1. Zenos Frudakis was born on July 7,1951 and is an American sculptor whose diverse body of work includes monuments, memorials, portrait busts and statues of living and historic individuals, military subjects, sports figures and animal sculpture.
12 Facts About Zenos Frudakis
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Zenos Frudakis was born to Greek-American parents, and was raised primarily in Northwestern Indiana, with the exception of several years in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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In 1972, Zenos Frudakis moved to Philadelphia to study at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.
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Zenos Frudakis studied painting privately with Prix de Rome winner James Hanes.
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From 1977 to 1983, he attended the University of Pennsylvania, where Zenos Frudakis earned bachelor's and master's degrees in Fine Arts.
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Together they began a gallery and ran Zenos Frudakis Studio, located in center city Philadelphia.
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Zenos Frudakis continued sculpting commissions with an emphasis on the figure and the portrait, as demonstrated in his many monumental works, individual portrait statues and busts, and bas-reliefs.
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Zenos Frudakis created sculptures of living and historic individuals that express the character and vitality of his subjects while capturing an accurate likeness.
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Zenos Frudakis has been commissioned to create bronze portrait busts, statues, and monuments of significant figures from the sports world, including golf, baseball, hockey and boxing.
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Zenos Frudakis has sculpted a wide range of subject matter in bronze, stainless steel and clay, including monuments, memorial, portrait busts, statues, military, sports, animals, people and historic figures.
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One of Zenos Frudakis's first commissions was a statue of Philadelphia mayor and police commissioner Frank Rizzo, unveiled in 1999.
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The back surface of the sculpture's wall includes additional elements that Zenos Frudakis calls the "Other Side of Freedom".