Does anyone do good sculpture today?

[Balog]

So I got to thinking about some of the amazing sculpture one finds from Classical Greece on, and I can't help but wonder if it's a dead art form? Is anyone out there still turning huge chunks of marble into beauty?

[Perd Hapley]

Winged Victory?

[K Frame]

[Balog]

Wow, that's beautiful. Muriel Castanis, eh? Must use my google-foo....

[K Frame]

Crap. Well, she's not doing anything these days.

Just found out she died last year.

I went to college with her youngest daughter. Interesting girl, very talented, and had an eyebrow (singular) that had to be continued on the next three women.

[HankB]

In today's commercial environment, some of the best sculptors are probably doing faces of the famous in wax museums. (And considering how some of those likenesses aren't exactly accurate . . . )

[Harold Tuttle]

IMHO, the realism of post Segal figurative sculpture has gotten a tad spooky.

Piccinnini is a good case in point:
http://beinart.org/modules/Word-Press/2007/05/06/patricia-piccininis-anthropomorphic-sculpture/

the execution of the piece is by :
Sam Jinks
http://www.theage.com.au/news/reviews/sam-jinks-distortions/2005/08/30/1125302559926.html

Traditionally sculptors hire a firm to carve or cast the full scale, final art work.
These days, the chinese are good knock off artists:
http://www.made-in-china.com/showroom/marblephenix/product-detailEGJQAynuzpgW/China-White-Marble-Sculpture-Stone-Statue-Antique.html