2016-04-08 0835 Paul DiPasquale at his exhibition Ears at art6 in Richmond

Paul DiPasquale is a sculptor living and working in

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. He has designed several public sculptures in Virginia, including the

Arthur Ashe Monument The Arthur Ashe Monument is a bronze sculpture by Paul DiPasquale installed along Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue. The statue depicts tennis player Arthur Ashe, who was born, raised and buried in Richmond. Description The statue is situated ...

on Richmond's

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and '' King Neptune'' on

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's boardwalk.

Education

DiPasquale's undergraduate degree was in the field of sociology with an art minor at the

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. He trained at the

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and received his

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in sculpture from

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in 1977. He has been associated as an instructor, resident artist, or visiting artist at

Northern Virginia Community College Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC; informally known as NOVA) is a public community college composed of six campuses and four centers in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Northern Virginia Community College is the third-la ...

Maryland Institute The Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is a private art and design college in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1826 as the Maryland Institute for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts, making it one of the oldest art colleges in the ...

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, International City of the Arts in Paris,

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and

Career

DiPasquale's studio is located at his home in

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. DiPasquale was twice a visiting sculptor at the

. In 2012, DiPasquale presented an exhibition, ''Ears'', at art6 Gallery. He also participated in an event presented by Gasa Gasa, a Freret Street club in

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. In Richmond, he participated in gallery exhibitions at Art6 and

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Public works

DiPasquale created his ''Connecticut'' statue, a 10 foot tall, 25 foot wide depiction of a Native American, for a

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liquor store, but installation was blocked by a dispute within the family that owned the store. It was later leased to

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, who installed it at their

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showroom in 1983, where it remained for eight months. In 1985, the statue was installed in Richmond's The Diamond, home stadium of the

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. Following that team's move to Georgia in 2008, the statue was moved to the

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building in

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. ''Headman'', a fiberglass depiction of an African American canal boatman, was installed on

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in 1988. In May of the following year, the statue went missing; that October, it was found with hundreds of bullet holes. A replacement, cast in bronze, would later be installed. DiPasquale received permission to design a monument for Richmond-born tennis player

Arthur Ashe Arthur Robert Ashe Jr. (July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993) was an American professional tennis player who won three Grand Slam singles titles. He started to play tennis at six years old. He was the first black player selected to the Unite ...

shortly before Ashe's 1993 death. The

was installed on

in 1996, to significant controversy. '' King Neptune'', a depiction of the

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, was designed in 2003 for

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