Paul Rigby   Sculpture Resume                                                             

ART EDUCATION

 Fleischer Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA, 
    Frank Gasparro, my first sculpture teacher
    Al Gury, anatomy, drawing
    David Berger, drawing
    Karen Brown, sculpture, mold-making
    Douglas Randall, drawing  
    Elisabeth Nickles, figure modeling
    Chris Smith, figure modeling, relief sculpture

Portrait Stone Carving Workshop, Cape May NJ, 
    Gerald Lynch, stone carving

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art , Philadelphia PA, 
    Steve Nocella, stone carving
    John Horn, figure and portrait modeling, mold-making
    Elisabeth Nickles, animal sculpture

The Carving Studio, Rutland VT, 
    Fred Brownstein, figure carving in marble
    Don Ramey, granite carving
    Peter Lundberg, concrete casting
    Jonathan Appell, gravestone restoration
    Leonardo Corsanini, Massimo Baldoni, Steve Shaheen,  enlargement with calipers

Camden County College, Blackwood NJ
    Gus Bosco, figure and portrait sculpture

Peters Valley Craft Education Center, Layton NJ, 
    Mark Wilkin, wood carving

The Compleat Sculptor, New York NY, 
    David Klass, ecorche figure modeling

Johnson Atelier, Mercerville NJ, 
    Peter Rubino, portrait modeling
    Christoph Spath, stone carving

PolyTek Corporation, Easton PA, 
    Robert LeCompte, resin mold-making 

Portrait Modeling (private), 
    Jennifer Frudakis

Portrait Society of America, Philadelphia PA
    Ed Jonas, photography

Ceramics Restoration (private),
    Jim Evans

Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park PA
    Shane and Julia Stratton, foundry

Schuylkill Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA
    Stuart Mark Feldman, portrait and figure sculpture
    Kevin P. Lewellen, figure sculpture

Celestial Memorials, Barre VT
    Gary Sassi, granite carving and enlargement methods

Gloucester County Institute of Technology, Sewell NJ
    Dan Roskiewich, Welding I and II

TEACHING

Camden County College, Blackwood NJ , Sculpture I and II

Teen Arts Festival, Richard Stockton State College, Pomona NJ,
    The Art of Stone Carving

New Jersey Art Educators-South, Gloucester County College, Sewell NJ,
    Animal Sculpture

Oakcrest Regional High School, Mays Landing NJ, Mascot Project

Noyes Museum of Art, Meet the Artist Program, Atlantic City Schools.

EXHIBITIONS

Group Shows:

Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia PA, April 1993, received the Augusta Powell Award.
Woodmere Art Gallery, Germantown PA, May 1995.
Camden County College, Blackwood NJ, May 1997,  President's Purchase Award.
Markeim Art Center, Haddonfield NJ, October 2000, Honorable Mention.
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA (student gallery) 1996, 2002.
Riverfront Renaissance Art Center, Millville NJ, 2001.
Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies NJ, Philadelphia Sculptors Show, 2002.
Gloucester County Juried Art Show, Sewell NJ, 2002.
Stained Glass Eatery, Blackwood NJ, 2003.
Boudreau's, Blackwood NJ, 2004.
Noyes Museum, Oceanville NJ, 2004.
Riverfront Renaissance Center, Millville NJ, 2005.
Schuylkill Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia PA (student gallery) 2005.
Cape May Nature Center, Cape May NJ 2006
Rutgers University, Camden Campus NJ 2006
Pleiades Gallery, New York NY 2006
Garden Pier Museum, Atlantic City NJ 2007 (Philadelphia Sculptors)
Art at the Straube Center, Pennington, NJ 2008
Highlands Mansion, Fort Washington, PA 2009
Wayne Arts Center, Wayne PA  2013
New Hope Arts Center, New Hope PA  2013
Selma Burke Sculpture Show, Doylestown, PA  2013
Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts Street Fair  2013 (Philadelphia Sculptors)
New Hope Arts Center, New Hope PA  2014
Carving Studio, Rutland VT  2015

Individual Shows:

Atlantic Cape Community College, April 1999   www.atlantic.edu/~bjacobs/artgal/artgal.html   (click through to shows)

GALLERY REPRESENTATION 

Beacon Fine Arts Gallery, Red Bank, NJ, www.beaconfineartsgallery.com
Chestnut Hill Gallery, Philadelphia PA, www.chestnuthillgallery.com
Hobensack & Keller, New Hope NJ
Pandion Gallery, Fishers Island, NY
Capital Antiques, Washington, DC www.capitalantiques.com 


NEWS ARTICLES

The Stone Carvings of Paul Rigby. Slippery Rock Gazette, The Beacon of the Stone Industry (Knoxville, TN) August 2000

Stone Carvers Polish Their Art. The Herald Times (Bloomington, IN) June 22, 2001

Foundation Show (review of Philadelphia Sculptors group show), The SandPaper (Surf City, NJ) June 19, 2002

A Welcome Reprieve. South Jersey Magazine, Winter 2004.

STATEMENT  

Work in stone sculpture is a fine form of meditation.  As such my work has had an inward focus. I attempt to incorporate the styles of past masters as a means to learn both technique and the aesthetics of sculptural art.  From there, the work dictates its own character.  I tend to work from nature finding inspiration in animal and human forms.  The work I do is a continuing apprenticeship to the long tradition of stone sculpture.