Brian Maughan

A resident of North Walnut Street in Yellow Springs, Ohio since 2006, Maughan still spends much time working in New York City, where he moved from San Francisco in 1968. He was born in Calgary, Alberta and grew up in the Canadian oil fields until the age of ten. His parents then moved to western Montana. At about the age of 20, Maughan hitchhiked around Europe. In that year, in Florence, Italy, he saw Michelangelo's David.

"David bowled me over," he says. "At that moment my life's direction was set. I was about sculpture."

Back in the U.S., he attended the San Francisco Art Institute, where he earned a BFA in 1966 and an MFA in 1968. He has since worked in various media, but sculpture has dominated his efforts. In the last 20 years he has worked principally in ceramic. The majority of this output has been cast in bronze.