Eleanor Seeley is a native of Wisconsin and received her Master's degree in Art Education at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee in 1975. It was during her graduate studies when Eleanor initiated her three-dimensional expression in sculpture, even in her paintings. Eleanor was involved in secondary art education in Wisconsin for 15 years before moving to the West Coast.
Eleanor
began working in the fall of 2001, creating the current series of sculptures
called, “Women.” Her purpose was to create one sculpture a month for a period of
one year.
Once the twelve sculptures were established in this time frame, she went back and began the process of redefining each sculpture, preparing it for casting into bronze at the foundry.
Eleanor Seeley has created a new
bronze series titled "Women". There are twelve in the series, plus a grouping of
torsos.
The "Women" are dancing, joyous, robust, and sensual. Eleanor's ability to
sculpt the feminine aspect, is inherent in the soft round forms of her
sculptures, while the gestures suggest an openness to the moment at hand.
The "Women" are sculpted somewhere between realistic, and stylistic, not being
representations of actual models, but rather a compilation of many "Women". They
are reminiscent of the women of the Renaissance with the added embrace of
ecstatic emotion.
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12/05/2006