My name is Robert Bricker, I am a figurative bronze sculptor. I began stone carving the figure when I was 15 years old, and by the age of 25, I had established my own bronze foundry business in Charlottesville, Virginia. Although it is a small business, I have built my foundry to handle monumental scale bronze sculptures, and I am responsible for the creation of fifteen public monuments in Virginia and on the east coast, many of which are of my own design. 

Although I am trained as a realist figurative sculptor, I am deeply interested in personal expression with the figure. Imagination and composition are paramount priorities. I am a spatial thinking artist, and my work has a distinguished sensibility of form in space. At best, I am a relief sculptor with an emphasis on self-portraiture in-the-extreme, and with an in-depth introspection and veiled layers of self confessions. With reliefs, my figures exist within their own form-consistent environment. By investigating my ‘self’, I hope to strike chords that rhyme with the inner selves of my viewing audience. I am dedicated to creating figurative imagery that is designed as visual poetry, in which the meaning for the viewer is as legitimate as my own original intention. 

I am a sculptor who loves to draw. I draw constantly from live models my studio. I try to cultivate a call-and-response synergy. Models become a point of departure for me to embark on introspection and to tease out the threads of my curious internal contradictions. I try to stare thru the temporality of the model in order to glimpse something eternal about them and myself – while notating with my drawing hand. I am quite interested in the spatial environment in which my figures exist, with provocative potential meanings of juxtaposed disparate props and symbols.