Gary Traczyk Sculpture at ArtiGras Feb. 13-14 in Palm Beach Gardens
Breast Cancer Awareness Sculptures by Artist Gary Traczyk
Miami sculptor and firefighter Gary Traczyk has created his stainless steel art for a host of causes since the start of his career. But breast cancer has long been an especially personal issue for the artist. He has created numerous sculptures for friends who have been touched by the disease over the past two decades, as well as for the Mammography Art Initiative from Florida International University.
A Look Inside Stainless Steel Sculpting - Part II
Last week, we began our exploration of the process Miami sculptor Gary Traczyk used to create a towering stainless steel wall sculpture for a commercial building on South Beach. (If you need a refresher, check out Part I here.)
When we left off, Traczyk had just wrapped up cutting, welding, grinding, sanding and polishing dozens of stainless steel tubes in various sizes.
Artist in Motion: Kinetic Steel Sculptor Gary Traczyk
Maybe it was the way light ricocheted off the gleaming silver curves that first hooked artist Gary Traczyk on kinetic stainless steel sculpture.
Maybe it was the sleight-of-hand-style appeal of transforming hefty steel into seemingly weightless, dancing forms.
Or maybe it was the challenge of molding a notoriously obstinate metal into the shapes his imagination dictated.
But probably for a man who arrived on the planet with an inborn inertia, more than anything else, it was movement.