Boback Emad
"Standing Figure"
35028
"Boback 1"
99999
"Boback 2"
99999
"Boback 3"
99999
"Boback 4"
99999
"Boback 5"
99999
"Boback 6"
99999
"Boback 7"
99999
"Boback 8"
99999
"Vallarta Moon"
2266
"Aouy Moon"
7 ft.
3047
"Dancing with a Dream"
Maquette
3051
"Cardinal"
2622
"Rendezvous"
2623
"Heaven and Earth"
2607
"Portrait of a Sculptor"
2593
"Reclining Figure"
2594
"Column II"
3049
"Looking for Noguchi"
3052
"Vallarta Moon (maquette)"
2606
"Dancing by the Light of the Moon"
3051
"Cartwheel"
2210
"Mobile I"
1533
"Huh!"
2213
"Stone Head"
2211
"Blue Eye"
2212
"Dorud"
Available at I Wolk Gallery, St. Helena, CA
"Spirit"
9ft hi x 5ft wide x 3ft deep
"SeeingColumn"
"Bird Bath"
"Angel Chair"
"Separation"
City of Loveland, CO
Purchased through the Loveland Arts Council
"Yes and No"
"Astronomer"
"CeeNN"
2269
"Continuous Movement I"
5 h x 6 w x 1d Steel and stainless. Painted. The composition is a 3-d exploration of the moment of inspiration. The space created by the piece is as important as the object itself. The way the geometry's continue into void create a sense of continuous movement. Private collect California 2002 Sold
"Continuos Movement II"
(Rigid rectangle series) (Santiago smoking) Steel Finish: brown, black and silver6 H x 4 W 18 D Rusted Steel. The series involved a strong vertical rectangle (representing a rigid stillness) and the movement comes from the drama of curve to the straight. This piece reminds me of Benito Santiago smoking a cigar. Private collect California 2002 SOLD.
"Begging for More"
SteelFinish: black and silver30 H x 12 W 9 D Steel. (Painted) 2003. $1800
Named Skater Steel Finish: Black and silver 28 H x 14 W 14 D This piece is from a series that builds on the composition of the rigid rectangle series. In this group the base for rigidity is tilted slightly. That tilt starts the motion from the base. The slow and fast curves balance the top. 2003 $2500
"Composition"
Steel Finish: black and silver25 H x 25 W x 25 D (some Bank in Seattle, WA)The second piece in the tilted rectangle series. This one has a aeronautic feel from the strong horizontal. 2003 SOLD
"Sophia"
SteelFinish: silver 6 H x 20 W 4 D SOLD
"Portrait of my Uncle"
Steel Finish: silver 33 H x 9 W 9 D $2200
"Composition 1"
5h x 1/2 w x 1/2d Galvanized Steel. This piece was made in Puerto Vallarta Mex. The swirling afternoon winds and the smoke from distant fires were my inspiration. 2003
"Composition"
COMPOSITION 28h x 13 w x 8d Steel. This piece is the first study model for a series of 6 which I plan on building in Puerto Vallarta, Mex. The Pieces will be made of 1/2 thick. Rolled Stainless Steel and will stand 5 7 tall. They are inspired by the carpet sellers on the beach who continually fold and un-fold their carpets to encourage sales. 2003
"Red Eye"
SteelFinish: glossy bright colors 4 H x4 W 4 D SOLD Portland OR.
"Bicycle Rider"
Steel Finish: glossy bright colors 48 H x 18W x 18 D This Mobile spins down the metal spiral slide at the top. Its a 15 second ride down from the top. 1999 $1,600
"Composition"
53h x 36 w x 24d Galvanized Steel. Paint Mobile 1999 Sold
"Composition with Circles and Arches"
36h x 16 w x 14d Galvanized Steel. Paint Mobile 2003 Sold
"Why"
Steel and Stainless Steel Finish: black and silver 6 H x 3 W x 1 D $3,500
"Mother"
Steel Finish: silver 20 H x 22 W x 8 D SOLD Weinstien Collection Kirkland WA.
