About Pozycinski Bronze Studios

		Glass and bronze. Glass is transparent, translucent. Bronze is thick, opaque. Glass suggests air and light. Bronze, weight. Bring these materials together and one finds in the result an engaging blend of aesthetic interplay. Bring them together in the Pozycinski Studio and one finds an artistic balance of media and form. Just as glass and bronze suggest contrast, so too do the forms: simple yet complex, modern yet fraught here and there with glimpses of ancient culture. This complementary balance in their work--of past with present, of organic form with inorganic media--is itself the result of a long history of creative interests between them. At the University of Illinois, Joe studied engineering and technology; Georgia, marine biology and zoology. In 1975 they moved to the small town of Sparta, Missouri, where they developed their skills in wood and pottery. Joe’s lacquered wood vessels tapped into a rich vein of ancient Chinese craftsmanship and developed his eye for simple, elegant form. Georgia’s sculptured clay work deepened her connection with the endless variety and detail of terrestrial and marine life forms. In 1993, they turned to metal sculpture and found bronze to be the perfect medium for their collaborative work. Since working in bronze is technically more complex than working in wood or clay, they learned new skills in ancient methods: mold making, lost wax casting, metal forming, and patination.
			Joe, Amy, Georgia, and Jake Photo by Nolan Marshall

In 2007 they incorporated cast glass with their bronze. In the combination of these materials they found something neither wood nor clay nor bronze alone could capture. Look at the work and it is there: the poise, the equilibrium. Everything is in balance: modern and ancient forms in a glass suspension upon a weighted ground. The simple fragility of life captured in symmetrical and recurrent patterns. The work ultimately reveals a delicate stability, a motion momentarily, almost playfully at rest.
In 2010 the've created smaller boxes and sculpture to compliment their larger pieces.
Pozycinski Studios have won awards at the best art festivals in the country, including the Coconut Grove Art Festival, the Winter Park Art Festival in Orlando, the Cherry Creek Art Festival in Denver and the Rolex Award for excellence in Metal at the Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show in 2001 and 2003 and Award for Excellence in Glass 2009. They have exhibited at the following fine art & craft shows.
ACC Craft Fair in Baltimore Ann Arbor Street Art Fair Smithsonian Craft Show Milwaukee Lakefront Festival Washington Craft Fair ACC Craft Fair in Atlanta St Louis Art Fair Sausalito Arts Festival Long's Park Art & Craft Festival		Philadelphia Museum of Art Craft Show Plaza Art Fair in Kansas City Westchester Craft Show Laumeier Contemporary Art Fair American Craft Exposition in Evanston Northern Virginia Fine Arts Festival Fort Worth Main Street Art Festival ACC Craft Fair in Sarasota Palm Beach Fine Craft Show