The brilliant red and rich black Summertime Lady, stands in the reflecting pool near Rat’s Restaurnat. The sleek, willowy figure in her clinging scarlet gown is abstracted to highlight the essence of feminine allure and sophistication. David L. Hostetler’s oeuvre is devoted to the subject of women, honoring the female form and paying tribute to her mythological role as earth goddess. He has created works exclusively within the boundaries of this theme for over fifty years. In addition to his preference for realizing sculptures in carved exotic woods or cast bronze, this artist has created many monoprints, some of them studies for subsequent three-dimensional pieces.
Hostetler is represented in public collections at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, the Canton Art Institute in Ohio, and the Speed Museum’s outdoor sculpture garden in Kentucky, for example, as well as in corporate and private collections across the country. He is the author of several books on carving techniques and woodworking. He received his undergraduate degree from Indiana University and then one in fine arts from Ohio University. He returned to Ohio, teaching in the art department for thirty-eight years and later honored by being named Professor Emeritus. He now spends winters on his farm in Athens, Ohio, and summers on the island of Nantucket in Massachusetts, where he and his wife own a gallery.
More information on this artist can be found at www.davidhostetler.com/.
Viewed at the Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton Township, New Jersey.
