Kristen Visbal (born December 3, 1962) is an American sculptor living and working in Lewes, Delaware.[1] She specializes in lost-wax casting in bronze.[2]
Kristen Visbal | |
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Born | Montevideo, Uruguay | December 3, 1962
Nationality | American |
Education | Salisbury University |
Alma mater | Salisbury University |
Notable work | Fearless Girl |
Visbal was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, the daughter of American Ralph Albert and Elizabeth Krystyniak Visbal; the father was in foreign service there at the time of her birth. She attended the University of Arizona in Tucson 1980–1982 and University of Maryland 1983–1984. She is a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude at Salisbury State University of 1995.[3][2] She was an apprentice of lost wax fine art casting at Johnson Atelier Foundry, Mercerville, New Jersey, 1995–1998, and is the owner and manager of Visbal Fine Bronze Sculpture in Lewes, Delaware since 1998.
Her most prominent work of public art is Fearless Girl (2017), a 50-inch (1,300 mm) bronze figure originally installed at Bowling Green in Manhattan's Financial District, stirring much international attention and controversy, as it challenges the Charging Bull sculpture of 1989.[4] Visbal has said "The piece is pungent with Girl Power!"[1] In 2018, it was relocated to outside the New York Stock Exchange Building.[5]
Kristen Visbal was sued for taking $28,102 from the US Coast Guard Alumni Association to make an Alexander Hamilton statue but allegedly failing to produce the work by the contracted deadline.[6]
On January 3, 2020, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) sued Kristen Visbal, over issues concerning the artist's rights to sell replicas of the Fearless Girl. The court held there was no fraudulent inducement on behalf of SSGA in the formation of the contract.[7]
On May 27, 2020, in a later opinion Visbal's fourteenth affirmative defence was struck out due to a failure to meet the Bridgestone/Firestone requirements.[8]
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