Hope Konecny

Education:

BFA Ceramics and Sculpture- San Jose State
Studied with Fletcher Benton
National champion team, Fencing
Welding and Sculpture, Columbia University
Art Students League, Anatomical Drawing
Jewelry and Gems, Parsons

There is magic in Hope’s journey. A teacher and artist in the Eastern tradition of unifying physical, spiritual and artistic disciplines. Her style illustrates a wealth of experience and adventure. A champion of creation with the ability to move her audience whether through a formidable and majestic sculpture or passionately designed piece of jewelry.

Hope offers herself to this world through many mediums. She teaches Yoga and Fencing in her restored South Westerlo home. The two disciplines require inner peace, control and strategy. There are many facets to her art and her life.

Through out her life there have always been two paths, the art and the physical. These complement her love for creating and expressing herself. Sculpture possesses a esthetic, problem solving and physical quality. Hope’s human scale sculptures dance with their creator. They offer your landscape personality and love. Throughout the day and night they enhance the environment with both sun and moon kissed shadows. They experience life as the light of the seasons play upon them. Her art awakens her, like a close friend, yearning for further conversation and attention. Beginning the drawing, to finishing a piece is magical and timeless.

As a child, Hope made pinch pots along the river. Ceramics taught her the importance of form. Through high school and college she was devoted to ceramics. At San Jose State she began to work with a slab roller and extruder, cutting out forms and assembling them eventually adding wood and metal. During this exciting time, Hope was discovering her medium. She enjoyed spending time in the library with sculpture books by David Smith and Rodriquez. Metal was becoming her clay. She worked in an Art foundry casting bronze. As a blacksmith her respect for lines and forging techniques came alive. She opened the Lost Wax Studio in Chelsea, NYC casting sculptures of Louise Bourgeois’. During her time working at Bob Eber’s studio she solidified her commitment to sculpture.

Hope’s heart is filled with joy as her art pleases and enlightens you……

When asked “How long does this take you to make?” Hope replies,

“All of my Life”