The Collection Series: In Search of Gallery Representation: 29 Carvings Sold,1 Gifted, 37 For Sale

My Collection Series Marble Sculpture was Carved to be Light, Portable and Fully Emerged in the Real World

Unlike traditional stone sculpture of similar dimension that can weigh hundreds of pounds and may only be moved with the assistance of heavy lifting gear, my revolutionary Colorado Yule Marble Collection Series was carved to be picked up and carried, allowing easy movement from one vantage point to the next.

Employing the experience and skills gained through years of professional architectural stone carving, where exact standards and precise techniques are the order of the day, I have perfected the skills necessary to carve marble to extraordinary standards of precision and accuracy, resulting in the 67 sculptures of my Collection Series.

The series was sculpted in Woody Creek, three miles from Aspen, utilizing offcuts and marble from the nearby Yule marble quarry located at 9,300 feet above sea level outside of the town of Marble, Colorado. Much of this surplus material was cast aside in the rush for blocks large enough to provide the massive drums for the Lincoln Memorials huge columns.

The collection’s signature bowls developed as I strove to combine form with function in order to display the remarkable quality of the stone itself; Yule being created by contact metamorphism, an extremely rare type of marble superior to that of regional metamorphism in that it was transformed from limestone into marble at much higher temperatures that create a translucent effect when carved as thinly as the bowl’s walls demand.

To date I have sold 29 carvings, gifted 1, leaving 37 remaining for sale. Each sculpture carries a serial number engraved on the underside of the base, along with my mason’s mark. They all possess their own web page located right here at martincooney.com, to be found in the header above via the various gallery tabs.

Now, I am seeking gallery representation in order to sell the rest. What I am looking for is to present the remaining Collection Series sculptures in their entirety, or as many as is feasible, in order to present the work with context.

If you are a gallery owner/curator and are interested in presenting a truly unique body of work, please contact me to discover more.

My email is martincooneysculptor@gmail.com,

and my phone number is 970 319 1070.

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Here are a few links to the various galleries pertaining to The Collection Series:

https://martincooney.com/category/the-67-collection-series-marble-sculptures/

https://martincooney.com/category/collection-series-marble-sculpture-sold/

https://martincooney.com/category/collection-series-marble-sculpture-for-sale/

About Colorado Yule Marble

And now, here are a few photos of The Collection Series Marble Sculpture that has sold:

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'Beached Boat' Hand Carved Colorado Yule Marble Bowl by Martin Cooney

Nessie / Autumn of 14 Collection / Colorado Yule Marble / Sculpture 2

First Pictures of Maypole atop New Plinth, 15 September 2017 Aspen Colorado

Maypole, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

Mystique Masque, 1314 Winter Collection, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

'The Demure One', Colorado Yule Marble, The Maiden Collection by Martin Cooney at martincooney.com

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And here are the remaining Collection Series sculptures still available to display.

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'Salt of the Earth' Sculpted Marble Mask by MARTIN COONEY

'Girl in the Moon' Sculpted Marble Mask by MARTIN COONEY

Girl in the Moon, Salt of the Earth (The Twins )

'Polar Trout', Autumn of 14 Collection by Martin Cooney

'No Strings Attached' Hand Carved Marble Bowl by Martin Cooney

'No Strings Attached', Autumn of 14 Collection by Martin Cooney

'San Rocchino Bowl', Autumn of 14 Collection, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

'San Rocchino' Hand carved Marble Bowl by Martin Cooney

'Ice Boat', Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney, Woody Creek, CO

Wolf Man Jack, 1314 Winter Collection, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

'Birth of a Guin', 1314 Winter Collection, Colorado Yule Marble Sculture by MARTIN COONEY

'Industrial Evolution', 1314 Winter Collection, Colorado YUle Marble Sculpture by MARTIN COONEY

'Finger Bowl' by MARTIN COONEY, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture, 1314 Winter Collection

Cat Walk, Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

$3,200 Inner Strength 7x10x47", Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

'Inner Strength', 1314 Winter Collection. Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by MARTIN COONEY

Lemonworld, The 1314 Winter Collection, Colorado Yule Marble Sculpture by Martin Cooney

'On The Cusp', 1314 Winter Collection, Marble Sculpture by MARTIN COONEY

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Thank you for scrolling all the way to this point, all that remains is to sum up my signature Collection Series Marble Sculpture with a few words regarding my motivation in carving 67 lumps of Colorado Yule marble rough blocks into the sculpture you have just reviewed.

Having carved many tons of stone during the past 23 years, much of it commercial architectural masonry, entrance signs, fireplaces and the like as a banker mason, I more than anyone am acutely aware of the impracticalities concerning the sheer amount of weight involved with projects of any size. Therefore, it was my intention from the start to bring marble sculpture into the modern world by utilizing modern tools and equipment to sculpt original concepts into portable artwork that may easily be picked up and moved around in a similar manner to practically every other kind of sculpture you can think of.

So, by using the ‘direct method’ first devised by the great Constantin Brancusi, I set about carving in a similar manner, but with weight reduction a top priority so as to minimize the difficulties in handling such a body of work. And in doing so, I soon discovered the amazing properties held within the Colorado Yule marble itself, and gradually perfected the art of carving it so thinly that light permeated the carving in a manner I had never seen before. Which in turn set me on a course of producing work that I titled ‘Curvilinear’. And the rest, as they say, is history.

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