Eugene Daub: monumental sculptor
From conception to completion Sculptor Eugene Daub shows us the process behind his monumental work by Bondo Wyszpolski In their pursuit of being able to commission a bronze statue of the late writer Charles Bukowski, Angela Romero and others from the San Pedro Heritage Museum came knocking at the studio door of Eugene Daub. Although the pandemic has impeded the momentum, Daub at first completed a few drawings and then, later, offered to make a portrait medal, pro bono, replicas of which could be sold to help raise money for the eventual statue, which would go towards the 100 grand that the work would cost. Bukowski himself would probably have said that it’s money better spent at the racetrack, but luckily he didn’t have a say in the matter. And then there’s Linda Grimes, with one active foot in the San Pedro arts community and another up at the Palos Verdes Art Center, who became the liaison that led to Daub being handed a kind of in-depth, behind-the-scenes exhibition that opens on Sept. 25. “At the time,” Grimes says via email, “we were trying to bring a Bukowski exhibit to PVAC, and Gene was working on a medallion and eventually a sculpture to commemorate him.” And so, armed…
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