Keropian Sculpture/ Sculpture Restorations

In 1980, two fellow sculpture students and myself created an antique cast restoration project to restore the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art's collection of plaster sculptures. Thanks to the fine guidance of sculptor instructor Alexander Hromych we restored the Parthenon Frieze, Michelangelo's Slave, Houdon's L'Ecorche, John Paul Jones, and numerous Greek and Roman statues, completing the three year project with the restorations of the Ghiberti Doors. At this time, we were also working as conservation assistants to Virginia Naude and doing sculpture rigging for the P.A.F.A. Museum.

While employed with the Tallix Foundry for ten years, there were many opportunities to work on sculptures that needed a little or major repair. Works by Charles Grafly, Donald Delue, Nathan Rapaport, Walker Hancock, Evangelos Frudakis, and Albert Wein, to name a few.

In 1996, I was asked to restore the National Academy of Design's cast of Houdon's L'Ecorche or "flayed -man". Art Students from around the world have used this figure to study human anatomy for over two centuries.