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| Stephen Kishel |
thesculptor@stephenkishel.com (843)757-8450 |
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Title: First Impression Description: Description: We are so much more than meets the eye, so why are we so quick to judge another. If only we could wait until we know a person before we passed judgement and closed up our mind. Then and only then would know what we don't know, and perhaps see more, learn more and as a result be more. Dimensions: 6'x12"x18" Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 206 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Family First Description: This is a scale model of a much larger sculpture. I am glad to work with clients to define their vision into a work of art that is both unique and representive of there business. This model was created for an insurance company that puts family first. Titled: Secure Together The scale model was done from a CAD model designed by sculptor, Stephen Kishel and presented to the client for final approval. After approval it is scaled up with no surprises, and the public scale sculpture meets everyone exspections, and hopefully even exceeds them! Dimensions: 7"x7" x 18" Medium: Stainless Date Created: 2010 Location: California |
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Title: Red Hot Twittering Machine Description: Its not a circle or a square, it is somewhere inbetween. It is what it is, but thats not all it is. Everyone of us can see something that others can't. It may not be your cup of tea but let it be what it will be. The important thing is that it sells and travels around the world. That is what Picasso said to a your emerging artist. He also said don't charge too much for your work! So it sells! Dimensions: 15"x 25"x 29" Medium: abstract metal sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: Amelia Island Florida |
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Title: Wine Me Up Description: Abstract Garden Sculpture with a whimsical machine look. Dimensions: 10" x 11" x 32" Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 2010 Location: Baltimore, MD |
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Title: Early Bloomer Description: I guess when a artist gets tired of long winter, he can imagine spring and then create something that looks like spring. I must admit I had a bad case of cabin fever this winter! Dimensions: 14" x 15" x 40" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: Artworks Gallery in Beaufort |
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Title: Seven Rings Description: If you believe that our actions go full circle than your going to appreciate this abstract. Albert Einsein once said, ..Imagination is more important than knowledge, Knowledge is limited, Imagination encircles the world... Dimensions: 12" x 13" x 23" Medium: Stainless Steel Table Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: Traveling |
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Title: Luminous Description: Luminous was constructed one shape at a time without a sketch or a road map. When one starts this way we are relying on a feeling or a mood to stick with the artist until the concept or conception materializes. Knowing when to stop comes with experience, and is equally as important as knowing when to start. Dimensions: 34"x40" x 80" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Stuffed Flounder Description: The fish is full, or should I say stuffed. I have been expressing my concern about all the fish in the Gulf by making sculptures of fish for several weeks now. I can think of little else, however, I do know that the earth was made for a good purpose and nothing, will change that. In time the earth will be restored, and the fish will return. In the meantime drive less, walk more, or better yet buy a bike. Recycled materials were used for 90 percent of my fish sculptures and no liquid paints were used. Dimensions: 2" x 12" x 29" Medium: Mig Welded recycled aluminum w/PC finish Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: Against the Current Description: Going with the flow got the world into a big mess. It takes work to create value, it takes sweat to feel accomplishment, and it is never easy, however it is always worth it! Yes! Going Green is worth the extra effort too! Dimensions: 6" x 19" x 44" Medium: Recycled Aluminum Date Created: 2010 Location: Baltimore, MD - private collection |
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Title: Abstract Bicycle Art Description: Bicycles have stayed pretty much the same for the nearly 100 years now, however the time has come to give our environment a break. If we knew 100 years ago, what dependance on oil would lead to, we would not let our beautiful planet suffer the automobile age. Let us face facts, and count the costs, and do something constructive. Bicycles benefit us by providing exercise, time to reflect and meditate, and save money. So lets bring bike design into the 21st century and make the bicycle cool, fast, and better than ever. Dimensions: 21" x 33" x 48" Medium: Aluminum with Copper Vien Powder Coat Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: Blue Fish Description: I started making fish shortly after the Horizon accident. In the weeks since the oil spill began information has come to light about the oil industry, that has caused many people to change their driving habits and their carbon