Sculptures for Purchase

 

All sculptures exhibited through Sculpture Walk Peoria are available for sale. The proceeds from the sale of these works go to benefit both the artist that created them and the future legacy of Sculpture Walk Peoria and the Peoria Art Guild.

Sculptures may be purchased in full or through monthly, quarterly, or annual payments. Sculptures will be available for pick up or delivery in May 2028. At least a 10% nonrefundable deposit is required to hold the sculpture during the duration of the exhibition. For questions related to sculpture purchases please contact executive director, Megan Scott at megans@peoriaartguild.org.

 

Celeste

Chris Plastaid

New Milford, CT
Steel and stainless steel
20'H x 6'W x 6'D

Celeste is a true medley of its surroundings and the climate that moves around it. Celeste's peak spires into a great cloud, and steel worlds are suspended in the air. The weather and climate will intensify each sculpture's properties; the wind can spin the globes and reflect the surroundings, sunlight or moonlight will shine off the globes, and it will glisten in the rain. At night, the solar- powered lights illuminate the sky. All these elements combine to create a more dynamic piece.

The story behind the name of this sculpture is this: Celeste is the middle name of the artist's friends Dave and Diane Littlefield's daughter, Hannah. When Dave and Diane lived separately, Dave in the Bahamas and Diane in Connecticut, each night, they would look up into the celestial sky, making them feel connected even though they were far apart. This sculpture is named after their beautiful daughter and the connection that her wonderful parents have with her.

After the Ball

Josh Urso

Jersey City, NJ
Concrete & Paint
5.67'H x 2'W x 2'D

Josh Urso is a contemporary sculptor working in concrete and stone embellished with paint and various pigments. Urso's sculpture is informed by a fascination with process, the immediacy of cast concrete, and a desire to create monumental forms out of commonplace materials. His deliberate disruption of geometric figures with organic lines emerges from an urge to explore and subvert sculptural forms and viewer expectations. The cracks that suffuse his work are both ornamental and symbolic.

Urso's work is heavily influenced by the natural world and the inherent qualities of the materials he uses. He draws particular inspiration from geology, its stratification, variety, and beauty. His work evokes not only the macro of canyons and riverbeds but also the micro of dried mud and aggregate. Through his work, Urso hopes to preserve his personal memory of encounters with nature, even as erosion, climate change, and our obsession with innovation efface them.

"After the Ball" offers a commentary on the fragility of our environment and the consequences—both ecological and psychological—of constant development. In the ever-changing urban and suburban landscape, constant renewal and transformation reshape neighborhoods through gentrification and development. Through monolithic yet cracked forms, Urso explores the tension between stability and transformation, celebrating the raw beauty of the imperfect while encouraging reflection on our journey through an evolving world.

Coral Snake Fire Swirl

Robert Sunderman

Ames, IA
Stainless steel with powder coat
7'10"H x 3'6"W x 4'4"D

Trees and fire are Robert Sunderman's creative endeavors and life. Sunderman draws energy, insight and inspiration from the tree’s skeletal structures, shapes and textures. The energy of fire is both destructive, regenerative and sustains life.

This sculpture is a combination of the fire and a burnt-out tree trunk. They are both so important to life and the cycle of the environment. They are strong, powerful and the backbone of all things that breath. Sunderman receives inspiration from both and repurposes them to give them importance and a new life.

"Coral Snake Fire Swirl" is part of a metal tree/fire series of sculpture. The public sculpture is made from stainless steel sheets and powder coated with color. These are cut using either water jet or laser cutting quipment, shaped with a rollers and welded together. "Coral Snake Fire Swirl" is named because of its color bands and the two swirl fire sections. The idea is that it is dangerous and hot to touch but beautiful at the same time. It celebrates: movement, energy, renewal and strength.

The Feathers Three

Kirk Seese

Lutherville Timonium, MD
Steel, MDO board, UV inks
14'H x 6'W x 6'D

Kirk Seese is a visual artist specializing in large scale murals and public sculpture. From facilitating community mural projects to desining multi-million-dollar indoor climbing gyms, seese has public sculptures and murals located in 37 states and Canada.

