Oleg Lobykin
Oleg Lobykin (Russian, b. 1966) is a sculptor who works in a variety of materials from stone to wood, bronze, composite materials and stainless steel. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Lobykin now resides in Silicon Valley and also specializes in the restoration of landmark architecture and sculpture. He began his career as a master stone carver, honing his skills in one of the oldest forms of artistic expression. His work is inspired by nature and the life force behind it. It shows his fascination with a harmony of contradictions between chaos and order, darkness and light, negative and positive. He explores how they’re interconnected, how they can stay in balance, and how the meaning of thought or beauty can take shape in physical form. His work is a search for the roots where and how form is born, gets a soul, and begins life on its own. The combination of space and lines varying in size, angles, directions and complexity creates the form. Space + Line = Form. Lobykin exhibits in the San Francisco Bay Area and has completed a number of projects in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Japan. Clients have included Stanford University, The Presidio Trust, The City of Cupertino, The City of San Jose, Cathedral Stoneworks Inc., The Denver Public Library, Yale University, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Cloisters), The Cathedral Church St. John the Divine, The Jewish Museum NYC, Alabama Limestone Co., & Artists and Architects.
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