footprints. We have also started asking serious questions about our way of life and our planet. Has the demand for Oil become so great that we are willing to risk our environment to have more? What of the other 4800 deep water oil wells, are they accidents waiting to happen? I hope not! I want Blue Fish, and every other color fish to win. Further more I want this earth to be covered with Blue sky, green trees, and clean waters. This fish is another symbol of support for a greener planet. It is made from scrap aluminum and powder coated with VOC free paint. Reduce, ReUse, and Recycle Please! Dimensions: 21" x 39" x 5" Medium: Wall Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: March On Description: If only life was like basketball, then we would get a free throw every time someone treated us unfairly. Life is not fair! When we keep looking up, it gets better. One or Two points at a time. This basketball sculpture makes a very modern looking trophy, or it could make an awesome monumental sculpture for a public space. If interested contact me and we will work out the details. Dimensions: 6" x 6" x 23" Medium: Two Tone Powder Coat over Aluminum Date Created: 2010 Location: Maryland |
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Title: Aspiration Description: Sometimes when we flip a coin it lands on its edge. An aspiration is not just a dream, it is not just a desire, it is knowing that someday your world will become everything you believed it could. So never aim low, and never give up. Dimensions: 11" x 14" x 30" Medium: Abstract Stainless Table Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: Riding the Waves Description: This Outdoor sculpture has a tropical blue water theme. While it is part abstract and part figurative, it really is just a product of visual imagination. Dimensions: 24" x 28" x 54" Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 2010 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Function Follows Fossil Description: How does one begin to create a new one-of-a-kind work of art? Following a theme is a great way to get started on a new sculptural project. It can be challenging, however you never know what you can accomplish until you are challenged. Dimensions: 19" x 32" x 52" Medium: Tig welded Aluminum Date Created: 2010 Location: Charleston |
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Title: Welcome to My Whirld Description: Tired of the same old same old, then, try sculpting, it will keep you reeling, revolving, and re-inventing. My life is like a whirlwind that never rests, and If I have not started something new in a day or two, I am very restless. The say if you want something done, give it to a busy person! Do you need a site specific sculptural creation? If so let me know! Dimensions: 3' x 4' x 7' 3" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: Birds in Sunset Description: These Birds are just enjoying each others company in the sunset. Dimensions: 30" x 33" x 56" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture 1/4" Plate Date Created: 2010 Location: SC |
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Title: Bird in Hand Description: A bird in hand is better than two in the bush, unless your the bird who is trying to hide. Making art is better than selling art, but selling one can be better than making two. I really wish it was not true, but reality is what it is. This sculpture will rust, but even if it does, it will still be there 20 years from now, because it is made out of very thick steel. Dimensions: 25"x45"x72" Medium: Steel plate - 1/2 inch thick Date Created: 2009 Location: South Carolina |
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Title: She Loves Me! Description: She Loves Me, she loves me not, she loves me! Doubt your doubts, not your beliefs. Dimensions: 8"x6"x17" Medium: Stainless Steel - Tig Welded Date Created: 2009 Location: Maye River Gallery - Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Thru a Childs Eyes Description: This abstract wall sculpture is just a group of playful images that are part Dr. Susse and part zoo and all much more to a good vivid imagination. Dimensions: 20" x 52" x 2" Medium: Welded Aluminum w/PC Date Created: 2009 Location: Bluffton,SC |
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Title: A Flower and a Weed Description: A flower and a weed can bloom together and live together, until one gets cut or the other gets uprooted. Time and unforseen occurances befall us all. Dimensions: 7"x9"x31" Medium: Stainless Steel Date Created: 2009 Location: Maye River Gallery Bluffton |
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Title: Tip Toe Tulip Description: Garden Sculptures come in all shapes and sizes, colors too. Playful and Whimsical, bold and beautiful, cheerful and happly just to name a few. This figurative Garden sculpture, will be inviting the birds and the butterflies to your garden someday, perhaps? Unless, it is gone before you decide; should a bought it when ya saw it! Dimensions: 7"x14"x45" Medium: Powder coated Aluminum on Stainless Steel Date Created: 2009 Location: Tybee Island, Georgia |
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Title: Growing Art Description: Growing art is my passion, like making fine wine, or making good use of time. Show how much you love doing what you do and world will beat a path to you. This may still be true, give it a try, its up to you! Smile more, love more, give more, savor more! Dimensions: 6"x8"x 32" Medium: Aluminum on Cast Iron Date Created: 2009 Location: Walterboro SC Artisans Center |
