Bob Bickey has been resident 3-Dimensional rock star at Antfarm Studios since November 2005.  Bob began his artist studies in Raleigh, NC where he graduated from Jesse O Sanderson High School.  Bob combined his two passions soccer and art. Bob left Raleigh to attend Brevard College, in the beautiful mountains of North Carolina.  Bob found his time was well spent in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains; he studied studio art and played soccer for Brevard’s soccer team, while enjoying the wonders that the North Carolina Mountains had to offer.  Though interested in all of the studio arts, he found himself mesmerized and challenged by the physical and mental demands that sculpture presented.  Artistic endeavors became increasingly stimulating and eventually won out over athletics.  Bob gave up collegiate sports to concentrate fully on art.  He decided to transfer to The University of Georgia’s Sculpture program, Athens, Georgia.  Athens proved to be the type of city that Bob was looking for at the time, a city full of great life and vitality.  The “Athens” energy was contagious.  Bob spent eleven years in Athens in many pursuits including obtaining his BFA in sculpture, working as the assistant manager of a local landmark bar, learning historic renovation, and developing his first sculpture studio.  Bob found him self full of great life experiences yet still hungry for artistic growth.  In 2003 Bob entered Clemson University’s MFA program to study sculpture and discover the joy and challenge of teaching fine art.  While seeking the successful completion of his Master’s, Bob was the instructor of record for Three Dimensional Foundations and Beginning Sculpture.

After a long hiatus, Bob returned to Raleigh in September of 2005 to pursue sculpture and teaching full time.  Bob is represented by Glance Gallery in Raleigh and has shown his work form Louisiana to Massachusetts.

Bickey’s work explores issues of sexuality and intimacy as related to the illusion of power and control.  Specific use of materials and their arrangement is a crucial component to his work.  Bob’s sculptures ask his audience to take accountability for their own views of beauty and sexuality.  A key conceptual component to understanding the work is being able to navigate the tremendous dialectical pressures present in a society founded on Puritanical values and a blitzkrieg of media driven images prophesizing false fulfillment.   

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