duane mickelson
artist's statement
Duane Mickelson
A native Minnesotan, Duane Mickelson has been making sculpture for over 30
years. A reviewer describes his sculpture in the following manner: "His
works typically explore the boundaries between human imagination, invented
culture, and natural form, with many of the sculptures depicting
fantastically hybrid figures that witness to the bases in phenomenal
nature of the human capacity both to create and destroy." Mickelson works
in bronze, welded steel, found wood and mixed media. His sculptures have
received numerous regional and national awards and are in the collections
of colleges, universities, and regional museums in the Midwest; and
private collections in the Midwest, Colorado, East and West coasts. He has
completed a number of commissioned projects, both secular and liturgical.
Mickelson has degrees from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. and the
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks and is currently an associate
professor of art at Concordia College, Moorhead. He is a member of the
International Sculpture Center and the Society of Minnesota Sculptors.
A native Minnesotan, Duane Mickelson has been making sculpture for over 30
years. A reviewer describes his sculpture in the following manner: "His
works typically explore the boundaries between human imagination, invented
culture, and natural form, with many of the sculptures depicting
fantastically hybrid figures that witness to the bases in phenomenal
nature of the human capacity both to create and destroy." Mickelson works
in bronze, welded steel, found wood and mixed media. His sculptures have
received numerous regional and national awards and are in the collections
of colleges, universities, and regional museums in the Midwest; and
private collections in the Midwest, Colorado, East and West coasts. He has
completed a number of commissioned projects, both secular and liturgical.
Mickelson has degrees from Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn. and the
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks and is currently an associate
professor of art at Concordia College, Moorhead. He is a member of the
International Sculpture Center and the Society of Minnesota Sculptors.
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