Benjamin Victor

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  Published on: 6/18/2009    Last Visited: 6/25/2009  

  Nationally recognized Aberdeen sculptor Ben Victor compared to Rodin
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  "Ben has done some fairly major commissioned work at this very early point in his career, so it's not an unrealistic parallel," she says.
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  "Victor joined the ranks of Michelangelo, Bernini, Daniel Chester French and Maya Lin by receiving his first large commission at only 23 years old," she wrote.
  
  At age 26, Victor became the youngest artist to have a sculpture included in the nation's foremost collection of figurative sculpture, the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C.
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  Raised in Bakersfield, Calif., Victor moved to Ellendale, N.D., to attend Trinity Bible College and play college basketball there with a few other buddies from Bakersfield.
  
  "The school didn't offer art classes, but I kept drawing and painting on my own," Victor said by telephone from his Aberdeen studio. It was his dad who helped him pursue his artistic passion.
  
  "The summer after my first year, I was married with a child on the way," he says. "I called my dad, and he said to just do what I loved. I enrolled in art at Northern in Aberdeen."
  
  He soon discovered that sculpture came easily, so he took it every semester until his 2004 graduation. Victor was helped through school by a scholarship from the National Sculpture Society, with support from his teachers Joel and Ruth McKinney.
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  (A detailed view of Ben Victor's "Delilah," among w)
  
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  What: Reception for a show by Aberdeen sculptor Benjamin Victor

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  Published on: 9/22/2009    Last Visited: 9/22/2009  

  Randy Miller, executive director Taft Chamber of Commerce and member of Oilworker Monument committee; Charlie Beard, site construction chairman of OWM committee; artist Benjamin Victor; and Vic Killingsworth, chairman of OWM committee, look at the site work that has been completed at the monument site, at Sixth Street and Supply Row in Taft. (contributed photo)
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  Artist Benjamin Victor was a recent visitor to the city of Taft to meet with the Oilworker Monument Committee for a discussion of details on the building of the Oilworker Monument to be located in Taft.
  
  Victor is building the monument to honor those men and women who have worked and are at present time employed in the oil industry. Victor and the committee toured the site where the monument will be erected. The 34-foot monument will be made entirely of bronze.

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  Published on: 1/9/2007    Last Visited: 3/14/2009  

  Benjamin Victor Sculpture
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  The work, entitled "Monument to Firefighters," is by South Dakota artist Benjamin Victor. He will be on hand to describe the process he used to create the bronze sculpture and also will give a demonstration.
  
  The city commissioned the sculpture at $65,000 as part of Lawrence's Percent for Art program, which requires the city to dedicate up to 2 percent of the construction costs of a public facility and park land to public art.
  
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  Published on: 11/4/2008    Last Visited: 11/6/2008  

  See the Sculptor Benjamin Victor at Work Creating Boise's Monument to WWII Veterans | More Information
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  See the Sculptor Benjamin Victor at Work Creating Boise's Monument to World War II Veterans
  
  World War II Army Corp Aviator Proposal Model The public is invited to meet sculptor Benjamin Victor, of South Dakota, who is sculpting a larger-than-life size World War II Aviator for Boise Airport. The completed sculpture, to be cast in bronze, is based on an Army Air Corp Aviator who flew out of Gowen Field during World War II. The final work is intended to honor all of our World War II veterans.
  
  Victor will bring the life-size clay figure to the Warhawk Air Museum November 11-21, 2008 so that citizens of Idaho can watch the artist at work on this important commission.
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  Benjamin Victor was selected in February 2008 to create this work by a Selection Panel made up of Jim Tibbs/Boise City Council Member, John (Jack) Kane/Former Boise Airport Commissioner, Richard Young/Boise City Arts & History Commissioner, Francis Fox/Artist and BSU Professor, and Sue Paul/Warhawk Air Museum Director.
  
  The artwork project budget is $90,000 and is funded by Boise Airport as part of Boise's Percent-for-Art program, which integrates art into our civic institutions. The bronze statue will be installed and dedicated in May 2009.
  
  Boise City thanks our event host, Warhawk Air Museum, and artist sponsor The Modern Hotel, which is providing Benjamin Victor's room during his stay.

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  Published on: 4/30/2008    Last Visited: 4/30/2008  

  Tom Vilsack, his wife Christie and sculptor Ben Victor will attend the dedication outside Pioneer Hall.

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  Published on: 12/13/2008    Last Visited: 3/14/2009  

  American News: Ben Victor aims for balance Benjamin Victor Sculpture Article: Ben Victor aims for balance Benjamin Victor Sculpture
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  Ben Victor aims for balance
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  You'll find something at Ben Victor's studio you might not find at other artists' studios.
  
  Make that someone.
  
  Namely, Victor's 5-year-old daughter, Audrey, who sat quietly sculpting one day last week while her dad did the same, albeit on a much bigger scale.
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  "They sure do love coming here," Victor, 29, said with a smile.
  
