About the Work : Rosenberg’s Innovative Techniques

In 1983, while fabricating in his studio he laid a piece of galvanized metal on top of a tub of adhesive. An hour later the fumes from the silicone had etched a vague three-dimensional effect in the metal. Rosenberg played with the metal through the night arriving at the following approach which has remained a signature technique in his work: The surface is flat. The medium is metal; The illusion is the treatment of the surface whereby it appears not to have surface boundaries. Instead that which is flat appears to have an illusive depth which changes as the light or the viewer moves. “As a sculptor, I create these illusions, experiential illusions which trigger interactive participation with the audience. The aluminum is transformed into soft, organic energized images through a complex system of machining the metal with a variety of interlocking lines which refract light through a constantly changing array of angles. The surfaces appear deeply three-dimensional and holographic.” GALLERIES

In 1973 Herb Rosenberg needed an armature upon which wax could be melted to enable him to have the human body speak.  He discovered that by drying banana peels, manipulating the dried forms in space and then dunking the desired shape in molten wax he had an inner structure. He then painstakingly  hand worked each ‘banana’  into a finished concept which would   be cast  directly into bronze and used as models for large outdoor installations. GALLERIES