Ralph Helmick
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Class: |
1970 |
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School: |
South High School |
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Inducted: |
2024 |
Ralph Helmick - Internationally Acclaimed Sculptor – Class of 1970
Ralph Helmick is an award-winning sculptor and public artist whose work can be seen at over 50 institutions across the United States and overseas, including courthouses, parks, airports, schools, hospitals, forensics laboratories and museums.
Nearly all of his sculptures speak to the intersection of art and science: Distance and perception, optical mechanics, retinal consolidation, and other visual phenomena are employed towards bold esthetic ends.
Recent projects include Disorders of Magnitude [Portrait of Werner Heisenberg] for the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, Schwerpunkt for the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT, and The Constellation, a national monument honoring Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the late founder of the United Arab Emirates.
Helmick graduated with a degree in American Studies from the University of Michigan, later studied at the Skowhegan School of Sculpture, and earned his MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, Boston.