Who is Stephen De Staebler?

Stephen De Staebler (March 24, 1933 – May 13, 2011) was an internationally highly praised American sculptor, best credited for his proceed in clay and bronze. Totemic and fragmented in form, De Staebler’s figurative sculptures call forth the many contingencies of the human condition, such as resiliency and fragility, growth and decay, earthly boundedness and the possibility for spiritual transcendence. An important figure in the California Clay Movement, he is ascribed with “sustaining the symbolic tradition in post-World War II decades with the relevance and even possibility of embracing the human figure seemed problematic at best.”