SAN FRANCISCO, CA.- Dolby Chadwick Gallery announces an exhibition of bronze sculptures by the late artist Stephen De Staebler (March 1933 – May 2011). Made during the last two years of De Staebler’s life, the sculptures featured in this exhibition are indicative of the aesthetic themes and concerns that run throughout this accomplished artist’s oeuvre. Having worked primarily in clay for the first part of his career, De Staebler began experimenting with bronze during the late 1970s. Rather than viewing the two mediums as mutually exclusive, clay’s organic and malleable qualities exerted an undeniable influence upon De Staebler’s innovative approach to casting. The first step in his process was to cast into bronze hundreds of fragments of arms, legs, wings, and “earth forms” originally made from clay and wax. From this library of bronze fragments he was then, by means of assemblage, fre