Peltzer -- Sculpture Gallery One

Patience and the Muses' Aid stainless steel CorTen steel pedestal 11'5" high (3.5m) commissioned by Gottschalks Corporation for the City of Visalia, California on public display in front of Gottschalks Visalia 2211 S Mooney Blvd. Visalia CA 93277 Quicktime 360° walk-around (480 kB) (2.6 MB - requires Apple Quicktime 5) Click on any photo for a PDF formatted portfolio page of each individual piece (ranging from 400 to 800 kB). These files are designed to print in higher resolution on a color inkjet. Requires Adobe Acrobat 4 or later.
E R I C P E L T Z E R S C U L P T U R E Gallery One The works on this page are shown in reverse chronological order. Sizes range from about 13" high to over twelve feet high. This is a long page and will load slowly - the advantage of this layout is that you will be able to view the first images as the ones below continue to load. The predominant material is metal: stainless steel and bronze. The sculptures are welded together out of curved sheet and plate. While not terribly objective, the works are, I think, reminiscent of certain forms. . . The human figure is definitely present, sometimes only hinted at. But there are other influences and interpretations -- which are best left up to the individual. My work owes much to having worked with George Baker in planning, engineering, and constructing his kinetic metal sculptures for over ten years. For a look at the work of this intriguing sculptor, go to George Baker: Kinetic Sculpture.
Revision of Light 16" high (41 cm) bronze, stainless steel, wood base, commissioned by Dr. Kazutoshi Yamamoto, Saijo, Japan 1996
If the Body Were Not the Soul 7' 6" high (230 cm) stainless steel, bronze base sculpture mounted on turning bearing Private collection, Phoenix, Arizona completed May 2000 Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those whoe defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body doesnot do fully as much as the soul? And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul? Walt Whitman, from *I Sing the Body Electric*
Waking Muse 17" high (43 cm) bronze, maple wood base edition of twenty 2000
Ethereal Rift 30" high x 26" wide x 3" deep (76cm x 66cm x 8cm) maple wood, stainless steel, glass Commissioned for the Yamamoto Eye Clinic Saijo, Japan - 1999
Vision of Light 49" high x 30 wide (124cm x 76cm) stainless steel Commissioned for the Yamamoto Eye Clinic Saijo, Japan - 1996
Brazen Veins, Nerves of Steel, Purple Heart 5' 6" wide (168 cm) bronze, stainless steel, purple heart wood Collection Facey Medical Group, Northridge, California 1995
Black Coal Fire 7' 3" high (226cm) Cor-Ten rusted steel stainless steel base 1994
Alegrias 27" high (69cm) stainless steel, bronze base Private collection Seattle, Washington 1993
Worlds Unformed . . . 20" high (51cm) bronze with red patina, stainless steel base Private collection, Seattle, Washington- 1993
. . . And Unborn Yet 52" high (132cm) bronze with red patina, stainless steel base Private collection Palm Springs, California 1993
Shaft of Light 50" high x 26" wide (127 cm x 66 cm) stainless steel with serpentine texture gold heat-patina Private collection Issaquah, Washington 1993
Not the People We Dream 7'2" high (219cm) stainless steel on concrete base Private collection Melbourne, Australia 1992
Shard of Ancient Suns 8'4" high (254cm) stainless steel Coll. American Resurgens Corporation Installed in the atrium of the MK One Building Boise, Idaho 1992
Small Shard 36" high (91cm) stainless steel with textured finish gold-purple-brown heat patina Private collection Richmond, Virginia 1992 - see a Quicktime 360 degree view of this piece
to Sculpture Gallery Two - earlier works to Eric Peltzer Sculpture home page

Patience and the Muses' Aid

stainless steel
CorTen steel pedestal

11'5" high (3.5m)

commissioned by
Gottschalks Corporation for
the City of Visalia, California

on public display in front of
Gottschalks Visalia
2211 S Mooney Blvd.
Visalia CA 93277

Quicktime 360° walk-around (480 kB)
(2.6 MB - requires Apple Quicktime 5)

Click on any photo for a PDF formatted portfolio page of each individual piece (ranging from 400 to 800 kB). These files are designed to print in higher resolution on a color inkjet. Requires Adobe Acrobat 4 or later.

E R I C P E L T Z E R S C U L P T U R E

Gallery One

The works on this page are shown in reverse chronological order.
Sizes range from about 13" high to over twelve feet high.

This is a long page and will load slowly - the advantage of this layout is that you will be
able to view the first images as the ones below continue to load.

The predominant material is metal: stainless steel and bronze.
The sculptures are welded together out of curved sheet and plate.
While not terribly objective, the works are, I think, reminiscent of certain forms. . .

The human figure is definitely present, sometimes only hinted at. But there are other influences and interpretations -- which are best left up to the individual.

My work owes much to having worked with George Baker in planning, engineering, and constructing his kinetic metal sculptures for over ten years. For a look at the work of this intriguing sculptor, go to

George Baker: Kinetic Sculpture.

Revision of Light

16" high (41 cm)
bronze, stainless steel, wood base,
commissioned by Dr. Kazutoshi Yamamoto,
Saijo, Japan
1996

If the Body Were Not the Soul

7' 6" high (230 cm)
stainless steel, bronze base
sculpture mounted on turning bearing
Private collection, Phoenix, Arizona
completed May 2000

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies
conceal themselves?
And if those whoe defile the living are as bad as they who
defile the dead?
And if the body doesnot do fully as much as the soul?
And if the body were not the soul, what is the soul?
Walt Whitman, from I Sing the Body Electric

Waking Muse

17" high (43 cm)
bronze, maple wood base
edition of twenty
2000

Ethereal Rift

30" high x 26" wide x 3" deep
(76cm x 66cm x 8cm)
maple wood, stainless steel, glass
Commissioned for the Yamamoto Eye Clinic
Saijo, Japan - 1999