"Julius Caesar" BUST

1998

Clay

24 x 24 x 24 inches

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By age seventeen, Gabe felt powerfully drawn toward sculpture. This depiction of his friend William Tombs as Julius Caesar is an example of his turn to three dimensional art, though a lifelike sketch of his friend William also dates from this period.  For the duration of their time at Western Albemarle High School, Gabe and William met many times a week in the art classroom. Between 1995 and 1999,  the class there became a group of dear friends, and together produced a prolific amount of art over these four formative years.