Zoe Dufour
As an artist, I explore the beauty and design of nature through the study of the human form
When I sculpt, I set up a rational framework for a piece through empirical knowledge, which gives appropriate constraints that my intuitive understanding can successfully play within. Intuition needs experience to guide it, and logic is dry without an emotional component. I am trying to achieve sculptures that balance between these modes of processing visual information; the physical and philosophical, form and concept. There is a strong dialogue between practices and thinking, a direct relationship between the hand and head. This balance is echoed everywhere in nature, and is a constant source of inspiration. Potential for tactile, emotional, and physical connections between objects, space, people and nature are what draws me sculpt.
Education
2010-2015 Grand Central Atelier
2014 July Studied at Douglass and Sturgess Casting Company
2013 Hudson River Fellowship
2010-2009 Ashland Art Academy
2008 California Collage of the Arts Summer Intensive
2007 Studied with artist Gerald Heffernon
2005-2006 Studied with artist Rita Alverez
Exhibitions and Awards
2020-2021 Sculptor in Residence at Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
2020 Recipient of the Alex J. Ettl Grant, National Sculpture Society
2019 Capturing the Artist: Contemporary and Historical Portraits from Life, Robert Simon Gallery, NYC
2019 Deane Keller Memorial Award, Salmagundi Club, NYC
2019 Emerging Stars in American Sculpture, Brookgreen Gardens, SC
2019 Florilegium, Eleventh St Arts Gallery, NYC
2018 1st Place Richard McDermott Miller Portrait Sculpture Competition, The National Sculpture
Society
2017 1st Place Representational Sculpture, American Art Awards
2016 1st Place in The National Sculpture Society's Portrait Sketch Competition
2016 Residents Show at Eleventh St Arts Gallery
2016 Sculpted Show at Decoy Workspace and Gallery
2015 Grand Prize Winner at Grand Central Atelier Figure Sculpture Competition
2014-2015 Grand Central Atelier Inaugural Group Show
2013 ARC Scholarship Winner
2010 Final Group Show Ashland Academy of Art
2008 Group Show at California College of the Arts
2007 Installation piece at the CAF offices in Davis, CA
Professional Experience
2020 Bust of Gordon Ruasser for University of California Berkeley
2018-2019 Sculpture Teacher, The Art School at Old Church, Damarest, NJ
2018 Sculptor for Serett Metalworks/New York Historical Society, NYC
Recreated a large pediment that was stolen in the stock market crash in the 30’s for a Historic New York City building on Broadway.
2015-Present Sculpture Teacher, Grand Central Atelier, New York, NY
2014-2019 Studio EIS, New York, NY
Worked as an integral part of the Studio EIS sculpture team, which required moving fluidly through all stages of production and development, from finishing stages of clay modeling, to mold making and armature welding, working collaboratively with the other sculptors as well as costumers, painters, wigmakers, clients, on many notable projects including, but not limited to-
Women’s Monument, Richmond, VA , Twelve Life-size Bronze Figures
The National Military Museum of the United States of America
National Harbor, Eight Life-size Bronze Sculpture Installations, Prince George’s County, MDMuseum of the American Revolution, Philadelphia, PA - figurative sculptures and 2 horses
National Museum of African American History and Culture, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC – 16 Portrait Sculptures
New York Historical Society, New York City - Exterior bronze Sculptures of President Lincoln and Frederick Douglass
American Revolution Museum at Yorktown, Yorktown, VA, – 13 sculptures recreating Revolutionary America.
2015 Durgama project for Carole Feuerman
2013-Present Various Commissioned Art Work