Richard Blake - Sculptor
Richard Blake was chosen from a selection of fourteen sculptors who submitted their work to be considered as the design for the Bergen County Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. monument.
He is a master sculptor with over 35 years of success in public-art and sculpture. Blake studied sculpture since the age of nine studying in prestigious art schools throughout the country. He studied independently throughout Central America and Europe. His extraordinary accomplishments have been recognized by the nation’s oldest and most venerated museums and art institutions. He has received the acclaimed Stewardson Prize of Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Meislman Award by the National Academy Museum, the Bettelson Award by the National Academy of Design, the Alex J. Ettl Grant awarded by the National sculpture Society, and the Cavanaugh Memorial Award by the North American Sculpture Society. His work is inducted in the permanent collections of the Architect of the United States Capital and other museums.
Richard is one of a handful of nationally and internationally recognized artists who combine the classical tradition with a humanistic vitality of will and spirit. In Blake’s sculpture he is always seeking to portray the complexity of the human condition; he imbues his figures with stoic, inward expressions that reflect the basic emotions and traits that we all share.
