTERS (New York
1995-1996)
FLORIDA TODAY Newspaper Melbourne, Florida Various
Articles and Reviews 1991 to Present
- Birth City: Jacksonville, North Carolina
Contact
Professional
- Awards: PARTIAL LISTING OF PERMANENT
COLLECTIONS
Brevard Museum of Art and Science Melbourne,
Florida
Brevard County School System Viera, Florida
Wuesthoff Health Systems
Foundation Rockledge, Florida
City of Melbourne Public Schools
Melbourne, Florida
Count Roger de la Burge Collection of Contemporary
Art Powhatan, Virginia
Freedom 7 Community Center Cocoa Beach,
Florida
Cocoa Beach City School System Cocoa Beach, Florida
Tidewater
Industrial Components, Inc. Midlothian, Virginia
- Teaching Experience: 2000-2003 Vero Beach Museum of Art Center for the Arts Drawing,
Three-dimensional Design Vero Beach, Florida
2003 Very Special Arts Artist
in Residence Program Brevard County, Florida
2002-2003 Very
Special Arts Artist in Residence Program Indian River County,
Florida
1990 9-2003 Brevard Cultural Alliance Viera, Florida
1998-2002
Three-dimensional Design, Handmade Paper Collage Brevard Museum Of Art and
Science
Education