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Title: Springs First Flower Description: I loved being surprised by Springs first Flowers especially when they show up where I am not exspecting them. These pieces of metal are kind-a-like that, they have been laying around my artstudio for several months and they all got selected by me to make this sculpture and they worked so well together I don't think I could have done as well with a blueprint. Dimensions: 6"x6"x17" Medium: 3/16" thick Aluminum Date Created: 2009 Location: SC |
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Title: Peeking Description: This frog is peeking up at the egret peeping down. It will all be over in the blink of the eye, or will it! We can hope not, for the tree frogs sake. Dimensions: 8"x7"x21" Medium: Aluminum on Cast Iron Base Date Created: 2009 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Frog on a Leaf Description: This frog would jump if its feet were not welded to the leaf. Enjoy the moment, it will past all too soon! Dimensions: 6"x7"x14" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2009 Location: Maye River Gallery |
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Title: Garden Bloom Description: This flower is made for all seasons. You can add a splash of color year round with one like it made just for you. Commissions can be any color size and shape. How large is your garden? How colorful do you want to make it? Dimensions: 10"x14"x45" Medium: Tig Welded Aluminum Date Created: 2009 Location: Bluffton South Carolina |
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Title: Cycle Commute Description: Zero Emissions, Carbon Neutral, no carbon foot print, no petrol required, and great exercise. What more could we want, and why doesn't everyone want one. Dimensions: 47" x 30" x 5" Medium: Aluminum with Copper PC Date Created: 2009 Location: Charlotte, NC |
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Title: Worlds Apart Description: Our earth has a delicate balance that perpetuates life and provides mutual benefit for all living things. Today this balance is being torn apart at the seams or dare I say at the fabric of life itself. While many try to live healthy and promote a smaller carbon foot print, our lifestyle says something quite different. Ask yourself this question please. If everyone on the planet lived just like me, would anything be left over for the generation soon to be? Dimensions: 9”x17”x21” Medium: Stainless with sparkle Powder Coat Date Created: 2009 Location: SC |
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Title: Defying Gravity 2 Dimensions: 6'x7'x7' Medium: 1/4" thick Aluminum with Copper Powder Coat Date Created: 2009 Location: Canada |
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Title: Solar Flare Description: Reflections of light waves on a single flame of pure solar energy carry us light years forward. Then the light of that future eclipses the present into ages of darkness. Dimensions: 6"x8"x20" Medium: Polished Stainless Steel Date Created: 2009 Location: SC |
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Title: Peeking Bird & Frog Description: Some sculpture themes are worthy subjects for sculpting again and again. Practice makes (near) perfect! Some artist refuse to make the same sculpture twice, and at one time I think I felt this way too. Now, I see that it is simply an opportunity for me to prove that I am progressing as a sculptor and if someone wants to pay me to progress in craft then I feel honored, and will gladly do so. Dimensions: 21" x 12" x 8" Medium: .25" thick Aluminum Date Created: 2009 Location: South Carolina |
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Title: Star Seeds Description: This Absteract Sculpture is like monumental seed pods sown across light years of space. Dimensions: 12" x 10" x 29" Medium: Steel with Powder coat finish Date Created: 2009 Location: SC |
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Title: Coral Aluminum Description: This Organic abstract Sculpture has the feel of live coral but is made from .190 inch thick sheet aluminum. It is also another good example of a site specific sculpture. Do you have a wall that needs something special. Why not consider a commissioned sculptural creation. Dimensions: 45 x 74 Medium: Abstract Metal Date Created: 2009 Location: sc |
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Title: Late Bloomer Description: Made entirely from non-ferrous metals so it will weather well and develope a natural patina. Metals include, Copper, Stainless Steel,Brass and silver. The first time my client saw her commission she emailed: It is STUPENDOUS! I cannot wait to pick it up. The title is good. The sculpture looks quite wonderful! I love the mixed metals, the colors, and the contemporary shape of the base. The doorknobs are a 'kick.' It is a great size, and I am looking forward to its patina. It is good to know that it will not rust, like me. Thanks, Jane Dimensions: 15"x15" x59" Medium: Copper Still Life Sculpture Date Created: 2009 Location: WV |
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Title: Family Time Gathering Description: Figurative Minimalism with Mirror Finish Super 8 Polish Stainless Steel Type 316L. These four people represent a family going shopping together at the Bravern in Bellevue, Washington. The bright reflective surfaces make this a very interactive public sculpture. Day or Night it is a non-stop play on light. Dimensions: 24"x30" x 126" Medium: 3D sculptures group of four Date Created: 2009 Location: Bellevue Washington |
