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It's All in the Details 

Wendy Drolma

Paul Andrew Schultz

John Belardo

 

September 6 - November 2, 2025

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Figureworks is pleased to present It’s All in the Details with mask maker Wendy Drolma, painter Paul Andrew Schultz and sculptor John Belardo.  These very diverse artists have one obvious trait in common, an exceptional attention to detail.

 

Exquisite craftsmanship is at the heart of a Wendy Drolma mask. Since 1993, this Woodstock artist has been creating uniquely beautiful handmade leather masks that are unrivaled in style and comfort.  Inspired by nature, each mask is brought to life with the utmost attention to detail.  The leather used is imported from Italy where it has been tanned using extracts from vegetable matter such as tree bark and oak leaf.

 

Also in this exhibition, are examples of Wendy’s lifecasting sessions. Lifecasting is an in-person experience that takes place in her studio, where she makes a three-dimensional Plaster of Paris mask of your own unique face and transforms this finished lifecast into a unique piece she calls "Metamorphosis". 

 

The detail within a painting by Paul Andrew Schultz is indescribable. Each characterized form, face and use of color is layered within a single canvas to create an overwhelming feast for the eyes. Growing up in Arkansas he said he was always drawing as a kid and eventually studied oil painting at HVCC and earning an associate's degree in graphic design at Sage Junior College of Albany.

 

Sculptor John Belardo is exhibiting a series of terracotta bozzetti.  A bozzetto is a small maquette or sketch in which ideas are generated for more detailed, larger works. John runs a class at the Art Students League of NY and the New York Academy of Art, where this practice is maintained.  Along with his students, his bozzetti are created as examples while teaching class, where models have taken short poses between 20 minutes and 2 hours. Each piece relies on his knowledge of the human form and an immediate ability to build seemingly effortless forms within these unique constraints.

 

John was educated as a sculptor at the New York Academy of Art and the Newington Cropsey Academy of Art and as an apprentice in the studio of Richard McDermott Miller. With a lengthy list of exhibitions and public commissions, his work is wide-ranging from monumental public installations to intimate creations as shown in this exhibition.

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(images left to right)

Drolma, Owl, plaster, leather, feathers, paint, 13x11, 2025

Schultz, Night and Day, ink, colored pencil on paper, 18x24, 1999

Belardo, Figure Study, terra cotta, 9x9x8, 2025

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