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Title:  "Girl with Dog"
Artist:  David Spence
#K:  43
Price:  $5,200

David Spence is a novel experience. His life clearly does not reflect the contemporary cliche of an artistic career. The marked sophistication of his concepts and techniques are products of his extensive foreign travel, interest in the classics, mythology and an insatiable quest for the purest form of artistic expression.

A study of Spence reads like on a Vasari's portraits. Beginning to actively pursue art at age sixteen, he had achieved enough competence by his military time that a Coast Guard Admiral arranged for him to have a studio. He went to New York in 1967, where he immersed himself in the world of art, studying and enjoying the proximity of his peers. He states that this environment provided his best education.

His range of media diversified. He did watercolors and drawings, wood carving, stone and bronze statuary. Be the 1980's he had headquartered in Mexico, following a sojourn on Nantucket, then on to North Carolina, Houston and Tuscany, Italy.

Convinced that bronze was his medium, Spence became involved in the foundry process to ensure more personal control of his art. While living in Mexico, he opened a foundry and developed a line of bronze furniture. Returning to the U.S. in 1993, he opened Dallas Fine Arts Foundry.

The sources of Spence's inspiration are superficially evident in works by Rodin, Giacommetti, Degas and Henry Moore. Art Deco and Oriental influences are apparent. When you touch a piece, there is wonderment that, is not a derivative at all; for Spence's passionate use of form, line movement, seduces you. It is fusion.

David Spence has rightfully earned the position of being Dallas' foremost bronze Sculptor.

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