Abstract Art: Sculptures: Bronze, Terra Cotta and Mixed Media - Charcoal Drawings 

 

 

 

He was a prominent SCULPTOR and an ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONIST, although he walked his own line between representation and abstraction his figures have muscular form; and simultaneously have serenity and a tension.

Calvin was a sculptor of enormous range and integrity! He combined both tools and hand to develop his geometric element of distortion from life-like to emotion!

Calvin's TERRA COTTA SCULPTURES. Calvin's terra cotta works were rolled thin on cloth and virtually tossed by him. His sculptures were created in part by using tools to shape without the normal finger manipulation, while other areas of the same piece were sculpture by hand to give distortions to emotion!   In 1980 he began to use clay - the soft clay yields to the most tender as well as the stongest sculpturing.

Calvin embraced the figurative tradition but with a distinctly abstract attitude using geometric elements!

Calvin's BRONZE SCULPTURES embrace a figurative tradition but with a distinctly abstract attitude. He paid homage to the unfinished works of Michelangelo and adds to this a modernist geometric element to his abstract expressionism! His purposeful distortions is to give the sculpture a sense of emotions!

Calvin's CHARCOAL DRAWINGS on canson paper. He would start with large smudges and let them slowly evolve! His abstract charcoal drawings gave curiously passion of apparitional images. His technique is handled in a mastermind manner of shading life-like in some passages and purposeful distortions to suggest emotion!

Calvin's MIXED MEDIUM is made of resin with gesso, and most are outlined using graphite pencil. While using the figurative tradition he would purposefully use geometric elements and distort the image using his abstract talents to suggest emotion!

Calvin's FIBERGLASS SCULPTURES are distorted to create visual concave and convex formations interrelate in a total three-dimensional work of both subtlety and power!