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DESCRIPTION:Charlie Kaplan will be giving a Brown Bag Lunch presentation on
  Friday\, January 29 at noon. His talk is entitled “The Tradition of Marbl
 e: How it is Quarried and the Culture of the Artisans—A View from Carrara 
 with Sculptor Charlie Kaplan.”Charlie Kaplan is a Los Angeles based sculpt
 or whose work focuses on non-representational\, three-dimensional forms. S
 hortly after graduating from the University of California\, Berkeley\, Kap
 lan found an abandoned piece of Douglas fir in a parking lot\, which he br
 ought home and instinctively started carving. After a decade of experiment
 ing with different types of wood and other material\, Kaplan enrolled in t
 he University of California\, Los Angeles Extension and took sculpting cou
 rses in stone\, alabaster\, and marble. Starting in 1995\, and continuing 
 for an additional five years\, Kaplan attended a month-long marble sculpti
 ng course in Pietrasanta\, Italy\, taught by artist Lynne Streeter. The ex
 perience of carving marble in a town not more than ten miles from Carrara\
 , known for its marble quarries\, was the proverbial tipping point for Kap
 lan. In 2009\, the city of Pietrasanta installed one of his sculptures on 
 the public pier. In 2013\, Kaplan had a solo exhibition at PYO Gallery in 
 Los Angeles.At Bard Graduate Center\, Kaplan will discuss a variety of sto
 nes and their properties in relation to how this natural resource is used 
 in architecture and for decorative purposes\, including sculpture. Kaplan 
 will explore the culture of both the marble quarries and the community of 
 artisans in Carrara from historical and contemporary perspectives.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Tradition of Marble
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