New Sculpture "Achilles” Added to Sculpture Park
The sculpture "Achilles" by Peter Allen has been added to the Sculpture Park on the City Hal campus.
Peter Allen is an outdoor sculpture artist. He is a resident of Morristown, NJ and alumni of Brandeis University and School of the Visual Arts. After receiving training at Johnson Atelier in Hamilton, NJ as a foundry apprentice where in afterhours he made his own sculptures and worked with the bronzes of Louise Bougeoise, Joel Shapiro, George Segal, Issac Witkin and Seward Johnson during work hour, he has had numerous art exhibits and also has taught and lectured.
His figures in landscapes as a sculptor and painter have been a lifelong passion. He continues to keep making new art by remaining close to form and nature through modelling wax and clay figures and welding cast bronze into stone constructions at his Morristown studio.
The sculpture piece of “Achilles” is in bronze. It reflects the part of the ancient Greek epic poem of “The Illiad” by Homer in which Achilles no longer wants to fight any battles and stays on the ship and in a cave with the sculptor god, Hephaestus. He is rocked by the waves while singing songs of lamentation. Peter Allen depicts “Achilles” in his sculpture as the fleet footed artist overlooked for his heroism who chooses to be sidelined as he awaits inspiration. He has been given a bronze wave that crashes over him and cocoons him like rocks in a cave or the memories he has been caught up in.
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