Michael Alfano | Figurative and surrealistic sculptures

American sculptor Michael Alfano has been sculpting for over fifteen years. A native of New York, he now lives and works in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. His major influences are Salvador Dali, Jo Davidson, and Jean-Antoine Houdon, as well as Buddhist, Taoist, Sufi and other eastern philosophy and literature. He first studied at the Art Students League of New York, with an emphasis on life-size sculpture from the model. His formal education continued at Boston University and was augmented by internships with several prominent sculptors.

"The best art engages, generates discussion, and brings about change. Infusing the everyday with the surreal, my art compels viewers to think and experience, to understand life more fully". Michael Alfano

Holocaust Monument 2001, Jericho Jewish Center, Jericho, Long Island, New York (USA). Three figures 120% life size. "The man points to a brighter future. The woman looks back in horror, portraying the lost past. Leading them, the child pulls the woman from the past to the future".