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Title: 359 Bargin Sculpture Description: Sculptors should never make apologies for the price they put on their works (395.00, 995.00, and 2995.00)! These are all apology prices for 400, 1000 & 3000. We not only create sculpture, but we also create communities, culture, and conversation. It is all created at a price to our health, eye sight, and often with blood sweat, and tears. Hold your head up, as well as your price. Dimensions: 11"x9"x25" Medium: Blue PC Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: South Carolina |
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Title: Spontinaeity Description: This abstract sculpture is intended to portray the freedom an artist would have in a world without gravity. We could paint a 3D image in the air; spontaneity arises from my imagination with an effortless spontaneous expression. While metal working is anything but effortless, I have become one with my material, and worked with the material to create a sculpture that gives the viewer an airy weightless feeling. Dimensions: 28" x 33" x 80" Medium: Powder coated Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: SC |
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Title: Bloom of Youth Description: If ever I perfect in metal the beauty displayed in a flower I will have mastered the art of sculpting metal. It is more than the form, colors, scent, and movement that makes a flower a flower, it is a gift, or perhaps the breath of life that makes it so difficult a thing to copy. Dimensions: 34"x8"x6" Medium: Stainless Steel Date Created: 2008 Location: Sun City Hilton Head |
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Title: Virtual Falling Water Description: Mix Miro, Calder, and Kishel. Dimensions: 22x31x79 Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: Coral Gables Florida |
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Title: Wind Swept Description: Sometimes the scale of a sculpture transports it from the natural world to a world of abstract imagery. The Maui blue color gives it a coastal feel and the long sweeps of metal impart the presents of the wind and waves. I love living near the Atlantic Ocean in South Carolina with its seemingly endless views of pristine beauty of unspoiled marshland. I hope in time to capture even more of the essence of this beautiful state. Dimensions: 48"x10"x112" Medium: Powder Coated Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: SC |
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Title: Geometric2 Description: Stainless beads lace the edge of this abstract sculpture, like dew drops on a plant in the morning sun. This sculpture has a reddish colored glow over an ion tapestry of imagery. Dimensions: 6x8x29 Medium: Stainless Steel Date Created: 2008 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Blue (Green) Crab Description: Recycled materials were used for every part of this crab sculpture. The Crabs Shell and Claws were made from a steel Direct TV Dish. The legs were made for stainless industrial scrap metal. Dimensions: 40" x 40" x12" Medium: Welded Metal Sculpture Date Created: 2008 Location: Blue Crab Restaurant -Beaufort, SC |
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Title: Photosynthesis Splash Description: Tracking the sun morning to night this sculpture twists, curls and flows with the light, to get the most out of each day. Should we, do we, can we, be more? Dimensions: 5'3"x43"x32" Medium: Powder coated Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: Bluffton, SC |
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Title: Daydreaming Description: Where are your thoughts taking you? If your not where you want to be, perhaps your thoughts are not as real as they should be. Perhaps some other thoughts are getting in the way of your goal. Saying yes to the wrong thoughts, can prevent you saying yes to the right ones. Dream big dreams. Dimensions: 24"x12"x14" Medium: Powder Coated Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: Bluffton South Carolina |
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Title: Abstract Re-Leaf Description: Relief should not be abstract, it should be real. My new sculpture is a leaf shaped abstract, with a calming feeling. The leaves have gently settled down together, giving this heavy gauge aluminum a light soft pleasing feel. Dimensions: 28"x12"x13" Medium: Aluminum with Powdercoat Date Created: 2008 Location: Columbus, Ohio |
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Title: The Greeter Description: Hello my friends and welcome to my home. We love it when people visit, so why not widen out and enjoy company more often? This abstract sculpture welcomes visitors, how about you! This abstract metal sculpture is made from waterjet cut sheets of 1/8" thick aluminum and finish is a baked on UV stable powder coat. This sculpture will weather the elements virtually anywhere, so enjoy it where you think it looks best Dimensions: 18x35x87 Medium: Abstract Metal Sculpture Date Created: 2008 Location: Walter Greer Gallery Hilton Head |
