Gregg LeFevre

Classical Wrinks

Classical and Neoclassical white marble sculptures provide the inspiration for Gregg LeFevre’s reliefs and constructions. The interplay between the flat photographic images he chooses and the three-dimensionality he creates makes for conflicts in reality, joining the current conversation about what is “real” and what is “fake”.

Referencing body mapping, nail points used by da Vinci’s and later Canova’s “pointing machines” helped translate plaster sculptures into carved marble. In this sculpture by Giambologna the pointing nails have been replaced by glass cabochon and rhinestones.

VISIT GREGG’S STUDIO

Classical

Unfolding

The Beauty Of The “Three-Graces”.

In Greek and Roman mythology, these three dancing female forms were said to be the daughters of different gods. The middle figure always faces opposite the outside two figures. They were the subjects of Greco Roman sculptors and later, Neoclassical artists like Canova.

Three-dimensional Voyage.

background texture of beach

Accident plays an important part in even the most meticulously planned art. LeFevre was moving an 8-foot tall bronze piece around his studio but it toppled into another piece leaning against a wall, a photo-relief of a Canova marble, a statue of Perseus. Smaaash! He put the fragmented piece into a trash pile, and then looked at it and said, “I realized that maybe the broken photo wasn’t ruined after all.”