In Part Two Walter Dusenbery continues his biography in early 1970s as emerging artist in the New York Gallery scene with exhibitions at Bonino Gallery and Patricia Hamilton Gallery.
These successes led to inclusion of his sculptures in many important art collections as well as large public sculpture commissions such as the Fulton County Atrium at Atlanta, Georgia.
After completing this large installation Dusenbery became aware of a major decline in the New York art market due to the economic downturn of early 1990s.
Walter Dusenbery then closed down his long term studio at Pietrasanta, Italy to reduce costs while relocating with his family to Cooperstown in Upstate New York.
Feeling displaced from the tremendous Italian stone carving studios Walter then approached Seward Johnson, Jr. with a funding request to build a state of the art stone carving studio in America. This manifested into the Johnson Atelier Stone Division with Walter Dusenbery as Director.
Walter explains the many digital technology challenges that he globally navigated for new solutions during the first few years of the Stone Division to realize his Vision. In the process Walter also became aware of various new ways of thinking through the digital manufacture of stone sculptures by a new generation of Digital Sculptors such as Barry X. Ball, Jon Isherwood, and Robert Michael Smith.
This video has been developed and produced by "Digital Sculptor LLC" based upon research by Robert Michael Smith specifically to document the History of Digital Sculpture through a series of personal interviews with significant pioneers of Digital Sculpture.
Videographer for the interview was Sean Claffey with Video Editing by Cieulien Tong.