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Title: Treasures of the Sea Description: Fish, sea turtles, and plants and artifacts, mixed together in an abstract sculpture of imagination. Dimensions: 10"x16"x37" Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: Hilton Head Art Show |
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Title: Sea Life Description: Seeds of life floating together, mixing and blending, sheltering and defending. If only we all could be part of the solution, we would not have a problem with global pollution. Dimensions: 23"x30"x103 Medium: Fabricated Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2008 Location: Hilton Head Island |
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Title: Reflections of Character Description: This Vertically Oriented Sculpture reflects the Character that a mentor builds in his student. Why not look into a mirror and see, the person you could be, rather than a view of what will soon be, just a moment in your history. Most people live, day to day, and if they become something, they attributed it to being in the right place at the right time, or one in a million. That is not the way for you or me, we know in our hearts that something better will be, if we do not sit on our laurels and wait to be. Our odds of winning are much greater indeed, than one in a million souls that proceed. Because we push forward the boundaries, that hold others back, we take leaps of faith and never shrink back. We study, and work, and create prolifically, and plan ahead our days indefinitely, and many a sleepless nights we spend in our bed, thinking and figuring how to do, what others only dread. Each day we wake, glad to be alive, we say to ourselves with one degree of pride: What do I get,-- to do,-- today! Knowing there is much to be done, loving your work makes it almost fun, but as the sunsets you may look back and sigh! But, then a smiles arises, with a knowing, Iiiiiii! Because, you understand, the things yet undone are minor in comparison to all you have won! This day is accomplished and tomorrow holds hope, soon you will sleep, but, the smile will stay, because you have done well, -- done well -- with this beautiful day! Stephen Kishel ©2008 Dimensions: 18"x20"x44" Medium: Mirror Image Stainless & Powdercoated Aluminum Date Created: 2008 Location: Florida State University |
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Title: Power of the Human Spirit Description: This garden sculpture was just an inspiration a long long time ago, as it developed in my minds eye it also gave birth to many simular human forms on a much smaller scale, yet the spirit of this is full realized when it is done human scale. This is one of only two, its cousin is in Chicago. Where this one travels to I do not know, I just know its heart is a close to feelings we have when we free empowered. Hold on to the feeling, and recall it to your minds eye often. Dimensions: 13"x13"x84" Medium: 1/4 inch aluminum with flameing Gold Powdercoat Date Created: 2008 Location: SC |
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Title: Secure Together Description: Minimalist Figurative Abstract Sculpture Dimensions: 54"x54"x104" Medium: Tig welded Mirror finish Stainless Steel Date Created: 2007 Location: Rancho Cucamonga (LA), California |
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Title: Summer Blooms Description: A pair of flowers spring up and reach for the sun and are gently pushed by the wind. We can only imagine a more perfect expression of beauty. Dimensions: 45"x20"x80" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: Knoxville TN Sculpture Park |
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Title: Subtlety Description: Subtlety is in the art and design world, and only the subconscious picks it up at a glance Let your conscious mind enjoy the subtle details by taking the time to really look at art. Then consider this thought. Style comes in many shapes, color, texture & patterns but character is more subtle than style, and is timeless. While it is nice to be in stlye, it is better to be in character. $2,960.00 19"x16"x75" Powder coated Aluminum Dimensions: 19"x16"x75" Medium: Powder coated aluminum Date Created: 2007 Location: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina Sept.25th -Oct. 12 |
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Title: Windward Description: The wind stirs our world and drives the sleeping seeds of life to fertile soil. In time it has carried trees, plants, flowers and weeds to the far reaches of the earth. Perhaps we too will travel on the wind; we can sail thru the water on the wind now. We can ride on the wind in a hot air balloon or a blimp; we can ride a thermal up and then glide on the wind in a glider if we are daring enough. Someday something even safer than cars, planes and boats will be invented, that is powered only by the wind. Dimensions: 11”x15”x26” Medium: Bronze Powder coated Aluminum Date Created: 2007 Location: Artworks Muncie, IN |
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Title: Flying Fish Description: The fish are swimming in circles in an aqua world. Dimensions: 24"x16"x72" Medium: Abstract Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: Moss Creek South Carolina |
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Title: Virtual Fountain Description: This abstract sculpture is like a gisor of water falling back on itself and renewing the everlasting energy that created it. Change with out change, yet a view that never tires. Dimensions: 46"x29"x92" Medium: Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: Fernanda Beach, Florida |
