TRACI L. SLATTON
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Catch my husband Sabin Howard on the radio
Sabin is talking about art, sculpture, modern classicism, drawing, anatomy–and what makes all that great!
Review of THE ART OF LIFE
From Atelier Mends Blogspot:
“…this rich, intelligent study interweaving the history of classical sculpture and Howard’s own personal process finishes by leading the reader to understand the transformative power of art as a whole, through the eyes of one of its talented makers. ”
See the blogpost here.
Buy the eBook here.
Amazon purchase here. Please pay no attention to “Out of stock” notification on Amazon, it is not true. It is a hiccup on Amazon. Or purchase from Barnes & Noble here.
He’s speaking about the figure, and for living figurative artists, Sabin Howard is the man. See him for free at the new Brooklyn facilities of the Teaching Studios of Art, this Saturday from 7-9 pm.
55 Meadow St., Suite 222
Brooklyn, NY 11206
Sabin Howard grew up in New York City and in Torino, Italy. He studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and then earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. For twenty years, he taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been elected to the board of the National Sculpture Society. He has received numerous commissions and has showed his work at more than fifty solo and group shows.
After 45,000 hours of working from life models in the studio, he is the creator of three heroic scale pieces, HERMES, APHRODITE, and APOLLO, as well as many smaller pieces. His works are owned by museums and private collectors all over the world, and they have been favorably reviewed by The New York Times, American Artist, Fine Arts Connoisseur, American Arts Collector, and The New Criterion, as well as many other journals internationally. He is the author of the book THE ART OF LIFE with his wife author Traci L. Slatton.
ART TALK interview with Classical Figurative Sculptor Sabin Howard
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Sabin Howard grew up in New York City and in Torino, Italy. He studied art at the Philadelphia College of Art and then earned his MFA from the New York Academy of Art. For twenty years, he taught at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has been elected to the board of the National Sculpture Society. He has received numerous commissions and has showed his work at more than fifty solo and group shows.
After 45,000 hours of working from life models in the studio, he is the creator of three heroic scale pieces, HERMES, APHRODITE, and APOLLO, as well as many smaller pieces. His works are owned by museums and private collectors all over the world, and they have been favorably reviewed by The New York Times, American Artist, Fine Arts Connoisseur, American Arts Collector, and The New Criterion, as well as many other journals internationally. He is the author of the book THE ART OF LIFE with his wife author Traci L. Slatton.
Sabin Howard, a sculptor of immense talent, has created some of the last decade’s most substantive realistic sculpture. When viewing his works, visitors may be reminded of the time when Donatello and Rodin walked the earth.
The New York Times, April 28, 2002
New Perspectives Radio Interview of Sabin Howard & Traci Slatton
Listen to a great radio interview here.
Sabin Howard Sculpture
The Epoch Times, a vibrant and thoughtful international news outlet in both print and internet format, reviewed our sculpture opening at the Institute for Classical Architecture and Art on March 2, 2012.
Parts of my talk that night were quoted, including my line about post-modernism: “I’m here to tell you, the emperor has no clothes.”
Check out this well-written article here.
NEW YORK—A new vigor for classical arts, like another Renaissance, is in the air at the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, in Manhattan, where the lifelike sculptures of Sabin Howard are now on exhibit through March 22.
“Real art uplifts you, it transforms you,” said award-winning novelist Traci L. Slatton, who is also Howard’s wife.
Under the various banners of classicism, realism, and art that is simply “uplifting,” Slatton and other accomplished professionals from the art and literary world gathered on March 2 to celebrate Howard’s works—many of which depict gods in the Greek and Roman tradition and took Howard years to create.
“Looking is the point, beauty is the point, mastery is the point,” said Slatton in an opening speech that condemned the highly conceptual direction of abstract and contemporary art today. “Sabin Howard’s pieces lack irony; this is a deliberate choice.”
The event was not simply an exhibit but a call for a revival of traditional techniques and uplifting subject matter.
Stefano Acunto, chairman of the Italian Academy Foundation, which hosted the exhibit, implored, “Let us work to build upon the work of the greatest achievers, to improve upon it, and to develop it organically—much as Sabin Howard is doing.”
