Masonry Magazine June 1995 Page. 23
Jon Ritchey
Ken Williams Studios
c/o Summit Brick & Tile
13th & Erie Streets
Pueblo, Colorado 81001-3586
Phone: 719/545-7517
With a strong visual background in advertising and television production, Ritchey joined the Ken Williams Studios in 1985, to specifically develop sculptured brick signage. Since that time, Ritchey has created and carved over sixty sculptured brick signs, monuments and sculptures. He says that "while there's no guarantee that one of our sculptures will be in place 10 years from now, it could just as easily be there in 100 years from now, as opposed to other forms that may have a shorter life span." One of his more challenging projects was only 3' high by 7 long, but entailed replicating an ornate and intricate design in brick from sandstone carvings on a bank. The building was completed about 1910, with the sandstone carvings originally done in a style similar to the style of the famous architect Louis Sullivan.
James Marshall
I-XL Brick Supplies
97 First Street
Medicine Hat, Alberta T1A 5J9
Phone: 403/527-2774
In the years 1969 to 1979, while employed with the marketing department at 1-XL Industries, I experimented with the idea of carving images on clay panes and on the surfaces of large clay sewer pipe. In 1979, I became a full time potter/artist and in 1983 an opportunity brought me back to carving brick. The project was an ambitious one that set me off on a great adventure in sculptured brick murals. In the past eleven years, seventy sculptured panels have been completed in twenty-six varied projects. These works have ranged from a fireplace in a fine home in Vancouver, British Columbia, to a seventeen panel project at St. Michael's Parish in Sarnia, Ontario. I really love bricks, they are still the best manufactured building material known to man and I think it is great to take this oldest of building materials and turn it into some pretty unique art.
John Carlance
Glen-Gery
41 South 2nd Street
Reading, PA 19602
Phone: 610/374-4011
Brick sculptures are a unique and expressive form of building art, offering limitless possibilities. On the interior or exterior of a building, my brick sculptures enhance the design, provide focal points and lend a means of expressing a pride of place or ownership. All of my work has been sculpted from Glen-Gery products because of the broad range of clays and shales available to them. Sculptures can be done with most any type of brick, however, if the brick does not contain a high clay content, it is much harder to sculpt.
Old Carolina Brick
705 Quintard Avenue, PO Box 786
Anniston, Alabama 36202
Phone: 205/237-2890
We had a unique medium for brick sculpture in that all of our brick are molded, rather than extruded, so that the carving of the sculpture would be in the molds rather than on the brick itself. This readily lends itself to a multiple reproduction of the sculpture, rather than a one of a kind creation, so the mass marketing potential is tremendous. We routinely make single, monolithic sculptures with Indian heads, ducks, herons, and other motifs in bas relief, but we have the capability of making any size mural or sculpture. Working with this process are various artists in the Ohio and Alabama plants.
Patricia Turlington
Turlington Brick Works
137 Farm Club Road
Goldsboro, North Carolina 27534
Phone: 919/731-7273
I maintain my own sculpting studio with a 10 foot high x 30 foot long brick sculpting easel made of angle iron steel. Brick sculpting offers me the opportunity to create sculpture that is an integral part of a building or landscape. It allows me the challenge of creating art that will speak to and entertain the people using the site. I have twenty-five years of experience as a brick sculptor. One of my latest commissions: Nature's Alphabet and the Tree of Memories is located in the Eddy Merle Watson Garden
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