Richard Dieterich grew up in Boulder, Colorado. He received his B.A. in Art History from the American University of Paris with a concentration on African Art and worked in African Art galleries in Paris and New York.
Dietrich's background is an eclectic one. He has worked as a Master Brewer, and as a Green Builder. For the past two decades he has lived and worked in Northern California.
Dieterich sculpts in a cold-cast process, combining a mixture of recycled atomized metal powders with a hard matrix material, allowing in-studio casting without the use of a foundry. This process gives him total control from original to molds to patinaed finishes. Dieterich uses embedded river rock, steel fragments & found objects in some pieces, and recycled steel for his mounts.
As an artist, Dieterich is influenced by Wabi Sabi philosophy. As an environmentally conscious sculptor, he works to keep his process and results close to nature.