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...University's first and only studio professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Brooklyn bred Dimitri Hadzi enjoys the unique position of Harvard's permanent artist in residence. He is a sculptor of world acclaim represented in the permanent collections of such museums at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Guggenheim and Whitney and the Hirschorn museum in Washington. Run your hand over his 64 inch bronze. "Thebes III" currently on exhibit at the Carpenter Center, and it feels alive, in an age dominated by steel fabricated sculpture. Hadzi is a determined texturalist, sculpting pieces which have a natural quality...
...might expect an artist of this stature to shy away from a teaching or administrative post--such a job could only keep him out of the studio. But since coming to Harvard in 1975, Hadzi says he has done more work than ever before...
...Hadzi works hard and fast. He always has. As a child during the Depression he shined shoes to earn cash. Working in his studio most nights until the wee hours, he averages four to six hours of sleep a night. More often than not, these work hours pay off. In 1979 the Archdiocese of Boston phoned him 10 days before the Pope was due to arrive to ask him to sculpt the processional crucifix. The artist did it in seven...
Since then, Hadzi's laurels have accrued. Last month, he was inducted as one of the 250 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an honor which the artist jokingly attributes to a blessing from the Archdiocese...
Born in New York to parents of Greek origin, Hadzi led a double childhood, attending two schools a day First there was regular public school in Brooklyn's Park Slope area. Afterwards, from four to six in the afternoon, while most boys were playing stickball, Hadzi attended a special Greek school. This triggered his imagination, he says. As a result, while his work is clearly grounded in American Abstract Expressionism. Hadzi's concerns have been classical. A romantic and a traditionalist, he has devoted most of in career to mastering the ancient technique of bronze cast...