Forged and welded steel and reinforced concrete 12' x 2.5'x 2' 2004
Commissioned for the Perry N. Rudnick Trail at the Center for Craft
Creativity and Design, Hendersonville, NC
ABOUT THE SCULPTOR:
Roger Halligan has been creating sculpture since the mid seventies. He received his MFA with honors in Studio Arts from the University of Georgia in 1977.
He has exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in the US and abroad . His sculpture is in many collections including the cities of Carrboro and Raleigh, NC, the Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro, NC, the Maitland Museum in Maitland, FL and the Center for Craft Creativity and Design in Hendersonville, NC. His work is privately collected and can be seen regularly at the Lee Hansley Gallery in Raleigh, NC .
Some of other distinctions in the arts include curatorial work including the ?Just Racin? - Artists look at NASCAR Exhibition? for the Green Hill Center for North Carolina Art and being chosen as the Artist in Residence in 1997, at the North Carolina Zoological Park. Mr. Halligan is a founding member and past president of the Tri State Sculptors Educational Association, Inc..
He formed Two Oaks Studio with his artist partner Jan Chenoweth and in 2007 was awarded an ArtsMove Chattanooga Grant to relocate their home and studio to Chattanooga, TN.