"The Feathers Three" is a cluster of Kirk's debut sculpture, "The Feather", from 2019, after designing climbing walls for 5 years, and operating a mural business in the MD/DC/VA metro area for 20 years. Kirk wanted to create something that was not representational. Something unique, art for arts sake.

Solarion Web Solaric Bloom in Yellow's Duration

Orion Richey

Creve Coeur, IL
Forged and fabricated steel, bolted joints, and painted polyurethane yellow
5.1'H x 6.9'W x 4.6'D

Solarion Web is constructed from a single five-arm spiral motif repeated seven times at varying scales. The largest spiral forms the structural base, while similar perforated steel spirals are bolted to it, radiating outward and inward and intertwining to create a recursive, web-like form.

The title Solarion Web refers to a solar condition of light receptivity and activity. The color yellow and the perforated spiral elements are open to light. They receive and transmit light, allowing illumination to move through the form rather than merely striking its surface. In this way Solarion Web processes light, casting shadows, shifting textures, and extending the recursive geometry of the spirals into the surrounding space.

 

Northern Spiral

Joel Washing

Toledo, OH
Steel
9'6"H x 4'W x 4'D

Joel Washing has a deep need to create physical, tangible objects and uses geometric shapes and patterns to reveal the beauty woven into all things: the curve of a leaf, the orbit of a planet, the structure of distant galaxies.

Washing is an award-winning sculptor and welder who after a career in filmmaking, discovered a new creative path in 2010 through the transformative process of welding. What began as curiosity quickly ignited into passion, leading him to study sculptural welding at the Toledo Museum of Art and earn an associate degree in welding from Owens Community College. Joel's work blends industrial precision with artistic vision, often exploring geometry, pattern, and the poetic possibilities of steel.

"Northern Spiral" is a larger-than-life steel sculpture capturing the graceful motion of a falling maple seed. Designed to spin on an axis, it echoes the mesmerizing spiral descent of samaras drifting from a tree. Finished with a rich rust patina, the surface evokes the natural hues of the mature maple seeds.


Resurgence

Lionel Dean

London, UK
Fiberglass
7.2'H x 2.4'W x 2.4'D
In an era marked by disruption—climatic, societal, and personal—"Resurgence" is a sculptural expression of collective endurance, transformation, and hope. Rising flame-like, the work symbolizes vitality, courage, and the powerful spark of renewal that emerges from struggle. It draws on the universal human impulse to recover from adversity and to rise—stronger, wiser, and more connected.

The sculpture’s layered symbolism and dynamic form serve as a space for contemplation and connection. It affirms that from adversity, communities can rise—not just intact, but transformed, unified, and empowered.

Resurgence is 3D printed from recycled plastic and wrapped in a structural coating of glass reinforced plastic in a technique akin to that of surfboard construction. The geometric freedom of additive manufacture provides an other-worldly form whilst the fibreglass encapsulation, an established methodology in the marine environment ensures stability, strength and weather resistance.

 

Reflection

Gedion Nyanhongo

Fostoria, OH and Phoenix, AZ
Stone
5.8'H x 3'W x 3'D

Through sculpture, one gains insight into Gedion Nyanhongo's heritage, the Shona People of Zimbabwe, Africa and its rich culture. Nyanhongo's sculptures focus on the things that collectively make up the bigger picture – life, love, and the sensations that define us all. They celebrate love, especially family love and the spiritual power it provides to promote peace in his art.

Nyanhongo uses traditional hand carving techniques used for generations by the Shona tribe of Zimbabwe. He exclusively use indigenous stone mined in Zimbabwe, serpentine, spring stone, opal, which he imports to the United States.

Nyanhongo creates each piece over many, many hours, completely by hand, using traditional tools and only by himself. Over the years Nyanhongo has become even more discerning in creating sculptures that advance the Shone Stone Sculpture Movement into the 21st century, whilst maintaining a bridge reaching back to the rich series and culture of his ancestors.

Two of Nyanhongo's other works are on permanent display at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, and a life size Zebra sculpture at the Phoenix Zoo.