As with Richard MacDonald’s entire Cirque series, Transcendance has many layers of metaphor and meaning to challenge and intrigue viewers. Transcendance is a striking example of Richard MacDonald’s rare gift for capturing the power and vigor of an athlete. Richard MacDonald has taken this intensely dramatic moment and given it a resonant new meaning: this is the ultimate pose to demonstrate the strength of will and determination that gives all our actions strength. Transcendance is an eloquent statement about the human spirit.

Warm, silvery, and rare, the platinum patina of this distinctive series by Richard MacDonald creates a play of light that heightens our sense of the underlying sculpted form.  Contemporary in conception and limited to editions of only eight, with some works featured as one-of-a-kind, this body of work reveals the essential beauty of the human form.  As mercurial as human nature itself, light glances off the platinum creating dramatic shadows that seem to strengthen form and enhance the sense of life captured by the artist.