Matter and Spirit: Stephen De Staebler

"Clay can be a metaphor for many things. I made it a metaphor for flesh and earth."—Stephen De Staebler

Over the course of a fifty—year career, Stephen De Staebler (1933–2011) created powerful, elegiac figurative sculptures in clay and bronze. Extending and assimilating an artistic lineage that includes Michelangelo, Auguste Rodin, and Alberto Giacometti as well as the art of the ancient Americas, Egypt, and Greece, De Staebler developed a sculptural vocabulary uniquely his own. A resident o...