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Rod Thomas Zullo
Born
Bucks County, Pennsylvania; 1965
Education
Montana State University: four years sculpture major
Living Artistic Mentor
Floyd T. DeWitt
Favorite Living Sculptors
Floyd T. DeWitt, George Carlson, Kent Ullberg, and Jonathan Kenworthy
Favorite Master Sculptors
Paul Troubetzkoy, Rembrant Bugatti, A.L. Barye, Auguste Rodin, and Antoine Bourdelle
Favorite Master Painters
Vincent Van Gogh and Juoquin Sorolla
Artist Statement
Rod’s Grandmother was a painter and encouraged his parents to send him to private art lessons with a well-known Buck’s County impressionist at the age of five. The consummate student of art, Rod continually searches for his own truth. Traveling abroad has exposed him to a variety of art styles, mediums and messages. By studying past and present masters, Rod explores sculpture as a metaphor of the present world. Under the guidance and mentoring of Floyd T. DeWitt, Rod strives to see beyond the literal and narrative to create work that is contemplative and metaphorical yet based on traditional foundations. His goal is to see the abstract forms in nature and express this in sculpture by marrying the components of discipline and creativity to express a concept rather than an image.
Awards
2002: Masters in Montana Betty Nelson Memorial Award 2003: NSS Annual Awards Exhibition Beverly Hoyt Memorial Award 2005: NSS Annual Awards Exhibition Polich Foundry Award
Exhibitions
Chaparral Fine Art - Masters in Montana - 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2004 Nicholas Fine Art - Five Man Show titled “October Gold” - 2001 Chaparral Fine Art - “One man show of Recent Works”- August 2003 National Sculpture Society (NSS) - Annual Awards Exhibition -2003, 2005 Sculpture in the Park - Loveland, CO - 2004 National Museum of Wildlife Art - Western Visions Show - 2005
Notes of Interest
For twenty years, Rod traveled all over the world guiding fishermen for everything from blue marlin to brook trout. He is currently a licensed fly fishing outfitter in Montana. Additionally, Rod has written magazine articles for leading sporting publications and is working on his first novel.
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