Eugene Daub Retrospective at PV Art Center

Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education has announced Eugene Daub: Monumental, a retrospective of the internationally acclaimed sculptor’s large public works. This exhibition will offer a behind-the-scenes view into the creation of monumental sculptures – starting from the sketch to a maquette, the enlargement, the mold-making process, and finally the pouring of the bronze and welding it all back together again from many pieces.

Among the 12 of Daub’s monumental works chronicled by this exhibition are Lewis & Clark, Kansas City, Missouri; Rosa Parks, US Capitol, Washington, D.C.; Harry Bridges, ILWU Union Hall, Wilmington, CA; Thomas Jefferson, University of Virginia, and Phineas Banning, Banning’s Landing, Wilmington.
This past June, On June 19, Daub won the Marcel Jovine President’s Prize for a realistic work, in the form of a bas-relief of Civil Rights leader and legendary member of Congress, John Lewis.

In 2013, a monument he completed of another Civil Rights icon, Rosa Parks, was installed in the statuary hall of the U.S. Congress.

In 2019, Daub completed a bronze statue of Harry Bridges. Within the past 30 years Daub has designed and created many public art commissions for the U.S. government, private foundations, universities and corporations and has exhibited in the British Museum and the Smithsonian Institute, among other locations.

His previous commissions include Harvey Milk, young Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jefferson. The artist has built his reputation on classically styled figurative works. His accomplishments have been recognized through numerous awards in full figure, monumental and bas relief sculpture. He serves on the board of the National Sculpture Society and has taught sculpture around the country for years.

Most recently, Daub has been creating small metal disc sculptures of San Pedro’s famed poet Charles Bukowski. The sculptures are to raise funds toward creating a bust to be displayed in a location to be determined within the Waterfront Arts District. Plans have been in the works for the Bukowski in Bronze bust since August 2019 but were slighted by the pandemic.

Daub’s first job in sculpture was for The Franklin Mint where he developed skills in relief sculpture. He taught at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco from 1993 to 2002. He has been an instructor at the Scottsdale Artists’ School from 1991 to the present and is the designer of the first Philadelphia Liberty Medal, which that city awards every year to a champion of world peace.

Daub has exhibited extensively and has works in numerous public collections including the Helsinki Art Museum, the British Museum; the Smithsonian Institution; The National Statuary Hall Collection in the United States Capitol, and the United States National Park Service. Daub has created over 40 major monuments in the U.S. in the last 30 years and is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society.

In the last 30 years Daub has created over 40 major monuments in the U.S. He won both of the nation’s highest awards for excellence in metallic art: The Saltus Award from the American Numismatic Society, and the gold medal, from the American Numismatic Association. The exhibition runs from Sept. 25 to Nov. 13.

Cost: Free
Details: www.pvartcenter.org and https://eugenedaub.com/
Venue: Palos Verdes Art Center, 5504 Crestridge Road, Rancho Palos Verdes