Mr. Richard Webber

Sculptor
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Richard Webber is a sculptor who uses blacksmithing, metal forming techniques, and patination to create sculpture and custom designed metal fixtures for a diverse clientel. His sculpture studio, Museum Productions, Inc. has been located in the East Village section of New York City since 1995.

In addition to his own sculpture, Richard has fabricated art metal pieces for other New York City artists including Heidi Fashnacht, Lisa Hoke, Carol Hepper, and Michael Lucero. He has created pieces for fashion designer, Tahari; developed artifact mounts for the Connecticut Historical Society; and designed fossil mounts for the American Museum of Natural History. His current commission by the Florida Museum of Natural History is to create fossil mounts, skeletal mounts, and sculptural representations of specimens in steel.

Originally from Washington DC, Richard studied sculpture at the Corcoran School of Art. He opened his first studio in Georgetown where he sold his fiberglass sculptures, wood and stone carvings to private collectors. In 1984, Webber relocated to New York where he was employed in several art foundries while studying portrait and figure modeling at the New York Academy of Art. In the foundries, he had the opportunity to work with Isamu Nagucci, Frank Stella, and Nancy Graves. He also assembled and finished bronze castings by Rodin, Giacometti, and Brancusi. He soon developed his own clientel of New York City artists and in 1988 opened his second studio in Brooklyn, New York. In 1992 he was asked to join a team of sculptors hired by the American Museum of Natural History to re-create and re-articulate their fossil collections. Collaborating with museum curators and Ralph Appelbaum & Associates, Richard created sculptural presentations combining fossil material and forged metal. This combination of elements continues to influence his work.