Thomas Lollar

American; Male; born 1951

From the artist’s website: “Thomas W. Lollar is an internationally renowned sculptor and professor of fine arts whose works are represented in a number of public, corporate, and private collections. Lollar grew up in Detroit [and Kalamazoo] and was educated at Western Michigan University, where he earned his bachelors and masters degrees in sculpture, ceramics, and art history. Lollar has taught ceramics and sculpture since 1975 at such prestigious New York institutions as Parsons The New School for Design. He is currently on the faculty of Teachers College – Columbia University. Lollar has received several top-tier honors in his field, including the post of visiting scholar at the American Academy in Rome, a fellowship at the Salzburg Seminar, a fellowship at Jugendstil Design in Austria, and the prestigious Waldo-Sangren Award for Contemporary Ceramics in England”

“Lollar is a master sculptor who creates works in ceramic, marble, and metal and reimagines architectural, geographical, and historical narratives. His broad range of subjects are rendered in both frontal bas-relief and aerial views. The unique surface colors with which the works are finished are the result of a distinctive combination of media that arises from applying copper, bronze, and platinum metallic paints and glazes.”