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John Lopez Hybrid Metal Art and Bronze Sculpture
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After losing his Aunt Effie in a tragic car accident, John went home to the family ranch and helped design the family cemetery in which his aunt would be buried. After some experimentation, he finished a gate into the cemetery, and
then made a small angel peering over the top of the gate. The project
gave him much personal satisfaction, and everyone was amazed
at the results. A new career path was born in that cemetery.
He began to assemble wild life and ranch animals in the area from a multitude of objects found around the ranch. Uncle Geno opened his home and welding shop to Lopez, who completed a
fence around the cemetery, then ran out of material. The ranch is 35
miles from the nearest town, so he went looking through
the scrap iron on site.
Not
wanting to depart from his bronze casting expertise, John found a way to
merge the two art forms into a new hybrid sculpture of everyday objects
mixed with limited edition bronze castings. Hybrid Metal Art, a
sculptural fusion of figurative and funk, a blend of iron and bronze.
