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| First Name | michael |
| Last Name | keropian |
| Born | 1959-04-27 |
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| Biography | |
Michael Keropian was born in 1959 in Hartford, Connecticut. From a young age he was inspired to draw. Without any formal training, he began painting in oils and working in clay. He had always admired Greek Sculpture and in 1978, after a tour of the wonderful antique cast collection at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, he applied and was accepted. He soon was offered two working scholarships to the Academy; manager of the darkroom (teaching both instructors and students darkroom techniques), and monitor of the carving annex. While majoring in sculpture, he helped create a cast restoration project, restoring the Academy's neglected collection of antique casts. He also worked as a conservator for the P.A.F.A. Museum. Mr. Keropian became quite versed in sculptural techniques during his five years at the Academy.
In 1984, He created a medal of Chief Justice Earl Warren, and worked on several commissions for private estates. In order to learn more about sculptural technique and to help pay the rent, he worked for the Olde Philadelphia Marble Works, and was made foreman of sculpture; restoring marble sculptures in the Philadelphia area. In 1986, he moved to the Hudson Valley in New York, and was offered a position at the Tallix Sculpture Foundry, where he dedicated his service to the many sculptors; enlarging and moldmaking their projects. In the late eighties, he was asked to create a medal for the Jacksonville Jaguar Football Team. He began teaching sculpture both privately, and in adult education institutions in New York and Connecticut area.
Mr. Jason Edward Kaufman; art historian, writes;" You are of the dying breed who know sculpture from the quarry to the foundry, and beyond... Throughout the history of art, execution has often been detached from invention. But when one thinks of Michelangelo, or Bernini, one notes that this was not always the case.
Since 1996, Mr. Keropian has taught at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, in New York City; there he teaches sculpture and creates anatomy sculptures for donation to educational institutions in the Northeast. He restored Houdon's L'Ecorche (flayed-man) for the National Academy of Design and is currently teaching sculpture at ArtLife Studios in Port Chester, New York and Wooster Community for the Arts in Danbury, CT. He is a professional member of the National Sculpture Society, and on the Board of Directors for the Hudson Valley Art Association. He has also been a Kayak Guide and Coach for over 12 years for Atlantic Kayak Tours.
Mr. Keropian's sculptural compositions of figures and animals are combined with the elements of nature and architecture in a spiritual celebration of movement, shape and form.
In 2000, he was commissioned to create nine heroic-sized tigers for the new stadium of the Detroit Tigers; Comerica Park.
He has currently been working on a number of portrait commissions and memorial projects. |
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