About the Artist: Michael Pavlovsky

Born in Dover, Delaware, in 1957, Michael Pavlovsky began his artistic pursuits as a student of painting and sculpture under Patrick Carter in 1972. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Landscape Architecture from Texas A & M University in 1982, and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in-Sculpture from the University of North Texas in 1990.

Michael's work has been included in over eighty juried and invitational exhibitions. His most notable work was a commission to create a sculpture to serve as the central metaphor for the National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis, Tennessee. Movement to Overcome was in place for the opening of that museum, constructed on the site of the Lorraine Motel, site of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination.

In 1993, Michael was commissioned by the City of Dallas to create a site-specific sculpture for the Middle Five-Mile Creek Art Project for which he received an Urban Design Award from the City of Dallas Urban Design Committee. In 1999, he was commissioned by the City of Grapevine, Texas, to create a veterans memorial, consisting of two large bronze sculptures. Situated on the grounds of the historic Grapevine train depot, Coming Home and its companion Military Arch-~comprised of meaningful historic imagery and text-~was dedicated on Memorial Day, 2000.

In 2001, the artist completed a commission for the Hall Financial Group in Frisco, Texas, three large bronze wall panels entitled Perseverance and Compassion, as well as bronze representations of the 14 Stations of the Cross commissioned by St. John's Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, Texas. Further, in June of that year, the Fort Worth Botanic Garden unveiled a large bronze by Michael, Birth of Love, commissioned by the Fort Worth Garden Club.

In the spring of 2002, a monumental bronze likeness of Julius Schepps, a memorial commissioned by the City of Dallas and the Schepps family, was unveiled in downtown Dallas in the Julius Schepps Memorial Park.

The Artist About His Work:

"Artists have an innate need to express and to create. We are fortunate when life allows us to pursue this calling. Sculpture is a lifelong passion for me. I would not want to do anything else. It is the most compelling and beautiful form of artistic expression."

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