Famous Trumpeter, Herb Alpert, Exhibits Totems at Ace Gallery

BEVERLY HILLS, CA.- Totems have pan-cultural associations throughout diverse cultures around the world, and these vertical forms have been used throughout history as tribal talismans representative of the spirit world and genealogies, ancestors and documenting societies. Herb Alpert, in his Black Totem series, has focused on this language of sculpture for the past 20 years and addresses this geneaology in his Black Totem sculptures. Alpert’s process for creating these sculptures is manually intensive. He works with wet clay first, molding [...]