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William Victor Arbogast, born in 1953, William Victor Arbogast in Redwood City, California, is a American abstract artist and sculptor residing in Phoenix, Arizona. His education was at Foothill Junior College, Los Altos; Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico; the Coastal School of Deep Sea Diving, Oakland, California, and Laney College in Oakland. He owned and operated a creative metal fabrication studio. while also sculpting and painting his own works.

Victor Arbogast is known for his welded metal sculpture, paintings, and ceramics. His early work was more organic with the metals left textured and natural. Gradually his style changed. An extensive background in welding and structural steel combined with his artistic development and the high tech boom of Silicon Valley influenced Arbogast's work to include more paint and complex metals such as stainless steel and titanium. Since Arbogast's move out of Silicon Valley, his interest in experimenting with exotic mixed media, color, and abstraction continues.

Arbogast's sculpture have been exhibited worldwide including being selected for the U.S. Embassy in Muscat, Oman to Arizona State University, to the International Traveling Exhibition arranged by the University of Hawaii. His work is part of a permanent collection in the Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia Sterling Winthrop Collection, Willakenzie Winery of Oregon, and Kaiser Hospital of Redwood City, California. Greenpeace International commissioned Arbogast to build an eigfhteen foot stainless steel monument that was erected on Ross Island, Antarctica.