Erik Durant Works

Medium: 
Bronze Sculpture

Subjects: 
Traditional Figures

Style: 
Contemporary Figuration
 

Inspirations: 
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, as well as many of the new figurative artists working today

Education: 
BA Southern Connecticut State University, MFA UMass Dartmouth 

Biography: 

Durant’s personal work is a quest to understand the human condition. As a sculptor, his main interests lie in gesture, movement, and pose. His works are at times illustrative, but always realistic, exploring historical, and contemporary narratives - both known, and unknown.

While many of the characters that he chooses to sculpt seem to be rooted in the past, they are his own imaginings of things not fully understood. Issues surrounding beauty, the body, and identity, give rise to a version of contemporary mythology that is new, yet seemingly familiar.