Eric Blome

USA

www.figurativeartstudio.com
Email: emblome@gmail.com

Biography

Erik Blome is an accomplished sculptor with works that dot the nation. His work encompasses everything from small-scale sculpture and drawings created for display in galleries to publicly commissioned monumental size bronzes for cities, sports stadiums, museums, universities and public spaces. Large-scale commissioned sculpture works have been permanently installed in the downtown areas of major cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Dallas TX, Milwaukee WI, Alexandria VA, Montgomery AL, and Dayton OH. Erik was born and raised in the Chicago area where he currently resides. Erik attended the University of Michigan where he earned a B.F.A. in Fine Art with a heavy concentration in figurative sculpture. He received his M.F.A. in sculpture from Boston University. Subsequently, he received a Rotary Scholarship and did postgraduate work at the Royal College of Art in London, England, where he received a postgraduate diploma in sculpture and drawing.

Erik has taught sculpture, bronze casting, public art and drawing at several colleges and art schools, including at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Academy of Art in San Francisco, and the Royal College of Art in London. He was a visiting artist at the American University in Cairo in 2009, and artist-in-residence at Addis Ababa University in Ethiopia in December 2010 through January 2011 where he built a fine art bronze foundry. In the summer of 2011 he was artist-in-residence at the City of Oak Lawn, Illinois where he had a temporary studio set-up to create a 9/11 first responders monument using large steel beams from the wreckage of the World Trade Center in New York City. Erik is currently a U.S. Fulbright Teaching Award Recipient for 2011-12 with affiliation at the sculpture department of Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt.

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