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Sumner Winebaum manipulates bronze masterfully, bringing the metal to life through his nuanced use of expression and keen sense of movement. Clearly this is a man who sees great beauty in the human form. His sculpture instantly engages, be it a delicate nude figure study or a more playful composition such as "High Wire," where two disembodied hands hold a taut thread balancing a small male figure. "I'm nuts about the human body," admits Winebaum. "I try to capture the body in bronze in ways that show the limitless kinds of beauty as well as the inexhaustible evidences of strengths and weaknesses hidden in each and every one. I try to have each touch of clay help me tell their story, express their emotion, get to the very heart."
Winebaum's path to his career as a sculptor has been long and somewhat circuitous. He began his career in advertising at Young & Rubicam, where he enjoyed great success, then moved on to serve as president of Winebaum News, a distributor of books, magazines and newspapers. Yet sculpting has always been Winebaum's passion; throughout his life he has pursued study in the medium, no matter his day job. Today he works as a sculptor full-time.
Winebaum received his A.B. in English from the University of Michigan and studied art at New York's Art Students League among other places. He has exhibited in shows up and down the East Coast and has won the New Hampshire Art Association's Hitchener Manufacturing Award for Sculpture and Rosamund deKalb Award, and the Omar T. Lassonde Prize among others. His work is in the collections of the Currier Museum of Art, the Carter Gallery at the University of New Hampshire, and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation as well as in numerous private collections.
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