The online portfolio of sculptor Ginger Updegrave

Biography:

Ginger Updegrave-Truesdell is a fourth generation Oregonian who was inspired by a grandmother who worked in clay. Ginger owned a ceramic business in Eugene before earning an art degree at the University of Oregon . With a background already in ceramics and sculpture, she extended her reach by majoring in painting and drawing.
In developing her career, Ginger often sought travel for inspiration and generation of original thought. Explorations have produced oil paintings of the Seri Indians of Sonora, Mexico, and confirmation of the authenticity of her porcelain painting technology from the masters in China. After exploring many mediums, she has come full circle back to her original love of sculpture working primarily in clay and bronze.
Ginger's art is an expression of form combining the strength of structural balance with the grace of flowing lines. She is influenced by classic and oriental sculpture, and passionately intrigued with Art Nouveau. She currently works out of her studio on the Umpqua River near Roseburg , Oregon.

Artist's Statement:

My eye sees color, but my mind is colorless. I am relentlessly focused on form; fascinated with its beauty and intrigued with its mystery. When I create a three dimensional piece, I feel like I am touching the universe. I am working with the space the form uses, the space around the form, and the spaces it creates within itself.
Form is real; it is touchable. It has solidity, strength and structure; yet it can be fragile. It has texture that undulates beneath your fingers and gives variety to the visual world. Form has no beginning and no end; it continually draws you to the other side to discover the unknown or to seek the familiar. In doing so, it shows you many views, many faces, and at the same time a silhouette. Form has life; it has "body language", a statement, a presence, and a soul. The truth to form is that it has freedom; freedom to be what it is.
I feel it is a privilege to create form and I am addicted to the process:
The original visualization, the challenge, the transformation of the art piece, the excitement, and then the fulfillment. The pure love of it all.

"Is not a glimpse of happiness a foretaste of nirvana?"

Paul Gaugan

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