Jud Bergeron (b. 1972, Arizona) is a Bay Area sculptor residing in San Francisco. Bergeron’s sculpture has been exhibited throughout North America, focusing on New York and San Francisco. While Bergeron works in myriad styles and materials, he generally gravitates towards permanent materials such as bronze, stainless steel and mild steel.

In Bergeron’s newest series, Paper, Plaster, Bronze, each work is created by hand through a process of cutting and fitting paper to create sculpture. They are meditations on form created through a stream of consciousness process. Using color in the paper pieces as a device to create perception of perfection; the eye sees color and the form and fills in any “mistakes.”

Once the pieces are created physically they are scanned into 3D models through a computer to remove all memory of the artist’s hand. The works are then 3D printed where perfection becomes blurred during the printing process. Each piece is sanded to remove the digital fingerprint, before creating molds using the lost wax process for bronze casting.

Through this very laborious process, Bergeron’s aim is to examine the alchemic transformation from analog to digital and back. Constantly exploring how the influence of new technology might change his work.

Bergeron has exhibited nationally with solo shows in New York, Los Angeles, Dallas and San Francisco as well as Museum shows in California and Arizona. His work has been commissioned for many large-scale public works throughout the United States including The Grand Hyatt, San Francisco, CA, UCSF Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA, UTSW Hospital, Dallas, TX, and Irvine Valley College, Irvine, CA to name a few.