Rubin Peacock (Born 1941) American, Abstract Etched Bronze Sculpture. Open spaces in the square-shaped top piece are attached to a solid rectangular base of the same bronze and thinness. A foundry label is stamped into the piece which includes "Cire Perdue" (referring to the lost wax technique used), next to a incised artist signature and the date 1991. 

Size: 13 x 3 1/2 x 11 in. 

Rubin Peacock was born on September 8th, 1941 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and was originally a musician, playing in a traveling rock and roll band to pay for college. He first became interested in art while obtaining his B.S. and B.F.A degrees from the University of Georgia. After two years in the Peace Corps, where he became proficient at welding and started researching his Catawba Native American ancestry, he continued his education at Virginia Commonwealth University, earning his M.F.A in 1969 and setting up a workshop in Richmond, Virginia, quickly becoming internationally famous for creating large-scale, biomorphic bronze sculptures that merge organic forms with geometric structure. His works are primarily cast in his own foundry, featuring in major museum, corporate, and private collections across the country, and he continues to produce new pieces there as well as in Sarasota, Florida, where he began to spend his winters in the early 2000s. 

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