Human Sculptures by Emil Alzamora

Emil Alzamora was born in Lima, Peru in 1975.

His family moved to Boca Grande, Florida when he was two. He later attended Florida State University where he graduated Magna cum Laude in 1998 earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts. Alzamora harnesses a wide range of materials and techniques to deliver unexpected interpretations of the sculpted human figure. He often distorts, elongates, deconstructs, or encases his forms to reveal an emotional or physical situation, or to tell a story. Alzamora’s keen interest in the physical properties of his materials combined with his hands-on approach allow for the process to reveal and inform at once the aesthetic and the conceptual. Artist statement

The materials Alzamora uses change regularly: gypsum, wood, ceramics, wax. Each informs the figures we meet through Alzamora’s hands.