Jack Brendlinger: Retrospective
Bronze sculpture by Jack Brendlinger
“Now in my late eighties, I have had the most wonderful experience in creating all kinds of art, watercolors, acrylic painting, drawings, murals, ceramics and of course, my main love: sculpture.”
Carbondale Arts presented a new solo retrospective exhibition of Jack Brendlinger’s sculptural works which opened on Thursday, September 12, from 6-8pm at the R2 Gallery located inside The Launchpad, at 76 S 4th Street in Carbondale.
Jack’s bronze sculptures are produced with the lost wax technique. With age, his work has become abstract, gravity defying, modern, and filled with whimsical characters. Now in his late eighties, Jack has had the most wonderful experience in creating all kinds of art, watercolors, acrylic painting, drawings, murals, ceramics and, of course, his main love: sculpture. In the past, Jack was a very active individual full of all the energies of life and his sculptures are a direct reflection of the excitement and pleasures of those robust activities.
This exhibition opened the same evening as “Etar’s Fashionable Life“. Both shows were on display at the R2 Gallery through October 4, 2019.
Jack Brendlinger,
Sculptor, Carbondale, CO
Jack Brendlinger is a fifth generation Coloradan who was born in Denver and graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in marketing. He moved to Aspen in 1964 and with his wife, Marsha.
Jack is an accomplished artist and sculptor, with over 300 bronze pieces and 100 paintings worldwide in the collections of several prominent art collectors. He was commissioned in 1991 by Rotary and the City of Aspen to complete a life-sized bust of Thomas Sardy, an Aspen civic leader and founder of the Aspen Airport. The piece is now on display in the airport terminal building.