Zenos Frudakis


Zenos Frudakis is an American sculptor whose subjects include portraits of living and historical individuals and poetic/philosophical sculpture. He lives and works near Philadelphia. His works include those at Brookgreen Gardens, the Lotos Club of New York City, the Utsukushi ga-hara Open Air Museum in Japan, the National Academy of Design, and the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria, South Africa

Biography

The oldest of five children growing up in Greek culture, Zenos admired, respected, and was drawn to Greek sculpture. Greek art influenced his aesthetic vision; additional inspiration came from sculptors Michelangelo, Bernini, Carpeaux and Rodin. The poetry of Eliot, Frost, Roethke and Graves, is important to Zenos, as is philosophy.
Born in 1951 in San Francisco, Frudakis was raised in Wheeling, West Virginia, and Gary, Indiana, where he worked in the steel mills. He began drawing at a very young age, and in 1972 came to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. He studied sculpture with two Prix de Rome winners: his elder brother, sculptor Evangelos Frudakis, and painter James Hanes. At the University of Pennsylvania, he earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Fine Art.

International sculptures

American sculptures

In a career spanning over four decades, Frudakis has produced monumental figures such as the United States Air Force Memorial Honor Guard Installed at the Arlington National Cemetery, and Freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Monumental sculptures

Boxing

Contemporary

Frudakis is a member of the prestigious National Sculpture Society.
In 1990, Frudakis was invited to participate in Japan's Third Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition, where he won the Hakone Award at Utsukushi-ga-hara Open Air Museum. The museum purchased a cast of Frudakis's sculpture Reaching.
In 1991 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an associate member, and became a full academician in 1993.

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