  Things have changed greatly over the years for Victor, a California native and NSU alum who has turned into an artist in demand nationwide. As his career has grown, so has his family. Victor and his wife, Julie, also have Joshua, 1.
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  Victor said the path his career has taken is the dream of every artist.
  
  But, "Having the family, too - that's really much more important (than work)," he said.
  
  Balancing a successful sculpting career with family life can be demanding, Victor said. But it helps, he said, that his wife is so supportive. And the whole family gets involved.
  
  Besides his budding artists accompanying him to work (Caleb likes to sculpt Hot Wheels cars, his dad said), Victor said they all traveled out to Idaho together last month.
  
  The trip was so Victor could work on his current project, a 7-foot bronze statue of a World War II aviator for the airport in Boise. Julie Victor's parents live in Twin Falls, Idaho, Ben Victor said, so the rest of the family stayed there while Victor worked.
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  While in Boise, Victor spent a lot of time talking to local veterans. One even dressed in authentic gear to model as Victor worked on the statue.
  
  Victor said he wanted to portray a sense of duty and bravery in the bomber pilot's face, but, at the same time, a little apprehension and fear.
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  This week, Victor was working on details and textures. The statue needs to be ready to be cast in bronze by mid-January, he said. The plan is for it to be dedicated Memorial Day.
  
  Victor's next projects include a 16-foot statue to go in front of South Dakota's Capitol building. "Allegory of South Dakota," which includes a life-size bison, would be his largest creation. The plan was for the statue to be dedicated in 2010, but Victor said with the state's budget problems, the project has been pushed back.
  
  But he has plenty of things to keep him busy.
  
  From a biblical figure named Samson to a Native American princess named Sarah, Victor has sculpted a plethora of personalities that have ended up across the sea or right here in Aberdeen.
  
  But to ask which is his favorite isn't fair. Each one is special, he said, and there are things he likes about each.
  
  "(It's) like asking your favorite kid," Victor said, smiling. "I just can't really choose."
  
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  © 2009 Benjamin Victor • (605) 380-4528 • E-mail Benjamin Victor

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  Published on: 9/27/2004    Last Visited: 3/14/2009  

  Benjamin Victor Sculpture
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  Artist Benjamin Victor will be in Carson City next week to put the finishing touches on the sculpture of Indian crusader Sarah Winnemucca, which will hang in the U.S. Capitol's Natural Statuary Hall.
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  © 2009 Benjamin Victor • (605) 380-4528 • E-mail Benjamin Victor

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  Published on: 5/24/2009    Last Visited: 5/24/2009  

  South Dakota artist Benjamin Victor spent months researching and sculpting it. He did some of the work at Nampa's Warhawk Air Museum, where he had access to historical materials and local veterans helped him assure historical accuracy.
  
  Boisean Chet Bowers, a B-17 co-pilot who flew two missions over Normandy on D-Day, let Victor borrow his uniform to use as a model. Bowers didn't train at Gowen Field, but he's pleased that its vets will be honored with a sculpture.
  
  "It's timely," he said.

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  Published on: 3/5/2009    Last Visited: 3/5/2009  

  Sculptor Benjamin Victor had his work cut out for him: One of three finalists, he had three months to construct a scale model for Taft's Oilworker Monument to celebrate the city's 100th anniversary next year.
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  Benjamin Victor
  
  Benjamin Victor, a Taft native and graduate of Bakersfield's Foothill High School who now lives in Aberdeen, S.D., was the artist chosen to build Taft's Oilworker Monument that will be unveiled in October 2010, to celebrate the city's centennial. Here he appears with a clay and wood model at Taft College. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Hosking)
  
  He had to depict a 1910 cable tool drilling rig and workers with historically accurate tools and garb.
  
  "I spent every waking hour working on the model. It's got a lot of detail in it," he said.

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  Benjamin Victor | Winning sculpture will honor Taft's oil history | Read Full Story Winning sculpture will honor Taft's oil history - Today's Paper > Local News | Bakersfield.com - Kern County news, events, shopping & search
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  Sculptor Benjamin Victor had his work cut out for him: One of three finalists, he had three months to construct a scale model for Taft's Oilworker Monument to celebrate the city's 100th anniversary next year.
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  Benjamin Victor
  
  Benjamin Victor, a Taft native and graduate of Bakersfield's Foothill High School who now lives in Aberdeen, S.D., was the artist chosen to build Taft's Oilworker Monument that will be unveiled in October 2010, to celebrate the city's centennial. Here he appears with a clay and wood model at Taft College. (Photo courtesy of Carolyn Hosking)
  
  He had to depict a 1910 cable tool drilling rig and workers with historically accurate tools and garb.
  
  "I spent every waking hour working on the model. It's got a lot of detail in it," he said.

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