Gary Kilgore

My bio follows after this paragraph, but it's important to share this information, and I don't see another prominent place to post it on my page. I sculpt in wax, then my foundry makes molds of my work, shoots wax copies from the molds, I work on the wax parts, then the foundry casts them in bronze. So, in addition to sculpting the original piece, I spend hours working on the wax copies before they are cast in bronze. Although I resumed sculpting in 2007, I am only now (2019) listing them with a gallery (Saatchi). When I take a sculpture to the foundry, I have one piece cast of a sculpture, and I mark it number one. If I sell that sculpture, I have the foundry cast another copy and it is number two. I keep a record the person who bought a sculpture. When I cast the 10th copy of a sculpture, I will destroy the mold and make no more copies of that sculpture. As you see, that is very important information to share with you.
I apprenticed to Belgian portrait sculptress, Jeanne Gevaert in Atlanta, after school during my junior and senior years of high school (1970-1972). The summer of 1972 as high school wrapped up, I began an apprenticeship to goldsmith/avant garde artist, Peggy Ackerly (in Atlanta)(Peggy was a protege of Sam Kra...

apprentice to Jeanne Gevaert (1970-1972);
apprentice to Peggy Ackerly (1972-1973);
University of Miami, Architecture (1973-1975);
Georgia State University, BBA (1975-1978)