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Dani and life size clay for "Ghost Cat" |
Dani Harman Zack is an award-winning sculptor whose
classical bronzes focus on the emotions inherent in our connections with
animals, with each other and with ourselves.
Her work is reminiscent of the baroque in complexity and emotional
intensity, yet her subjects are chosen from present day and personal
experience.
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Inspecting first copy of Pony del Pueblo at the
casting foundry |
Zack came to art after spending thirty years designing
computer software. She claims
all that early work was merely a preparation for the skills her
art career demands. Organization, focus, dedication and plenty of
perseverance are all needed to take an idea and develop it from sketch to
clay to wax and finally into bronze. She
works primarily in oil-based clay then has a local professional mold-maker
prepare her molds and waxes. She
is personally involved in final wax preparation for the foundry and
applies her own patinas to finished bronze using traditional hot patina
methods and materials.
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Dani with life size clay for Pony del Pueblo
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Zack teaches and exhibits at the Sedona Arts
Center where she began sculpting in the mid 1990's.
Last year she won the Joe and Mary Back Sculpture Award in Dubois
Wyoming, and completed her first life-size sculpture, a horse,
commissioned by the Tucson-Pima
Arts Council for their two-year Ponies
del Pueblo project. Another
equine sculpture titled “Best Friends” was installed on Main street by
the City of Delta, Colorado. Zack
is an associate member of the Women
Artists of the West organization and exhibited in three of their shows in 2003.
She also exhibited with the American
Academy of Equine Artists.
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Dani &
Ande Volado |
“Like most artists, I work best with themes and subjects
that touch me deeply. Consequently
much of my work is drawn directly from personal experience.
A passion for animals, especially horses, has been an abiding
thread throughout my life. I often explore the universal emotions,
amusement, joy, sorrow, love and loss in that context.
Animals are so amazingly centered in the here and now, so free of pretense
and ultimately so generous and loving! I feel we have much to
learn from them on a spiritual level.
My art is my way of sharing my love and its lessons.” |
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Dani Harman Zack, Sculptor
