Lea Vivot | |
Birth Name: | Drahomíra Hekelová |
Birth Place: | Šumperk-Horní Temenice, Czechoslovakia (Moravia) |
Field: | sculptor, graphic artist and printmaker |
Training: | Ontario College of Art, Prague, Milan, Italy and New York City, |
Lea Vivot is a Czech-born Canadian sculptor. She has studied at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto, Ontario as well as Prague, Czechoslovakia, Milan, Italy and New York City, United States. Although her main focus is sculpture, Vivot is also active in drawing and printmaking. Vivot’s over life-sized bronze sculptures are figurative and often depict families, couples, mothers, children, and other subjects of humanity. Most of her sculptures include benches, which have become her trademark.