Posing Female Nickel Sculpture III

At fifty-five and a half inches, this commanding vertical presence by John Richard draws the eye upward through the arrested motion of a posed female form rendered in polished nickel — a finish that catches and disperses light with the cool luminosity of still water. The aluminum and metal construction lends the figure an unexpected lightness, its slender ten-inch silhouette achieving a quiet tension between mass and grace. A marble and stone base grounds the composition, providing the geological counterweight that the gleaming figure above seems to both require and transcend.