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Title: Inspiration Description: This is a scale model for a much larger sculpture, it is made out of quarter inch thick aluminum. This figurative aluminum sculpture depicts the fluid form of a skilled acrobat. Dimensions: 12"x16"x31" tall Medium: Welded Aluminum Date Created: 2007 Location: Chicago |
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Title: Sea of the Winds Description: The invisible wind is full of abstract imagery. Perhaps the wind only seems abstract to us, because we can not see it. We feel it, run with it, fear it and even play with it. Dimensions: Medium: Bronze Powder Coated Aluminum Date Created: 2007 Location: Windward Shopping Center Alpharetta Georgia |
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Title: Deep Blue Sea Description: Illusionism sculpture of a imaginary under sea vision of diverse life forms. Dimensions: 32"x72"x6" Medium: Abstract Wall Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: The Gallery of Beaufort South Carolina |
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Title: Times Flying Description: Time is flying, or is it standing still? Perhaps our lives are what is flying by and time is waiting for us to move by. When I was a child 5 minutes lasted for atleast an hour, now and hour goes by in what seems like 5 minutes. Let's not waste any of this stuff called time, because before we know it, our time will fly by. Dimensions: 29"x65"x7" Medium: Abstract Wall Scupture Date Created: 2007 Location: SC |
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Title: Sculptor Description: Seeds sprout into reeds of yellow gold stalks that strech up toward the sky to bask in the light of life, the sun Dimensions: 17"x11"x74" Medium: Powder Coated Aluminum Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: Beaufort SC - The Gallery on Bay Street |
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Title: Bird waiting to feed Description: Stainless on Steel with copper accents Dimensions: 28"x12"x40" Medium: Arc Welded Metal Sculpture Date Created: 2007 Location: South Carolina |
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Title: Sea of the Winds Sculpture Description: This public space sculpture is made of 1/4" thick Aluminum with a Bronze Powder Coat and a fiberglass sculpture base. It symbolizes the wind. The wind we all love, a soft gentle breeze on a warm day. It can be viewed at the Windward Shopping Center in Alphereta, Georgia. Please email me a better photo of this abstract sculpture next time you visit the area. Dimensions: 36"x40"x118" Medium: Bronze Powder Coat over Aluminum Date Created: 2007 Location: Georgia |
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Title: Everything Description: Getting everything done was my horizon. The closer I worked toward it the further it was away form me. I created this sculpture so I could finally get everything done. Now, you too have the opportunity of a life-time, you too can have everything. Call for the price! Dimensions: 31"x26"x5" Medium: Steel and copper Date Created: 2007 Location: Artist Collection |
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Title: Key West Description: Blue-Green Water rippling across the horizon, under a cloudless sky makes you wonder why, why do we work everyday in a place we do not want to stay. Why must we work in a concrete box that blocks me from you and cast dark shadows on our earths natural view? Life was designed to be refreshingly new, so make plans now to enjoy something new. Dimensions: 80"x28" Medium: Aluminum Wall Sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: Hilton Head Island |
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Title: Sculptor Description: Minimalist abstract aluminum wall sculpture with powdercoat finish. Dimensions: 28"x60"x4" Medium: Wall sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: USC Beaufort |
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Title: Daybreak Sailing Description: Pushing the envelope of minimalistic sculpture Dimensions: 50"x72" Medium: Aluminum Date Created: 2006 Location: My Art Studio |
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Title: 3D2 Description: Like shooting stars across a star filled sky, this sculpt reaches upward and out. We too must never stop reaching, streching our beings potential. We should not be tomorrow what we were yesterday, we should be better. Dimensions: 9' x 3'x3' Medium: Steel Date Created: 2006 Location: The Gallery Beaufort |
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Title: Having Fun Description: Minimalist yet abstract and open to interpretation. Dimensions: 63"x23"x7" Medium: Aluminum Wall Sculpting Date Created: 2006 Location: Eaton Indiana |
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Title: Jewel of the Marsh Description: Our marshlands are the nursery of the sea, and the sea is the cradle of life for our planet. We must protect the wetlands from ourselves they are a jewel to look at but, as our homes and forms of recreation overlap this delicate jewel it will be trampled and then the global dominos will fall. Dimensions: 58"x20"x12" Medium: Steel Abstract Date Created: 2006 Location: Ruth's Chris Steakhouse West Palm Beach Florida |