"Leaning on You"
Steel and Stainless Steel Finish: black and silver 6 H x 3 W x 1 D $12,000
"High Tide"
Stainless steel Finish: black and silver 9 H x 3 W x 2 D On loan to Spokane Museum of art
"Going"
Steel Finish: black and silver 25 H x 25 W x 25 D SOLD ( Seattle, WA)
"Pendulum"
Stainless Steel Finish: silver 9 H x 5 W 1 D Donation to Childrens Hospital Bellevue, WA
"Aiming High mini"
Mini Stainless Steel Finish: silver24 H x 21 W 1 6 $3500
"Reflections"
Steel and Stainless Steel Finish: black and silver 10 H x 3 W x 2 D. SOLD Spokane Museum of Art. Spokane, WA
"Sentinel"
Stainless Steel Finish: silver106 H x 3 W x 3 D SOLD Permanent installation at Montgomery Park, Portland, OR
"Tilt and Swivel"
Steel and Stainless Steel Finish: black and silver 66 H x 5 W x 1 D $9,800
"Aiming High"
Stainless Steel Finish: silver 14 H x 6 W x 1 D $12,200
"Tangerine Moon"
Steel and Stainless Steel Finish: black and silver 56 H 6 W x 1 D On loan to ONeal Collection Sun Valley, Idaho
"Mobile III"
Steel Finish: glossy bright colors
"Mobile IV"
Steel Finish: Painted black SOLD Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
"Round is the Shape of My Heart"
Steel Finish: glossy black and white 6 H x 4 W 18 D SOLD Logan Collection. Santa Rosa, CA
Both
sculptor and architect, Boback lives and works in Northern California as well as
in other project-specific locations. Although he has practiced as an artist for
many years, his formal emergence as a sculptor is relatively recent.
His sculpture suggests mechanical forms that take on Hero images. Sentinels,
acrobats, and forms in motion that communicate arrested movement
Your sculpture work is so graceful and elegant and at the same time powerfully energizing and inspiring to encounter. But their full meaning is only for a few who can elevate themselves to its higher level.
Artist statement:
I work in steel for its malleability and the freedom that comes from it. The limits of the material are wide open and they work well with my sensibilities. There is a quickness and directness that other materials like stone and bronze do not have. The history of steel sculpture is a youthful and developing one with out the weight of history. It is strong and unburdened by the dogma of the past.
Creativity is spontaneousseldom a straight path from one point to another. Ideas can come from anywhere and anything. I could be cutting a piece of steel and I see something in the piece Im cutting. Or a piece could drop on the floor next to another and a conversation begins. In my work the first decision is often random, its the second and third decision that introduce the artist as the translator of the conversation.
At times sculpture is like a dance where straight is dancing with curve, or fast is holding hands with slow. They work out their differences together.
I get a great deal of inspiration from my daughter Sophia and my son Dario. They possess a freedom and fluidity in thought and movement that seems limitless. They approach each moment with endless exuberance.
I hope my work shows my respect for the foundation built by Julio Gonzalez, David Smith, Alexander Calder and Mark Di Suvero. They have laid a platform from which my generation of sculptors will stand & jump.
"MY
WORK ALLOWS ME TO EXPLORE THE DYNAMIC DRAMA
BETWEEN 3-D OBJECTS AND SHADOWS IN TOTAL MOTION."
Toledo, Ohio, 1963
EDUCATION
California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, CA., B. Arch., 1988
SOLO SHOWS
1988 Lynnias Cafι Gallery, San Luis Obispo, CA
1994 Wolf Cafι, Santa Rosa, CA
2003 McMullen, Seattle, WA
GROUP EXHIBITION
2001 Sonoma County Arts Council, Santa Rosa, CA
2002 Galleria Dante, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Childrens Hospital Seattle, WA
Spokane Museum of Art, Spokane, WA
Montgomery Park, Portland, OR
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
San Luis Obispo, California
Porto Vallarta, Mexico
Santa Rosa, California
Tiburon, California
Larkfield, California
Portland, Oregon
Kirkwood, Washington
Sun Valley, Idaho
UPCOMING SHOWS
Oct. 2-Nov 2, 2003 Gottlieb Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Apr.3-May1, 2004
Galleria Dante, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico