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Martine Vaugel Martine Vaugel was born in 1950, a first generation American of French - Czechoslovakian parents in New York City. She attended the Beaux Arts in Paris, France, the Art Student’s League in New York City, and the Philadelphia College of Art. She also apprenticed to master bronze caster Elliott Midwood in Los Angeles, California in 1974. Her first public commission came at the age of 23 for the late governor of New York, Nelson Rockefeller. Martine Vaugel’s sculptures can be found in the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, The Rockefeller Collection, the collections of President Carter, Corazon Aquino, President George Bush, Mayor Tom Bradley, Sir Richard Attenborough, Mother Teresa, the City of Los Angeles, on Mahatma Gandhi’s ashes at the Self Realization and Fellowship. Her bust of Mahatma Gandhi is used by the Gandhi International Memorial Foundation as an international peace prize. Recipients include Ryoichi Sasakawa, Mikhail Gorbachev and President Ronald Reagan. The artist has also completed a heroic bronze portrait of Mr. Nick Patsaouras, of Los Angeles. This bronze can be seen at the Patsaouras Plaza at the Union Station Metro Transit Authority site. Vaugel twice received the prestigious Hakone Open Air Museum award in the Rodin Grand Prize Exhibition in Tokyo (1990 & 1992). More than 440 international monumental figure sculptors competed in each exhibition. Martine also considers herself to be a portrait sculptor. In her own words “portraits are a universal form for expressing personal, mythological and heroic archetypes. Doing a portrait combines my love of capturing the spirit of a person with the assignment of finding the most essential aspect of their humanity…A successful portrait combines both these ingredients and transcends the personal.” As an educator: in 1976 she co-founded the Venice Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Studio, a non-profit educational corporation in Southern California. She also founded three other sculpture schools, one in Vihiers, France; one in New York, New York; and one in Durham, NC. In addition, the artist was invited to be Sculpture Director at the New York Academy of Art in 1986. |
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