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Sculptor-Constructivist
201 Cedar Grove Rd.
Conshohocken, PA 19428
phone: 610 825-1274
e-mail: jimvicto@jimvictor.com
Education:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Majored in Sculpture, 1963-1968
York Academy of Art, York, PA, 1962-1963
Awards:
Many prizes including the Cresson European Traveling Scholarship and the
Gold Award, Dimensional Illustrators Show, 1989, and most recently the
Dene M. Louchheim Faculty Fellow Award in 1996.
Commissions:
Numerous commissions for the City of Philadelphia, bronze sculpture portraits
for the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 1776, Hahnemann
Medical University, and many others. In size they range from a 17 foot
high steel construction for the Diamond Tool Company to a 3 inch bronze
"Rerum Novarum" medal.
Exhibitions:
Has exhibited at most of the major art institutions in Philadelphia and
has had several one-man shows including "Victor's Anatomy" at the Rodger
Lapelle Gallery in 1987. He has also shown at the Phoenix Gallery in New
York City.
Teaching
Experience:
Since 1969 has been teaching or taught sculpture and related arts at all
of these institutions: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Rosemont
College, Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia Museum of Art, University
of the Arts, Drexel University, Penn State (Capitol Campus) Besides these
and others He is a roster artist for the Arts in Education Program through
the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and has been Artist-in-Residence
at 15 schools since 1995.
Public
Collections:
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Atlanta Georgia; Bryn Mawr College,
(Hobson Pittman House) Bryn Mawr, PA
Food
Sculptures:
Chocolate sculpture portaits of Mickey Rooney, Anne Miller, Robin Williams,
Mayor William Green and others. Butter sculptures done for Pennsylvania
State Farm Show, Eastern States Exposition in Massachusetts, Anderson
County Fair in South Carolina, and Montgomery County Fair in Maryland,
and others.
Dimensional
Illustrations:
New York Times (Op-Ed page), Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine (cover), New
York Magazine, Philadelphia Magazine, Graphis, Der Spiegel, Three Dimensional
Illustration 1991, and others.
 
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