Kate Brockman, Robie Driscoll, Eric Wagner, Justin Jetty, Sara Walker, Pavel Efremoff, Jamaal Brown, Eddie Rodriguez, James Lyon, Rose Davis, Shane and Julia Stratton

Stratton Sculpture Studios LLC

We are Philadelphia-based sculptors specializing in bronze casting, mold making, modeling and enlarging. Our boutique-style studios and foundry attract artists who seek experienced craftsmanship and continuity throughout the entire process. We make sculpture of every scale in our 11,000-square-foot building in North East Philadelphia. We melt four-hundred-fifty-pounds of bronze per pour, and can assemble large-scale work up to 25’ in height.

Shane and Julia Stratton founded Stratton Sculpture Studios LLC twenty-five years ago and continue to complete projects with their own hands, working with a group of skilled craftspeople to assist them. This allows the Studios crew to stay with a piece throughout the entire process. We take on fewer projects than our competitors, and believe that our focused approach translates into a more masterful result, often with a faster turn-around time.

Highlights include:

  • Enlarging and casting five large-scale bonze sculptures for the Venice Biennial 2022

  • Bronze sculptures for Simone Leigh’s solo Hirshhorn exhibition 2023

  • Enlarging & casting Simone Leigh’s 16’ Brick House, New York High Line Plinth

  • Historical bronze reproduction from original of early American sculptor William Rush’s Nymph and Bittern for the Philadelphia Art Museum

  • Clay Modeling Gift Horse, Hans Haacke’s 14’ bronze horse skeleton for London's Fourth Plinth

  • Receiving the 2019 Preservation Achievement Award in conjunction with the Fairmount Park Conservancy

  • Clay modeling with artist & casting two 7’ bronze sculptures for Simone Leigh’s Loophole of Retreat at the Guggenheim Museum

  • Designing, fabricating & installing a 15' found-object sculpture for the Pig Iron Theater Company

  • Mold making & bronze casting Steve Layne’s 10’ Joe Frazier monument for Philadelphia’s Xfinity Center

  • Enlarging & fabricating Sam Maitin’s 12.5’ painted aluminum sculpture for the Woodmere Art Museum

  • Bronze casting for Matthew Barney's Cremaster installation at the Guggenheim Museum

  • Clay modeling with artist & casting Simone Leigh’s bronze sculptures for the 2019 Whitney Biennial

 

Stratton Sculpture Studios LLC have produced work for many individual sculptors and institutions including the Guggenheim Museum, Venice Biennial, Whitney Museum, Metropolitian Museum of Art, MoMA, Philadelphia Museum of Art, New York High Line, Hirschhorn Museum, LACMA, California African American Museum, Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum, The Fabric Workshop, Newark Liberty Museum, Material Conservation Company, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Woodmere Art Museum, Kimmel Center, Berman Museum, ICA Boston, Paula Cooper Gallery, Jack Shainman Gallery, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, Laurel Gitlen Gallery, Anthony Meier Gallery, Tom Otterness, Simone Leigh, Janine Antoni, Sherrie Levine, Hans Haacke, Yoan Capote, Virginia Overton, Julia Phillips, Radcliffe Bailey, Brandon Ndife, and Matthew Barney.

We have done sculpture conservation and patination work on the collections of Lehigh University, Ursinus College, Curtis Institute of Music, Venice Biennial, New York High Line, Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul, Michener Art Museum, Daylesford Abbey, Philadelphia Zoo, and Grounds for Sculpture.

Our Studios have been featured in the New York Times, New Yorker, CBS This Morning, and Vogue Magazine.