I am pleased to have my life-size figurative sculpture The Descent from the Cross in an exhibit of 21 works of art at the Museum of the Bible in Washington DC. The exhibit opened on March 5th and closes May 5th. The paintings, prints, and my sculpture all depict Christ’s body being removed from the cross. “The Descent from the Cross” is the subject of the 13th station in “The Stations of the Cross”, and has been a source for meditation and prayer for generations of Christians. All of the art except mine was collected by Sandra Bowden, who organized the exhibit and approached the museum with the idea for it.
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DESCENT FROM THE CROSS
AT THE
MUSEUM OF THE BIBLE
Washington DC, March 2025
Professionally my life has been divided between three activities. Teaching is largely past tense now, but I started the studio art program at Messiah College (now University) in 1980. I served as Department Chair, held two successive Distinguished Professorships, and retired as Emeritus Professor of Art in 2009. I’ve also taught in Gordon College’s art intensive program in Orvieto Italy several times.
I’ve written about art a good bit too. I’ve had articles and essays published in several venues, including Image, American Arts Quarterly, and The New Criterion. I’ve written several catalog essays, edited a book about contemporary figurative art, A Broken Beauty, and curated an exhibition that included publishing a catalog about recent Jewish and Christian art, Like a Prayer. I wrote for and edited the art and faith organization CIVA’s (Christians in the Visual Arts) publication for over ten years and served as the organization’s second president.
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Wave Theory
2023-24
Granite base, and Danby Imperial Marble
Base plan 12”x11.5”, granite 21” high, marble 65” high
Wave Theory was made for the garden area of a private residence in Camp Hill PA. Danby Marble is quarried in VT, from the largest underground quarry in the world. This block was left over from the restoration of the Supreme Court’s exterior walk ways and steps in Washington DC.
Many Danby Marbles are veined with deposits of minerals. In this case the veins accentuate the sense of movement and undulation in the stone. Danby marble has some translucency when it is carved “thin”. At the very tip of the top wave there is a roughly triangular area where sun light is visible through the stone and the waves, and the veins and particles apparently disappear into the air.
Toward Healing
2017
Interior sculpture for Penn State’s School of Medicine at The Hershey Medical Center, Hershey PA with James Lard.
Theodore Prescott, Sculptor
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