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Title: The journey is the destination 2 Description: Embrace the wind, and feel the power, enjoy the journey and be in the present. It is not about traveling from A to Z, it is simply to be on the wings of the wind and in the waves of the sea. $1500 Dimensions: 74"x51"x33" Medium: Aluminum w/3 step powdercoat Date Created: 2006 Location: The South Carolina Artisan Center Walterboro SC |
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Title: Tropical Wave Description: The relentless crash of waves. Dimensions: 84"long x 24"tall x 5" deep Medium: Abstract minimalist sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: Waltersboro, SC |
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Title: Tango Dancers Description: Music fills the room with energy, and dancing makes us feel young. This sculpture conveys the beat and rhythm of the Latin tango dance; it is a mix of the traditional and surreal modernism. Dimensions: 55"x76"x16" Medium: Waterjet cut & Tig welded Aluminum Date Created: 2006 Location: Coconut Grove, FL |
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Title: Lost in Thought Description: Our deepest thought happens when we are not trying to solve anything at all. Like when we take a refreshing walk by the river, and we just let our mind settle down, unwind and reflect. Our mind will roll the thoughts over and over in our mind until the solutions are as clear as the day we are enjoying. Dimensions: 87"x21"x21" Medium: Aluminum Abstract Sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: Arts Center of Coastal Carolina |
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Title: Last Ring of Truth Description: We tend not to believe that there is an absolute truth anymore. However skepticism can not be excused forever. So why wait for the last ring. When you see the truth, believe it, and if you must doubt, doubt your doubts. This Granny Smith Green sculpture moves effortlessly with the slightest touch. Many kinetic sculptures rely on complex mechanical elements, this sculpture awaits your touch, the wind, the rain or a small animal or bird to wind up its spring and recoil with a rhythm unique to the last ring of truth. Dimensions: 52"x32"x29" Medium: Stainless Non-Representational Sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: The Gallery of Beaufort |
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Title: Wine Light Description: Steel Abstract Sculpture Symbolic of the Journey of the Grape to the mind. Dimensions: 112"x54"x42" Medium: Abstract Sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: Beaufort South Carolina The Gallery |
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Title: Heaven Knows Description: Shadows of light are captured in this sculpture. If it is The Birds of Heaven, then they glide as effortlessly as a leaf falling gently to the earth. Most of us long to climb nearly as much as we would love to fly, this abstract sculpture has reached out for both longings of the human spirit. Dimensions: 10"x12"x30" Medium: Stainless Steel Abstract Date Created: 2006 Location: Carmel Indiana |
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Title: Pet Peeve Description: Pet Peeve is a symbolic abstract sculpture depicting the struggle between, what we were and what we will be. How can we break the chain that is holding us to our past and become what we know we will. For the artist, the past is littered with criticism and unappreciated works, however the future can be a paradise of gratifying accomplishment and personal satisfaction. We must choose now in the present, this is done by taking steps into a primitive uncharted future, see what you want in your minds eye, hold that vision in sharp focus, and ask how, how you can step toward it. Everything else we walk toward or spend time doing robs us of potential and gets swallowed up by a deteriorating past. Don’t let your days get cast into the symbolic sea of; if only, should oves, could oves, someday, and when I get this or that I’ll do so and so. The desire to succeed means nothing without the will to prepare! With this in mind, everything is possible. Dimensions: 16"x20"x36" Medium: Teal powder coat over Steel Date Created: 2006 Location: The Gallery |
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Title: Sea of the Wind Description: Description: How can you describe the wind with out referencing to the flowing, dancing plants on the ground? This abstract sculpture is not totally abstract; it is more of an exaggeration of reality. Perhaps I am on to something new, "Exaggerationism" (c)2006 Dimensions: 20"x25"x98" Medium: Tig welded Aluminum w/powder coat Date Created: 2006 Location: Savannah, GA |
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Title: The Artist Description: Each stroke of his brush is preceded by a thoughtful pause, as the artist thinks about the feeling he wants to impart onto the canvas. Sometimes the thoughts flow like the wind at other times the thoughts must be pulled up like water from a deep well. The paint and the canvas have no life within themselves only the artist can breathe life’s emotion into them. Dimensions: 72"x36"x84" Medium: Metal sculpture Date Created: 2006 Location: Palisades Mall Nauack, NY |
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Title: Sunbeams Description: Yellow arcs of sun beams send their rays to earth, around and through the clouds. Note: This sculpture will be on display at Crown Hill in Indianapolis until the end of August 2006. It was juried into a sculpture park. If you can't wait til then contact me. I will make you a sculpture with the same feel. Dimensions: 38"x25"x156" Medium: Powder coated steel Date Created: 2005 Location: Muncie Indiana |
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Title: The Focus and the Distraction Description: We all have goals and our ability to achieve them is based on our self discipline to keep our focus on the goal. Dimensions: 44"x57"x4" Medium: Abstract Wall Sculpture Date Created: 2005 Location: IAGO Gallery Blowing Rock NC |
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Title: The Guitarman Description: It’s kinetic, with a little help from its friends or the wind the Guitar man will rock back and forth. This abstract guy blast his music visually with the bold use of smooth symmetry and the angular legs of foot taping rhythm and even his pick hand oscillates to the music. Dimensions: 36"x40"x84" Medium: Stainless Sculpture Date Created: 2005 Location: South Carolina Artisans Center |
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Title: All You Need is LOVE Description: Sculpture can arrest movement, capture feelings, and even make a political statement. It can warm your heart or give you a chill. This sculpture is embracing a decade. In the sixties, it was a time of growing awareness of self and a time of questioning beliefs, purpose, and goals. A time of hope for a better world, for many it started with the Beatles and ended with Woodstock. It was not all strawberry fields and skies of diamonds; however the feeling of hope was and still is worth embracing, even today. This abstract stainless sculpture was commissioned by a couple in Savannah Georgia for their dream home. Dimensions: 35"x36"x59" Medium: Stainless Steel Date Created: 2005 Location: Savannah GA |
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Title: Moon Shadow Description: Moon light passing thru the trees on to and enchanted forest floor, glittering like eye-candy. Dimensions: 37"x15"x12" Medium: Abstract Stainless Steel Sculpture Date Created: 2004 Location: Beaufort, SC |
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Title: Bluffton Breeze Description: Live Oak Trees with flowing spanish moss inspired this abstract sculpture. Dimensions: 49”x27”x25” Medium: 316 Stainless Steel Abstract Sculpture Date Created: 2004 Location: Converse College Spartanburg, SC |
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Title: The Well of Creativity Description: The Song of the wind, the birth of a child, the flight of the hawk, and the marshland by the sea, inspire me. The thoughts are created, and the hands follow thru, then the eye of the beholder makes it come true. University of Phoenix writes; Hi Stephen, my name is Brandi Garcia. I am working on a team project for a college course. We had to pick a sculpture for a company to buy. One that is a modern and represents diversity in the workplace. Can you give me a little more insight on “The Well of Creativity?” This is the piece we have chosen and would help me give a little more to our paper. Thank you, Brandi Garcia. reply from sk; Dear Brandi, Thanks for choosing one of my sculptures. Sometimes I think creativity is like a well that you prime. I love diversity, and I find myself working on three or four different sculpture every week. One as large as the Well of Creativity took me about 6 or 7 weeks however I frequently turned my attention to another work in progress, for a change of pace and to allow my ideas for the Well to formulate. The nice thing about welded sculpture is you can add and subtract as needed. It is painted with Rainbow extreme paint and it changes to seven colors as you walk around it. Dimensions: 21"x24"x94" Medium: Steel and Copper Sculpture Date Created: 2003 Location: Fripp Island, SC |
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Title: Galvanized Description: This sculpture could have been named Horse Power because the components were disgarded automotive parts found at a metal scrap yard. However it is not simply found art, it is more like recycled art, by reusing existing materials, I haved saved energy and created beauty. This sculpture has been updated with a copper powder coat. The powder coat finish is a much more friendly to the environment, while not totally green, it does not require solvents to cure, it goes on as dust and melts to and bonds to the sculpture in my oven at 450 degrees. Dimensions: 16"x30"x22" Medium: Powder Coated Steel on Solid Oak Base Date Created: 2002 Location: The Gallery of Beaufort South Carolina |
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| Artist's Bio |
Stephen L. Kishel was born in Muncie, Indiana. His parents were teachers, with long summer breaks, and so could indulge a taste for roughing it nearly every summer on a remote island in Western Ontario. The contrast between a mid-western university city and a log cabin without electricity was a rich one. His father, a high-school art teacher, taught him to appreciate the postcard-like sunset and s ...... more |
| Artist's Statement |
When I am most successful my sculptures have the look and feel of floating forms, virtual weightlessness. Perhaps this is why I gravitate to aluminum as my preferred material, and why from childhood on, I have been especially fond of the works of Miro and Calder. I want my creations to be unique original artistic expressions that are both easy to live with as well as environmentally friendly to ...... more |